Center for Strategic Communication

One grief, all worlds

[ by Charles Cameron — from Gaza to Mt Sinjar and beyond, the universality and singularity of grief ] . One grief at a time is enough. It is “unbearable”, meaning that it arrives at the limit of what we single humans can possibly endure. How can one...

Hipbone’s Games, Emlyn’s critique

[ by Charles and Emlyn Cameron — my thousandth ZP post, and his first — in which my son schools me in making my games more responsive to the requirements of decision-support ] . Alexander Calder, "Yellow Sail", 1950, Weatherspoon Art Museum,...

Serpent logics: a ramble

[ by Charles Cameron — continuing my exploration of a pattern language of thoughts, both verbal and imagistic ] . This is a ship-shipping ship, shipping shipping ships. pic.twitter.com/GqzTB866WK via @usmanm — Nat. Maritime Museum (@NMMGreenwich) October...

Echevarria and the Irrational in Strategy

Adam Elkus alerted me to an insightful op-ed by Dr. Antulio Echevarria of SSI: Op-Ed: Is Strategy Really A Lost Art? …. Instead, we need to rediscover the value of strategizing relative to the outcome, the product, an individual strategy. The hard truth is that...