The coffee break room
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Where Complex Adaptive Systems Theory was principally developed, and where Jonathan Hare spent his time in the coffee break room talking to whoever came in for a refill — either explaining Organic Technology and Business DNA, or asking how complex adaptive systems might be generalized to the general case.
That question is the one the whole architecture eventually answers.
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Cisco's CTO, more than once — and a Santa Fe Institute regular
Open →trustee; the market-for-trust exchange'Your biggest gift to the world is eBay itself' — a market for trust, said to his face at a Santa Fe Institute trustees' dinner
Open →the tour, via the CEO's officeVelveteen Ventures principal investor, climate; Alaska Native advocate for indigenous peoples; a career in sustainability, impact ventures and climate — Al Gore, the UN, Patagonia; EP3 Sustainability Fellow
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