Make Complexity Navigable

Organize Complexity

is a tool rather than a representation of truth.

Modeling, he argued, is a tool, not a declaration of truth' (Tsing 2005:105).

is best when it is as simple as it can be but no simpler.

A model should be as simple as it can be but no simpler. (Albert Einstein)

is necessarily a model of equilibrium. Real societies can never be in equilibrium.

while conceptual models of society are necessarily models of equilibrium systems, real societies can never be in equilibrium' (Leach 1964:4)

is the girl who shapes her career around a good figure.

A model is the girl who shapes her career around a good figure.

All models are wrong, but some are useful

Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful.

is an important methodological tool --- anything is easy if you can assimilate it to your collection of models.

Anything is easy if you can assimilate it to your collection of models.

has that vacant look because they aren't allowed to stare back.