Dual Tempo

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Once upon a time I ((Eric Dobbs)) worked in the electrical power industry. I improved the deploy code, test automation, and continuous integration for the software in a software/hardware/services company that ultimately turned air compressors off for millions of air conditioners on the hottest days of the year. The complexities offer a compact example to illustrate how adaptive systems operate in tangled layers with different tempos and how each layer has its own needs to be able to change tempos. Moreover, the layers and tempos interact and require coordination.