Tag Archives: sustainability

The Complexity Conspiracy: A Plea for Simplicity

Last weekend, I found myself at the customer service desk of our local hardware store, returning what should have been a simple kitchen tool: a mandolin slicer. For the uninitiated, a mandolin is traditionally a straightforward yet notoriously dangerous kitchen gadget designed to help you slice and dice everything from potatoes to your fingertips equally […]

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Correctness vs Innovation

I’ve been noticing a trend gaining more and more traction over at least the last decade. You’ve seen it, too, and we all use different words to describe a similar pattern.  Disaggreable. Divisive. Unrelenting. Off-putting. Even alienating.   No, I am NOT talking about politics. Instead, how we humans seem to view ourselves and the […]

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