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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
I once came up with a riddle to explain this phenomenon to myself. It goes like this:<\/p>\n
Q: What’s the definition of politics?
\n A: Two people in a room.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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