Yes, I love the essay you mention. Well, not understanding complex systems is ok when you are designing bridges. But first order approximation fails horribly w

Yes, I love the essay you mention. Well, not understanding complex systems is ok when you are designing bridges. But first order approximation fails horribly while designing policies. As a simple example, Indian subcontinent where people aggregated in clusters over many thousand years got divided into India and Pakistan via a simple almost linear boundary. Result: hundreds of thousands of people displaced and died during ensuing mass migrations.