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Catataxis
- What is Catataxis?
- Catataxis – the Book
- Catatactic Levels
- Systemic risk & catataxic shift
- Categorisation destroys informationThe 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 simplicityA 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 ChaosOrder 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 differentA 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’
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My hobby is cartography and I have made a number of interesting maps as shown below all of which are © John Brodie Donald. Please get in touch if you would like to have copies :

London Parish Map — Part of a map of London’s ancient parishes

The historical development of Churches in the Weald of Kent

Saxon Wolf Map — Map for the novel Saxon Wolf

A map of the lost 1916 Leigh Powder Mills in Kent

A population map scaled by population size

Land holdings of the Woodgate and Streatfield families of Chiddingstone

Part of a Chiddingstone Tithe Map of 1850