Simplexity: Why Simple Things Become Complex (and How Complex Things Can Be Made Simple) Audiobook
Simplexity: Why Simple Things Become Complex (and How Complex Things Can Be Made Simple) Audiobook
- Holter Graham
- Hachette Book Group USA
- 2008-06-03
- 8 h 45 min
Summary:
‘Using real world examples, such as for example traffic flow, politics and baby linguistics, the writer makes the theories of ‘simplexity’ accessible towards the layperson…Kluger makes organic research seem simple.’
–Kirkus’Kluger makes today’s world comprehensible…his astonishing discoveries need no exaggeration..[his] results will probably incite controversy, confirming his contention that explaining simplicity and complexity is certainly not as straightforward since it seems.’
–Publishers Weekly’Simplexity about Simplexity: Why Simple Factors Become Organic (and How Complex Things COULD BE Made Simple) .is a report of individual behavior, and just how we perceive things and events, and how our perception frequently causes us to create wrong assumptions also to perceive simplicity (or difficulty) where it does not exist, The book is sure to be a deserved hit among the ever-growing Freakonomics masses.’
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Why do bad teams win so many gamesComplexity, as any scientist will tell you, is a slippery idea. Points that seem challenging can be astoundingly simple; things that seem simple could be dizzyingly complex. A houseplant could be even more intricate than a manufacturing facility. A colony of garden ants could be more complicated than a community of people. A sentence may be richer than a book, a couplet more difficult than a tune.These and additional paradoxes are driving a whole new science–simplexity–that is redefining how exactly we look at the world and using that brand-new view to boost our lives in fields as diverse seeing that economics, biology, cosmology, chemistry, psychology, politics, child development, the arts, and even more. Seen through the zoom lens of this unexpected fresh science, the globe becomes a sensitive place filled up with predictable patterns–patterns we frequently fail to see as we’re time and again fooled by our instincts, by our dread, by the size of things, and even by their beauty.In Simplexity, Period mature writer Jeffrey Kluger displays how a taking in straw can save a large number of lives; what sort of million cars can be on the roads but just a few hundred of these can lead to gridlock; how investors behave like atoms; how arithmetic governs abstract artwork and physics drives jazz; why swatting a TV indeed helps it be are better. As simplexity moves from the study lab into popular consciousness it will challenge our models for modern living. Jeffrey Kluger adeptly translates recently evolving theory right into a delightful theory of everything that may have you rethinking the guidelines of business, family members, art–your world.