Campaign against Complexity

Campaign against Complexity

Complexity and systems thinkers need to STOP NOW!! Complexity and systems thinkers are doing more harm than good. Join the Campaign Against Complexity (CAC). Why? Complexity and systems thinkers need to put down your frameworks, scrap your models, burn your loopy...
Complexity is solved, so what’s next?

Complexity is solved, so what’s next?

A startup based in a garret in Rotherham, England, has announced that they have solved complexity. Using a laptop running Ubuntu Linux, a small team of researchers, well actually a guy with a beard called Aubrey, has coded an artificial intelligence (AI) that can...
What is a developmental edit of a nonfiction book?

What is a developmental edit of a nonfiction book?

What does the author get after it? What am I thinking about and watching for? What do I NOT do? What are the steps? 1. I read the book like a reader. First, I just read the book from start to finish. No notes, no stopping, no analysis. I want to take in the book...
Have you found the “One Thing”? I have. Lots of them.

Have you found the “One Thing”? I have. Lots of them.

Have you found the “One Thing”? I have. Lots of them. I’d found it. The One Thing. It was Microsoft Access. Yes! No laughing at the back. Microsoft Access. In 1997, I’d been working as a financial analyst at Chase Manhattan for three months. Every day I had to grapple...
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