I’ve been organizing a group project at NYU. The project is really fun, but nothing ends up being as simple as it should be.
The problem, I think, is that every project involves people. And whenever people are involved, things that should be simple become complicated. I believe this is because the dynamics between human beings is always odd and non-linear in ways that you never see coming.
I once came up with a riddle to explain this phenomenon to myself. It goes like this:
Q: What’s the definition of politics?
A: Two people in a room.