Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos
, subject: Complex adaptive systems, nonlinear systems, science, economies, and markets
The systems book David surfaces through Bill Gurley's account of the one title that profoundly changed how he sees business and investing.
About the book
Moving among physics, biology, economics, and computation, the book traces how researchers used emergence, feedback, and nonlinear interaction to study systems whose behavior cannot be explained by reducing them to isolated parts.
Why read it
Best if you want the systems framework Bill Gurley says reshaped how he sees businesses, markets, opportunities, and investments.
Key themes
- Business is a complex adaptive system
- Think in interacting variables
Evidence and original sources
This record is supported by 1 public evidence rows linked to original Founders episodes.
- Charlie Munger (the Tao of Charlie Munger) — David identifies Complexity as Bill Gurley's single favorite book and relays Gurley's explanation that its model of multivariable nonlinear systems profoundly shaped how he sees businesses, markets, opportunities, and investments.
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