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Leidy Klotz

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Leidy Klotz is a Professor at the University of Virginia, with appointments in Engineering, Architecture, and Business. He studies the science of design: how we transform things from how they are to how we want them to be. He has secured over $10 million in competitive funding to support this new area of research. To share research insights with those who can use them, he has written more than 80 articles and two books. To apply these insights to address climate change and systemic inequality, Leidy also works directly with organizations including the World Bank, the World Design Organization, and ideas42.

Before becoming a professor, Leidy managed the design and construction of large engineering projects and before that he played professio ...more

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My book, Sustainability through Soccer, is now available!

My book, Sustainability through Soccer: An Unexpected Approach to Saving the World is now available. In addition to being the best thing I’ve ever written, the book is also my best excuse for having fewer posts on this site over the past couple of years. If that is something you have noticed, I’m sure you will enjoy this book!

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Al Franken, Giant of the Senate

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Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention

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“The Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu advised, “To attain knowledge add things every day. To attain wisdom subtract things every day.”
― Leidy Klotz, Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less

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“Ben was rightfully proud of his gimmick, and if he wasn’t always so helpfully skeptical toward my ideas, I may have thought twice about pointing out that saying no is not subtracting. When someone rings the no-bell, it’s because they haven’t added some new activity, which is not the same as taking away an activity from what they were already doing.”
― Leidy Klotz, Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less

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“author Stephen King’s observation that “to write is human, to edit is divine.”
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