How to Build Systems Like Nature (for Business)
🤝 Your team not maximizing Claude? I run 1:1 and team AI workshops for companies doing $10M+ per year: https://aibuilder.academy/yt/XQWhJsXu0sY After 10 years of studying Nature, here are the 7 principles I've found most helpful as an entrepreneur. 📰 Read more: https://medium.com/@shawhin/how-to-build-systems-like-mother-nature-cd898a83f103 Resources [1] Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature by Janine M. Benyus [2] Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb [3] The Nature of Business: Redesigning for Resilience by Giles Hutchins [4] Principles by Ray Dalio [5] The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins [6] Thinking in Systems: A Primer by Donella H. Meadows [7] Scale: The Universal Laws of Life, Growth, and Death in Organisms, Cities, and Companies by Geoffrey West Introduction - 0:00 Background - 0:24 Principle 1: Diversity - 1:04 Principle 2: Redundancy - 3:16 Principle 3: Degeneracy - 4:40 Principle 4: Recycle - 6:21 Principle 5: Iteration - 8:35 Principle 6: Hierarchy - 10:54 Principle 7: Symmetry - 13:28
