One way to begin understanding complex systems is by describing them in detail: mapping out their parts, their multiple interactions, and how they change through time. Complex systems are often complicated—that is, they have many moving parts that can be hard to identify and define. But the overriding feature of complex systems is that they…

I was rooting through some Hypothes.is annotations that had surfaced in my Readwise feed and discovered this from Joe Dillon’s 2016 blog post.. This was my way towards analyzing text, image, and text with image. I use a model for analysis that goes like this: What is the “text”? What is the context? What is…