It's such a helpful framing when you're following an interest and no one--not even you--can see where it's headed. It's almost exciting too in that you can ask yourself, "ooo where will this be useful in my future.'
Loved this — and it landed at exactly the right moment for me.
Are you familiar with the work of Italian sociologist Ulisse di Corpo and his concept of syntropy?
Quick GPT explainer:
'Entropy is the tendency of systems to drift toward disorder and energy dispersal over time. Syntropy is essentially the opposite framing — a tendency toward increasing order, coherence, and organisation. Where entropy describes “things fall apart unless you add energy,” syntropy points to “under the right conditions, things can self-organise into more structured, life-like patterns...
Essentially Ulisse framed Syntropy as a guiding energy arriving from the future, as opposed to entrophy, a decaying energy acting in the past.
He did a fantastic pod with Tom Morgan of Leading edge - well worth your time if your not familiar with his work :)
Thank you, Mark! Happy to hear it landed at the right moment for you.
I've never come across the idea of Syntropy, sounds interesting. I'm quite tapped into the ideas that Tom writes about so I'm excited to check out it. I'm particularly interested in what Ulisse di Corpo proposes those "right conditions," are that allows things to naturally self-organize in such a manner.
Didn't expect this take. 'You can't connect the dots looking forward' is so tru.
It's such a helpful framing when you're following an interest and no one--not even you--can see where it's headed. It's almost exciting too in that you can ask yourself, "ooo where will this be useful in my future.'
Loved this — and it landed at exactly the right moment for me.
Are you familiar with the work of Italian sociologist Ulisse di Corpo and his concept of syntropy?
Quick GPT explainer:
'Entropy is the tendency of systems to drift toward disorder and energy dispersal over time. Syntropy is essentially the opposite framing — a tendency toward increasing order, coherence, and organisation. Where entropy describes “things fall apart unless you add energy,” syntropy points to “under the right conditions, things can self-organise into more structured, life-like patterns...
Essentially Ulisse framed Syntropy as a guiding energy arriving from the future, as opposed to entrophy, a decaying energy acting in the past.
He did a fantastic pod with Tom Morgan of Leading edge - well worth your time if your not familiar with his work :)
https://open.spotify.com/episode/66rmFw6gzQVQs1klCT06P3
Thank you, Mark! Happy to hear it landed at the right moment for you.
I've never come across the idea of Syntropy, sounds interesting. I'm quite tapped into the ideas that Tom writes about so I'm excited to check out it. I'm particularly interested in what Ulisse di Corpo proposes those "right conditions," are that allows things to naturally self-organize in such a manner.
Thanks for sharing!