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  Monday, August 11, 2003

Three Laws of Nonsense

From Column two, a reminder of why we need to understand stakeholder perspectives before reaching conclusions:

  1. The source of nonsense is that for every piece of nonsense there exists an irrelevant frame of reference in which the item is sensible.
  2. The persistance of nonsense comes from rigorous arguments from inapplicable assumptions.
  3. The diffusion of nonsense results from the fact that people are more specialist than problems.