A podcast about complex systems in practice.
Emergent
Problems.
Emergent Problems is a podcast about the people who study, build, organize, and create within complex systems.
What makes a problem emergent?
Some problems only become visible when the parts are considered together...
Emergent
Produced by interactions between parts of a system, rather than by any one part alone.
Problem
A condition whose causes, consequences, or possible solutions are distributed across the system in which it occurs.
Conway's game of life
Local rules allow and constrain complex global behavior.
People navigating complex systems face similar constraints; local knowledge, partial perspectives, and problems unfolding at larger scales.