Systems: Dualities

Chaotic Doesnt Mean Random — Chaos is deterministic. Randomness isn't. They look similar but behave differently.
Context Over Content — In category theory, the relations between things matter more than the things themselves.
Entropy vs Energy — Energy does the work. Entropy eats the order.
Holism vs Reductionism — Understand the whole, or break it into parts. Both are incomplete.
Linear vs Non-Linear — Doubling the input doesn't always double the output.
Model vs Reality — Your map is not the territory.
Profit vs Rent — Profit is earned by creating value. Rent is extracted by holding a position.
Signal vs Noise — Data has two parts: what matters, and what distracts from what matters.

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Dualities in other domains: Leadership · Product