Wednesday, March 18, 2026

WEDNESDAY — PERSPECTIVE & PRACTICE

“Understanding the way evolution operates grants us agency to influence the process and determine our future through our imaginings of alternate paths.”

— Robert Hazen & Michael Wong, Carnegie Institution for Science

Physics gave us the first arrow of time: entropy, decay, the inescapable drift toward disorder. New research from the Carnegie Institution proposes a second arrow, a law of nature suggesting that all systems, from minerals to cities to organizations, evolve toward greater complexity, order, and function. To choose the second arrow, Check out This New Theory Upends 150 Years of Established Science.

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Stay safe. Stay healthy. Be strong. Lead well.

Chad