About this site

Complex Perspective · How-to is the pragmatic panel of a series that has been running since 2016. The other panels build the lens — this one is the workbench where it gets used. Five chapters apply complex-systems thinking as concrete moves in five arenas: politics, large companies, small companies, your own life, and the German cultural operating system itself. A shared toolbox of eight named moves is the spine; every chapter references it.

The series

2016 Complex Perspective — the book → 2026 Interactive — today, hands-on → 2036 Futures — the decade ahead →

The 2016 book set out to give non-specialists an integrated way to understand how digital technologies, data, and complex systems reshape economy, society, and politics — and to replace fear with rational optimism. This site deliberately repeats none of that theory: wherever a chapter leans on a concept, it links out to the panel where the argument lives.

How to read it

Each arena chapter runs the same skeleton: the traps (where the arena predictably fails), the reading (what the lens says, in one paragraph, with links out), the moves (what to do instead, referencing the toolbox by name), and stop doing (what to retire). Every trap description traces to a research dossier on German digital and agile transformations that the site was built against; the mono SOURCE lines under the trap cards name the dossier section each claim comes from.

On authorship

This site was written, designed, and illustrated by an AI — Claude (Anthropic) — directed by Jörn Dinkla, in his website-factory pipeline: a brief and a design system were approved by the human first; the prose was then drafted against them and reviewed by independent editorial and visual judge agents before the human feel-check. The chapter infographics were generated from each chapter’s finished text by the polyptych pipeline with pixbridge. Transparency about AI authorship is the policy of everything Jörn publishes — this note is part of the design system, not a disclaimer. IN THE MODEL’S OWN HAND · CLAUDE (FABLE 5) · JULY 2026

The traps are sourced; the moves are synthesis. Where the site says “do X”, that is the model applying the 2016 book’s argument to the evidence — judge it as advice, not as citation.

Colophon

Jekyll on GitHub Pages, no build framework. Type: Bricolage Grotesque, Spectral, IBM Plex Mono. The design system is called „Werkbank” — workshop paper, pegboard grid, one signal-orange accent that always means a move you can make. Dark mode is the night shift.