Appreciating complexity

We take for granted the spectacular complexity required to make our everyday lives feel simple.

Behind that small, online purchase you made are entrepreneurs, accountants, product designers, industrial engineers, website developers, programmers, manufacturing plants, import compliance attorneys, logistics companies, forklift operators, truck drivers and tens of thousands of people you will never meet. And behind every action – every move from every worker and every business – are motives as diverse as the parties involved.

Complaining that the world isn’t perfect is easy. Appreciating what we truly have is much harder.