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Phase 7 · Aug–Sep 2026

Phase 7: Modern Complexity

Networks, Fragility, Collapse

Core Question

Why is our hyper-connected world so fragile? Is collapse fate, or can we design antifragility?

/// Reading List

Linked (Albert-László Barabási)
Network Science (Albert-László Barabási)
Antifragile (Nassim Nicholas Taleb)
The Black Swan (Nassim Nicholas Taleb)
The Collapse of Complex Societies (Joseph Tainter)
Normal Accidents (Charles Perrow)
Thinking in Systems (Donella Meadows)
Limits to Growth (Donella Meadows et al.)
The Big Short (Michael Lewis)
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism (Shoshana Zuboff)

/// Interactive Works 11

7-0

Network Architect

Interactive Experience
Done

Internet, social, metabolic — why do these unrelated networks obey the same mathematics?

Canvas 2D D3 Force Power Law
Enter Experience
7-1

Hub Attack

Interactive Experience
Done

The internet survives 80% random node failure but collapses under 5% targeted attack. Is this asymmetry fate?

Canvas 2D D3 Force Percolation
Enter Experience
7-2

Tight Coupling

Interactive Experience
Done

Three Mile Island — no one made a mistake, every decision was reasonable. Why did the reactor melt down?

Canvas 2D State Machine Perrow Matrix
Enter Experience
7-3

Financial Contagion

Interactive Experience
Done

How does one subprime loan become a AAA-rated CDO? When AIG fell, why did global credit freeze in 48 hours?

Canvas 2D SVG Force Graph BFS Cascade
Enter Experience
7-4

Fat Tails

Interactive Experience
Done

Oct 19, 1987: Dow -22.6% in a single day. Gaussian probability: 10⁻¹⁴⁸. It happened anyway.

Canvas 2D Power-Law PDF Monte Carlo
Enter Experience
7-5

Antifragility Lab

Interactive Experience
Done

Muscles, immunity, evolution — they don't just resist shocks, they gain from them. How do you design antifragile?

Canvas 2D Convexity Plot Barbell Strategy
Enter Experience
7-6

Complexity Collapse

Interactive Experience
Done

Late Rome spent 60-70% of state income on the military. Why did frontier farmers not resist the collapse?

Canvas 2D Tainter Curve System Dynamics
Enter Experience
7-7

Feedback Studio

Interactive Experience
Done

Retail demand shifts 10%, manufacturer inventory swings 500%. How do delay and feedback tear supply chains apart?

Canvas 2D Bullwhip Sim Leverage Points
Enter Experience
7-8

Platform Power

Interactive Experience
Done

Scott's state made the world 'legible'. 21st-century platforms want to make you legible — and you don't know it.

Canvas 2D Behavioral Mirror Lock-in Score
Enter Experience
7-9

Climate Commons

Interactive Experience
Done

A Swiss village managed its meadow commons for 800 years. Can 8 billion people govern the atmospheric commons the same way?

Canvas 2D Polycentric Sim Ostrom 8
Enter Experience
7-10

Designer Portrait

Interactive Experience
Done

After 10 Phase 7 works — are you an antifragility designer, a network-resilience advocate, a complexity fatalist, or a leverage hunter?

SVG Radar Aggregator Phase 8 Bridge
Enter Experience
Phase 6: Knowledge & Institutions Phase 8: Synthesis