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Josh’s vocation is to understand how people and their environments maintain vitality and thrive on this planet. As an undergraduate, he studied environmental science and physical chemistry at UCSB. Not convinced that a strict science career would be the best way to understand how complex...
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by Josh Bacigalupi • February 22, 2017
To learn is a paradox. We must perceive not just many distinct things, but their interrelations, two distinct modes of understanding Complexity. Adaptive Work is how we get from one state of Complexity to a higher state by leveraging the Paradox of Understanding.
by Josh Bacigalupi • September 26, 2016
Complexity, like Ambiguity, is an intrinsic attribute of reality. By developing a process to engage it, we intend to leverage it to increasingly expand our impact as a team-based process.
by Josh Bacigalupi • June 9, 2015
Ambiguity is often considered a negative state, but any compelling work of art or design has an element of ambiguity. Sometimes, contradictory creations intrigue us because this is reality.
