Jeffrey Kluger's book on why simple things become complex seems interesting. Read a review today in the National Post that sparked my interest. The money quote from Araminta Wordsworth's review is ... "Simple things can be more complex than they seem, and complex things more simple."
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What's fascinating is how we ignore teaching and leading people on how to see clearly. Which, in my mind, is part of the problem.
Too many agendas creates a vacuum difficult to fill.
Posted by: Epic Living | July 14, 2008 at 02:41 PM
"Simple things can be more complex than they seem, and complex things more simple."
...This seems to follow the age-old absurdity that smart things can really be stupid and stupid things can really be smart...
As green movement folks put it: "less is more"...
Or, back to 500 BC and Heraclitus: "the way up is the way down..."
All exceptional examples of quasi-meaningless mumbo jumbo that seems to attract a certain psychographic segment.
Posted by: John Gillett | July 15, 2008 at 01:47 PM
"Simple things can be more complex than they seem, and complex things more simple."
...This seems to follow the age-old absurdity that smart things can really be stupid and stupid things can really be smart...
As green movement folks put it: "less is more"...
Or, back to 500 BC and Heraclitus: "the way up is the way down..."
All exceptional examples of quasi-meaningless mumbo jumbo that seems to attract a certain psychographic segment.
Posted by: John Gillett | July 15, 2008 at 01:48 PM
Hmm ... there's also the certain psychographic segment that leaves duplicate comments on blogs.
Posted by: john moore (from Brand Autopsy) | July 15, 2008 at 02:10 PM