Old Knowledge, New Clothes

I had just joined a new organisation which was in a completely different area from my old job, where I had spent five years (I moved because I had got bored). There was a lot of discussion on a particular situation they couldn’t resolve, they just kept going round in circles. I said, this looks very much like a situation I had written a paper on some years before in a completely unrelated field – it was just the characteristics of the situation were similar. I wrote a paper on the process to resolve it. This paper ended up being presented at the World ________ Conference!