I loved this note. I am always one for using universal metaphors, example how the universe has a balance between chaos and control, as does the natural environment. Humans as a species, in their attempt to find greater comfort, have sought greater control. At first over the environment and of late over their lives. We derisk the future. We forecast potential upsides and downsides.

We put systems and processes in place, and then we second and triple guess what could go wrong, and build redundancies to prevent them.

And in doing all this, we lose malleability, we lose the balance between the soft and the hard, the yin and the yang. Between being nurturing and  firm, to controlling and severe.

The developed world is an example of this kind of thinking, the undeveloped nations on the other hand, continue to retain a bit of their chaos and mayhem. As a result, their ability to bounce back from unforeseen crises is far superior. Their ability to compete, flex, rapidly change direction is far superior today, to that of the developed world.

While the developed world is looking through the manual to find the right response, the undeveloped world (which has no manuals) is responding.

Thanks for putting this up. It made me think!