What if the best answer to a curious, generative question like, "What are all the ways we could...?" is "Do less"?

UVA Engineering professor Leidy Klotz, author of Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less makes the case to consider subtraction as a viable, reliable, and all-too-often overlooked strategy in a world that is biased to always add more.

And in a twist I definitely didn't see coming, Leidy takes analogous thinking to a whole new level of subtraction. "Analogies," he says, "are one of the only ways to remove wrong ideas."

Leidy Klotz: https://www.leidyklotz.com

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