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Catataxis
What is Catataxis?
Catataxis – the Book
Catatactic Levels
Systemic risk & catataxic shift
Categorisation destroys information
The act of categorising something removes it from its context and the loss of this contextual information can lead to major failure in the future – like the global financial crisis
Complexity requires simplicity
A complex economy requires division of labour. The more specialised each individual becomes the more complexity can evolve in the group as a whole. Single cell organisms can only evolve into complex multicellular creatures if cells become specialised – each doing one particular simple task
Order requires Chaos
Order at a higher level requires disorder beneath it. This is the opposite of the maxim “as above, so below”. Functioning markets need robust disagreement between buyers and sellers. Market crashes only happen when everyone has the same (negative) opinion.
More of the same is different
A quantitative change becomes a qualitative change in the end. This is sometimes expressed as ‘quantity has a quality all its own’ or more simply ‘more of the same is different’
Bolt from the Blue
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The Catataxic baguette
General McChrystal’s catataxic blunder
If you build it they won’t come
How Microsoft’s management killed innovation
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