Wicked problems
Defining wicked problems
This term, wicked problem, is intentionally phrased as such because these challenges have unique attributes that make it worth pausing for reflection before we dive headfirst into tackling it. Wicked problems, as defined in (Freeman 2000), reduced in (Wicked-Problems-Flower.png (5100), n.d.), and modified for my own wicked problem below, include characteristics that make them a wicked hard problem to tackle.
Starting to detangle a wicked problem can be unclear and vague; subject to the whims of your particular concerns and the stage of the problem you’re working at.
Water is a wicked problem
Like trying to sculpt fog in the dark with a chainsaw, water is a wicked problem. A lot of my current efforts are oriented towards the realization of a functional digital twin of the water cycle, with a particular leaning towards attempting to better communicate the accounting of the cycles’ mass balance. Most of this comes from the ideas of mass balance as laid out in hydrology, my flailings towards painting the inundated landscape, and in my attempts at measuring the world.