Organisation - January 13, 2011
Words
In the beginning was the Word and the Word with with God and the Word was God.
This year like any other, thousands of articles, reports and books will come out, full of information and new knowledge. Researchers will be proud of a publication in a prominent scientific journal. Piles of new folders, announcements, reports, cuttings and other written documents will load our reading tables, and the racks in shops and kiosks will bulge with daily papers and weekly and monthly magazines. Some of them more disposable than others, but all intended to be read. And the same goes for the almost innumerable emails that will be sent, the newsletters, the minutes, you name it...
Isn't it all a bit over the top? Wouldn't it be better if we could limit it somewhat? Perhaps we should take a leaf out the book of a painter such as Mondrian. Less is more. Wouldn't it be fantastic if we could cut down all that writing to just one story, to just one word, and eventually... to nothing at all. A blank page. A blank page which says it all.