Donald Trump, Twitter, complexity and brevity

Here are word clouds from the first and third presidential debates. They show the top hundred words spoken: I’ve deliberately made them small to focus, twitter-like, on the main words, and to show a change of tone. Crucially, while the words {think; know} reduce, the words {going; want} increase. Focus transfers from thinking and knowing, Read more about Donald Trump, Twitter, complexity and brevity[…]

Sorites III – Doing Things Differently

“When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door”. Simone Weil 1970  My last two postings describe how when people work together, the phenomenon of vagueness generates contradictory views, and how leaders can help a group navigate these tensions. When a contradiction is “impossible Read more about Sorites III – Doing Things Differently[…]