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Complexity, by M. Mitchell Waldrop. His favorite paper to pass out was “How Complex Systems Fail,” an eighteen-bullet-point summary by Richard I. Cook, now a professor of health care systems safety in Sweden. (Bullet Point #6: Catastrophe is always just around the corner.) “People think that complex is an advanced state of complicated,” said Zoran. “It’s not. A car key is simple. A car is complicated. A car in traffic is complex.”
“I know what to do when things are exploding around me,” he later said. “But when nothing is exploding, the overthinking comes into play.”
He could have considered himself a tragedy. And he didn’t.”
