Zero, One or Two

Sixty seconds after a baby is born, someone scores it out of ten. One doctor's five signs, and why twenty job applications sent for twenty reasons cannot say which reason works.

The Thermostat in Your Head

A man who called himself ignorant about his thermostat turned it up high to warm the house faster. Two copies of one thermostat, and the gap that can settle a household argument before the next bill.

Twenty-Three Cats

Twenty-three cats parachuted into Borneo in 1960 to repair a malaria fix, five definitions of a system, and what systems thinking asks before the next fix: where the cost will show up, and when.