Coleman McCormick

Topic / emergence

3 posts
February 6, 2024 • #

Evolution is a roiling mess of substance and interaction. Order emerges from the stew. Fitness allowing one collection of chemicals to outlast another.

A true complex system is confounding and inscrutable, bucking attempts to make it legible, controllable. “Greatness cannot be planned”.

When to Design for Emergence

October 14, 2022 • #

The long-tail of user problems means we need tools that adapt and extend to their unpredicted needs we can't design explicitly for.