What happens when we stop intervening? This piece explores how context isn’t passive but actively shapes behavior and outcomes. Less control doesn’t create chaos, it often allows systems to reorganize into stronger, more coherent patterns. ivovanderwal.substack.com/p/what-conte...

Optimization sounds like care and responsibility. But unknowingly, it changes how we see things, not what we do.

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Organic

A moment recorded while working with Influence Fields.
Changing the surface changes the system, not gradually, but structurally.

What you see is not a simulation of reality,
but a way of making dynamics visible.

Getting everyone to look in the same direction
is the fastest way to stop seeing anything new.

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I’m not interested in answers.
I’m interested in why our best answers keep failing

A field, not a message