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.

Good design is clear thinking made visible, bad design is stupidity made visible

I think it is important for software to avoiding imposing a cognitive style on workers and their work.

Clutter is not an attribute of information, clutter is a failure of design...fix the design rather than stripping all the detail out of the map.

The point of the essay is to change things.

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

An open mind but not an empty head.