don’t mind me. i’m just tossing this quote that i found from matt jones about karl popper into the annotated bookmark bin:
“He criticised what came to be called solutioneering: the jumping to solutions – reorganisations, replanning – without spelling out what the problem was, or if there was one. At the back of this lay “holism”, the belief that problems must be tackled “as a whole”. He showed that the holistic method turns out to be impossible. The greater the changes attempted, the greater their unintended and unexpected repercussions, forcing upon the holistic engineer the expedient of piecemeal improvisation – the “notorious phenomenon of unplanned planning”. “