TVO's great series Big Ideas has an excellent talk this week by journalist David Brooks entitled How Success Happens. The talk is based upon the research he did for his book The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character and Achievement. One of the things he mentions in the talk is Karl Popper's continuum of predictability ranging from clouds to clocks. One of the topics that EWB devote a lot of time is the same notion of being able to distinguish between complex and complicated things. Clouds are very complex and hard to predict; clocks can be very complicated, but ultimately they are extremely predictable.
