Vervaekes series is great. I think about this a lot. In my head I call it “conditions of emergence”.
You can’t make things happen by directly focusing on them in the specific, you need to create the environment for them to emerge.
Anything natural requires this. It’s also the only way to cultivate what is authentic behaviour. Create the conditions of sincerity & people will emerge as they are. This is also the easiest way to understand any behavioural outcome from an existing system, to study the conditions/ space/ environment it creates. It also speak a lot to Christopher Alexander’s work on why the way physical spaces are built (cities, buildings, homes etc)
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*Matter - why how physical spaces are built matter
I love this, the metaphor of growing things is very telling. If you want any force beyond you to change, you have to cultivate it, not impose yourself on it.
A Pattern Language is already on my list, but I wanted to ask what your favorite Christopher Alexander book is?