Take a deeper look

The lens we look through changes what we see. It's easy to think a simple and familiar underlying process is at work or fundamental truth is at the root and that we are seeing part of it or its results.While something is certainly underneath what we see, I think we are foolish to reduce it to something simple, familiar and fundamental. After all, when we think about it we know that what we see is really the result of a phenomenally complex system or, better stated, the interaction of phenomenally complex systems. Indeed, we can see the effects or results of these systems - a flower, a stock market drop, an entrepreneurial opportunity - but it is impossible to fully grasp or describe the system and how it works. Only when we isolate parts or pieces can we see dimly lit clues about how it works - mapping DNA to explain the human body, a stock price prediction model that poorly fits reality, volumes of market data that indicate changing consumer preference.