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Is this the right problem, and the right intervention?

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What I think now

In my first job, we used to treat any problem space as a complex system and come up with individual components as hypotheses.

from Complex Systems, Not Integrations, Sep 2026

Be it a healthcare real-world evidence problem or otherwise, instead of starting with the inductive bias of data, we started with the how, what, and why of whatever the target system was and defined it through semantic representations, assumptions, hypotheses, and questions.

from Complex Systems, Not Integrations, Sep 2026

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