I recently discovered Jonah Lehrer. His writing is sharp and perceptive: “…Why are corporations so fleeting?…Instead of imitating the freewheeling city, these businesses minimize the very interactions that lead to new ideas. They erect walls…
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The play of opposites
Light – Dark Hard – Soft In – Out Black – White Profit – Loss Afraid – Brave Against – For Apart – Together Better – Worse Complicated – Simple There’s a fine line that…
Break patterns to stimulate growth
A one-minute exercise to figure out the topic of an article: Train of thought: need an idea – books – blocks – geometry – Golden Ratio – pi – proportional – exponential – Malthusian growth…
Automated thinking
You’ve automated your thinking. What now? The bicycle, automobile, bus, train, ship, airplane, and spacecraft have enabled humans to project themselves at increasingly longer distances in three-dimensional space. Another way to say that is that…
Complexity and Simplicity
The OED defines complexity as “the state or quality of being intricate or complicated.” It’s synonyms include intricacy, complication, ramification, convolution, elaboration, multiplicity, and and involvement. The same dictionary defines simplicity as “the quality or…
Weekly Roundup: Evolving Business
This is a collection of articles that caught my attention this week with the theme of evolving business. The impact of change is being felt across multiple sectors of the economy and is manifesting itself…