Policies to tweak societal systems are more effective when manipulating the rules - rather than the levers - of the system

All parts of formal systems - even axioms - can be effectively represented as functions

The uptake of a competitive edge by all competitors in a market eventually results in no net market advantage overall, but ends up causing a detriment to society

Recognising unnecessary constraints from simple premises can lead to surprising truths

The physical parts differ between scales, but the rules seem to stay the same

It's not a solution, but a solution to find the solution