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@daveg Maybe you’ll find some interesting stuff in François Roddier’s work : youtube.com/watch?v=5-qap1… could be a starter… Or a book of his : De la thermodynamique à l’économie (2018). Other pointers : francois-roddier.fr

Economic Entropy: A Mathematical Model of Value Flow in Economics link.medium.com/m04wTl2ZECb

@dr_c0d3 Indeed ! Trying to use Japanese words in English context with a French iPhone can be a pain 🥖

@perrick Auto correct ?

@StefanoZorzi @daveg And for "starting with small things", you're missing the competition part : you need some form of conflict / co-operation / collaboration (see @swardley or twitter.com/swardley/statu… for details) to drive up quality, quantity and other dimensions.

@StefanoZorzi @daveg I wouldn't be so sure about "cultural production" : we've done it for a long time and with great success without much economic specialization (think Aboriginal Art or Lascaux for example).

Hypothesis: Greece was one of the cradles of civilization because of the effects on islands on what could be described as economic entropy. Here’s why: Energy flows across a temperature gradient towards higher entropy. Money flows across a value perception gradient (I perceive enough value to pay so that you will sell so you perceive less value and the traded material changes hands) towards higher ‘economic entropy’. Islands (or lakes for fish) create species diversity through isolation and genetic drift. But they also do the same for economic specialization and I believe this may be what happened in the Greek islands and later in the wider Mediterranean. The islands create isolated, specialist production of tradable goods.

@daveg I would bet it’s more of a « city » effect compared to an « island » effect for Greece early surge…

@daveg I remember reading (but where) you need multiple cities to get growth : one in isolation will give you nothing. Hence Italian cities (Florence, Milan, Pisa, Sienna, Genova) in XII - XV; American cities (New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Minneapolis, Pittsburgh, Detroit) in XIX.

@JeremiEden @Francois_Ruffin @PopulusRe @Peter_Turchin especially when you discover that @FrancoisRuffin went to the same school as #Macron and is now at the opposite end in the french political spectrum : you can't have better "elite" and "counter-elite" in France right now...

@JeremiEden @Francois_Ruffin @PopulusRe I’m pretty sure @Peter_Turchin would love to know @Francois_Ruffin is reading his books 📖

C'est sans précédent : la consommation alimentaire des ménages n'a jamais autant chuté depuis 1980. C'est sans précédent : les plus grandes fortunes accumulent 1170 milliards d'euros. 500 personnes pèsent 45% du PIB. Emmanuel Macron laisse faire le gavage des uns sur le rationnement des autres.

@dr_c0d3 @dianamontalion The books themselves are not dangerous off course… But there are lots and lots of them, covering a lot of concepts (andon, just-in-time, quality, jidoka, kaizen, to name just a few) : they could become a large part of your reading time 😂

@perrick @dianamontalion Careful in what sense? Some books could be dangerous? In the particular case I learnt something useful and found the book very practical and full of examples

Very honoured by the follow @dianamontalion :) Here's a book I found enlightening about the A3 practice which your workshop reminded me of: amazon.com/Understanding-…

@nico_dufrene J'ai découvert que vous animiez une conférence à Lille sur "la monnaie et la transition écologique"... Dommage que je ne puisse pas venir, mais peut-être trouverez vous ce projet de monnaie locale inter-entreprise intéressant => @mlml_fr

@swardley when a supply chain is weaponised : an analysis from a French think tank.

@xporte Question au passage : lecteur et auditeur régulier de @longnow (et de @stewartbrand en particulier), j’ai été plutôt surpris de la définition du « longtermisme » dans cette émission, surtout sur le côté eugéniste. Je veux bien un lien pour éclaircir ma lanterne.

@xporte Encore une superbe émission qui croise le chercheur et la « vraie vie ». Merci 🙏

Nouvel épisode du Code a changé. Où on comprend comment la Silicon Valley arrive à construire des services que le monde entier adopte.

@swardley : food for thoughts while studying China 🇨🇳 and the USA 🇺🇸.

@ApresLaBiere @Peter_Turchin Un début de réponse se trouve dans cette vidéo : m.youtube.com/watch?v=oAUD1g… J’y décèle aussi un prochain ouvrage sur la question 🇺🇸

Wondering how a @Peter_Turchin or a Emmanuel Todd would interpret that one ? source : healthsystemtracker.org/indicator/heal…

@daveg It could even be called "peelable body paints" : #index02" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">toyotatimes.jp/en/spotlights/…

@daveg I’m pretty sure we’ll get there one day : exploretoyota.com/accessories/cl…

Imagine if respraying a car on trade in was standard. We’d have individual custom patterns as standard as they wouldn’t affect resale value.

@tariqkrim À lire en creux avec la réponse de Toyota : toyotatimes.jp/en/toyota_news…

En même temps voter notre dépendance totale à la Chine est un sujet qui doit faire débat.

@LauPaSat_pl It took a bit more time than anticipated since youtube-dl (the tool I was relying on) seems to be on the way out. We did a "hot swap" to yt-dlp and now everything should be back to normal.

@LauPaSat_pl Effectively : Google changed its algorithm somewhere… I’ll try to track it down over the weekend 🤞