Kevin Kelly

Each system is trying to anticipate change in the environment. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#change #each #environment #system #trying

Everything that we are making, we are making more and more complex. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#everything #making #more #more and more

In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#environment #indistinguishable #itself #organism #sense

It has become evident that the primary lesson of the study of evolution is that all evolution is coevolution: every organism is evolving in tandem with the organisms around it. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#become #every #evident #evolution #evolving

It's generally much easier to kill an organization than to change it substantially. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#easier #generally #kill #much #organization

We are infected by our own misunderstanding of how our own minds work. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#infected #minds #misunderstanding #our #own

Much of outcomes research is a systematic attempt to exploit what is known and make it better. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#better #exploit #known #make #much

One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#any #functions #future #organism #organization

Organisms by their design are not made to adapt too far. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#design #far #made #organisms #their

Organizations get invested into a particular product. And sometimes the best thing is to stop making that product, even though it's profitable, because it has optimized at a local peak. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#best #even #get #into #invested