by Rob Worth | 5 Jul 2021 | Writing tips
Diagrams – Do they stop readers thinking? A picture is worth a thousand words. Or, a picture closes off a thousand thoughts. To use pictures or diagrams to accompany, explain or clarify complex ideas is something that people take for granted. When Ivo Velitchkov came...
by Rob Worth | 3 Jul 2021 | Complexity
You can’t tell stories about complexity … but you must A quick search on Twitter brings up these phrases from two tweets: “Complex systems cannot be summarized by linear storytelling.” “Complex systems defy causation, so linear stories that attempt to describe...
by Rob Worth | 28 Jun 2021 | Purpose
Why is writing about complexity and systems so hard? Writing about anything is difficult. How to describe people, places and things in an engaging and useful way is the problem facing any non-fiction writer. But we who write about complexity and systems have it much...