I was writing a chapter of Beautiful Evidence on the subject of the sculptural pedestal, which led to my thinking about what's up on the pedestal - the great leader.

There are many true statements about complex topics that are too long to fit on a PowerPoint slide.

Design isn't crafting a beautiful, textured button with breathtaking animation. It's figuring out if there's a way to get rid of the button altogether.

A curious consequence is that I have become a minor celebrity.

Audience boredom is usually a content failure, not a decoration failure.

I hope that I am generous and tolerant, but certainly on the intellectual side I think that there are discoverable truths, and some things that are closer approximations to the truth than others.

The point of the essay is to change things.