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…
Writing
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…
The cost of starting up
Over the years, one of the most informative items that I learned about modern professional cyclists was that during the off-season from mid-fall to late-winter they worked to stay within 5% of peak fitness. This…
A story of accidental innovation
On February 2, 2017 I posted A visual definition of strategy and it has by far become one of the most viewed articles on my blog. I’ve written 450+ pieces in the 2 years that…
Your organizing device
An organizing device is an anchor. It could be a specific source of inspiration for any kind of creative work or business project. If you are practicing architecture, it could be a key landscape feature…