Chris Gondek wrote:
… Santa Fe Institute … Scott Page was one of the people I met and he mentioned that he had just finished a book for Princeton on diversity.
The work on diversity and complexity that is done at both Michigan and Santa Fe is pretty mind-boggling. This book is a very accessible way to learn about how diversity can work and, more importantly, how to get out of thinking of diversity as a politically correct concept and begin to think of diversity as an extremely powerful problem solving tool.
Invisible Handwriting: A podcaster’s blog: Show Notes for Episode 47, Scott Page “The Difference”
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Does diversity trump ability? Sometimes.
Scott Page is External Faculty at the Santa Fe Institute and a professor of complex systems, political science, and economics at the University of Michigan.
I’ve ordered the book!
In addition, I’ve also found an interesting review by Stephen Kinsella of Complex Adaptive Systems: An Introduction to Computational Models of Social Life and have ordered that book.