This one is very eerie. (11/X)

This one really hits hard. Please read it in full. The fatigue that many feel towards politics sounds to me pretty much like his description. (9/X)

I will never completely hate the other platform, because it gave us moments like this one👇 it‘s so surreal that these two major leaders (of a nuclear power and a NATO-member respectively) would engage in such a catty fight on a micro-blogging website.

I don’t know why this little sibling of the butterfly effect isn’t better known. It‘s way more fascinating. Perhaps it‘s missing a poetic name. I propose the funnel effect, as it seems to me to illustrate the property very well: Independently of the starting point, things end up at the same place.

Another example of this carcinisation, wherein the crab form has evolved multiple times independently. Similar can actually be said of trees! They are not all descendants of one ancestral tree. Nature re-„invented“ many things several times. And here‘s what blows my mind:

One of my favorite system theory facts is that the butterfly effect has a counterpart. Instead of a small difference in initial conditions having a big effect, things arrive at the same state independently of initial conditions. The best example being convergent evolution in marsupials.

We need to do more systems thinking. It's so interesting and relevant to just about everything. I don't understand how people think everyone needs to learn how to code but we don't even get taught the most basic principles of (Complex) Systems Theory.

Many European countries introduced proportional representation within a really short timeframe. This table is from a study that tries to explain why.

(Electoral System Reform in Early Democratisers. Philipp M. Rottwilm, St. Cross College, University of Oxford)