I have been trying to read other books on complexity before, but think this is a book everyone should start with. Compared to what I learned in the "Complex Systems" course in my first year at university, goes this book more into technical and computational depth. I really enjoyed learning about mathematical concepts and simulation principles of complexity and how they are applied to concrete problems.

It took me a couple of weeks to read through this book, and I am glad. This way I could reflect on single chapters for a few days and see how they apply to my work and daily life. A few ideas were also quite new and complicated for me to understand (but incredibly interesting!), so I read slow.

I am so glad my university introduced me to complexity science. It has helped me in getting my current position, and I really hope I will one day be at the Santa Fee Institute for a project!
While reading this book I found out that my friend is currently an intern at SFI under Melanie Mitchell, how cool is that?
Fingers crossed one day I will be too :)