The Optimization Trap: Why Too Much Efficiency Makes Us Fragile with Olivier Hamant

Podcast: The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens · Nate Hagens

Opublikowano: 2026-08-05

For decades, modern civilization has treated efficiency as an unquestioned good: the leaner, faster, and more optimized anything is – from supply chains to your morning routine – the better. But emerging systems science argues that this obsession with performance is actually making humanity more brittle. What if the over-optimization baked into our economies, our agriculture, our institutions, and even our own bodies is at the root of our shared predicament, and how can nature's intelligence show us a different way? In this episode, Nate is joined by biologist and biophysicist Olivier Hamant to explore why living systems prioritize robu...