Resilience Comes from Slack and Variety, Which Optimising for Efficiency Removes
The resilience-versus-efficiency claim reserved to lev-. Rests on lev-buffer-size-as-a-lever (slack is buffer generalised to shocks you did not plan for) and shares its variety requirement with lev-self-organisation-is-the-power-to-change-structure. Related prod Ideas are linked as enrichment, not reused: Ecological Resilience and Economic Resilience to Systemic Shocks are domain instances the fence keeps out, Threat-Agnostic Resilience Principles for Critical Infrastructure Systems is a design method, and Flow-Kick Dynamical Systems is the differential-equation treatment.
Balancing Efficiency and Resiliency in Complex Systems
Sustainable complex systems must balance efficiency with resiliency rather than optimizing for efficiency alone, since insights from complexity science show that hyper-efficient systems (e.g., financ…