The answer to this question has implications for systems design: are elegant equations more likely to be right than inelegant ones?
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Design’s value has become mainstreamed.
Where will new sources of innovation come from in the future? Successful organizations will innovate from within. Scaling up design to effect systemic change is the new challenge.
Leadership lessons from a blizzard: slow down or do nothing.
The recent blizzard in Washington, DC left behind 20″+ of snow over 36 hours. During this period of time, residents were faced with commutes on icy roads; partially plowed streets; digging out snow-covered sidewalks and…
Is design becoming a machine-like process?
Design problems are not static and the framework used to understand a problem shouldn’t be fixed. Human nature is to categorize and define reality. Design shouldn’t work this way because it will limit one’s perception…
End fragmentary thought by seeking understanding.
“Some might say: ‘Fragmentation of cities, religions, political systems, conflict in the form of wars, general violence, fratricide, etc., are the reality. Wholeness is only an ideal, toward which we should perhaps strive.’ But this…
Heroes can have a thousand faces.
The video below is an outstanding interpretation of Joseph Campbell’s The Hero With a Thousand Faces. This book was the primary inspiration for George Lucas’s Star Wars. The themes presented in the book are still…