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What can machine learning and data engineering tell us about how social systems are wired to function? As it turns out, these fields are more alike than meets the eye.\\xa0

Christian Lemp, an early TARTLE adopter and professional systems thinker, explains that he was drawn to his career path after years of observation and experience in different parts of the world. While Christian originally studied math and economics, which led to a short career in finance, he found himself more attracted to how different communities thought and interacted with each other.\\xa0

From there, he took a leap and entered the world of machine learning and data engineering. Christian helped find ways to understand organizations and optimize their work processes. However, he quickly realized that this work entailed untangling a series of systems that were all interconnected\\u2014some of which would require more creative, community-centric solutions.\\xa0

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Interconnected Problems Require Interconnected Solutions:

The deeper Christian delved into studying operations of organizations, the more he saw that problems in his line of work could not be solved individually. Since all the problems were so intertwined with one another, trying to make solutions one at a time would only reroute the issue to another part of the organization at best, and make the overall situation more dire at worst.

Instead, organizations needed to commune and mutually come to one big solution that could solve all the problems at once.\\xa0

Outside of organizations, this is an issue that can also manifest on a cultural and national scale\\u2014especially in locations with diverse cultures. For example, the banner of the United states houses numerous states and regions, each with their own special communities. All these communities are bound to have their own personal interests and biases.\\xa0

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Is Efficiency An Absolute Good?:

Given how complex all of that is, what place does mere efficiency have in our understanding of it? Not much, at least as it is currently understood. This is true across the board. Many things that seem as though they should be efficient don\\u2019t wind up being so at all.\\xa0

For example, monocropping is a common practice amongst farmers, where they grow the same crop on the same plot of land year after year. While it is simpler to manage and highly efficient, monocropping also makes the soil less productive over time because it depletes the nutrients found in the soil. As a consequence, it reduces organic matter in the soil and can cause significant erosion. While there are short-term gains for the farmer, it eventually nets a long-term loss because it hurts their soil.

If that is true for an activity like farming, how much more true is it as applied to human society? The fact is that there is simply too much going on in any society for it to be completely understood, much less controlled by any one individual. It\\u2019s just impossible. Yet when we get out of the way (for the most part), things seem to organize themselves into a symbiotic relationship.\\xa0

Short of that understanding, we tend to try to wedge people into different boxes. This is an effort that is not only doomed to failure but will also sooner or later lead to resistance, which can affect the work we put towards providing solutions as a whole.

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Closing Thoughts:

With all this information, it may feel like we\\u2019ve reached a dead-end for the problems we face in our society: we can\\u2019t solve one problem at a time, and thinking of one big all-encompassing solution seems like an impossible task.\\xa0

However, the discussion with Christian suggests that there is one simple thing we are capable of doing that can help alleviate the solution: we can treat everybody we come across with dignity. Instead of forcing them to fit into a system based on our preconceived notions, we give them the space to see where they can fit in instead. Those in charge of creating systems should not be building people around systems; rather, they should be taking the time to understand everyone in their complexity, and building systems around people.

This is the kind of work that the TARTLE platform is putting in. We want to provide a safe space for people on the ground to take back control of their data and funnel it to causes and organizations that are important to them. When we give them the power to directly support what reflects their own personal ideals, we empower people to become more united and open to one another.\\xa0

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