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The Complicated Nature of Simple Systems

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Keep it simple. We grow up being told that, don’t we? Or rather, Keep It Simple, Stupid, so it has a funny and memorable acronym, KISS. And as a society, we certainly do seem to prefer that, don’t we? Keep the solutions simple. Make it easy to understand. Tiktok and sound bites and break your ideas into bullet points so you can thread them together on X. To be fair, I’m not on X anymore. What does this have to do with writing? Nothing. Everything. When I was first learning how to be a project manager, I was introduced to two individuals who would change my life. (Not personally introduced, you understand, but introduced to their work.) One was a statistician, mathematician, and engineer and the other one was a banker. I speak of W. Edwards Deming, whose management and quality control techniques helped shape the Japanese automotive boom, and Dee Hock, the founder of VISA. I don’t know if they ever met each other. I rather suspect they wouldn’t have gotten along. While both …

Brand New Day

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New day, new blog. I don’t plan to make a habit of it, but as I approach a new milestone (i.e. actually finishing the first draft on a book) it seemed like a good idea to start blogging under the name that will be on the cover of said book and create a site that’s a little more dedicated to writing. The blogging under the right name is pretty darn important. Someone pointed out to me that all the internet presence in the world is meaningless if nobody connects it with your product — in my case, my ‘product’ are the books I’m writing. So there you have it. I have a bad track record about blogging consistently, and one can argue that it’s time I should instead be spending on finishing books. I’m going to try to work on both. We’ll see how it goes.