My father worked for governments all his life as an engineer and public works director.

There is no such thing as information overload, just bad design. If something is cluttered and/or confusing, fix your design.

Design cannot rescue failed content.

We've drifted into this presentation mode without realizing the cost to the content and the audience in the process.

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 speculative part of my work is that these particular cognitive tasks - ways of thinking analytically - are tied to nature's laws.

Here's the general theory: To clarify, add detail. Imagine that. To clarify, add detail. And clutter and overload are not an attribute of information, they are failures of design. If the information is in chaos, don't start throwing out information, instead fix the design.