Nesting Recursion

Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask not what you can do for your country.

Ask what you both must do for one another that both may thrive. Then co-design the communication systems to accomplish THAT, continuously.

Restated: make sure that everything you do has a net positive impact on adjacent systems whether inside or outside.

Credit: Jose Perez Rios

Related to nested recursion, is the structural acknowledgement that being a part is not necessarily an exclusive arrangement. Ostrom's group refer to Polycentricity which points toward this multisystem multi level kind of mixing and matching that is culturally unfamiliar to Westerners so used to strict tree hierarchies--restrictive categories. One can and generally is part (often playing different roles) of several entities. This does not get discussed very much. In a networked world, as opposed to a strict hierarchy, we all must be better understood these possibilities and realities. People make these shifts easily, but we are less fluid in the organizational domain. Christopher Alexander's paper, A City is Not a Tree, lays out these distinctions well.