Upcoming Release: The Math of Meaning

For generations, meaning has been treated as a feeling. Personal. Private. Impossible to verify.

The Math of Meaning begins from a simple claim: meaning is not just what we feel. It is shaped by conditions that determine whether people can understand each other, remain aligned, and coordinate their actions over time.

The book explores why the same words can bring clarity in one moment and confusion in another. Why systems that once made sense gradually stop doing so. And why disagreement often isn’t about values or intent, but about whether shared understanding can be sustained as circumstances change.

Rather than asking what meaning is, the book asks a different question:
What allows meaning to last?

By treating meaning as something that can be studied rather than assumed, The Math of Meaning reveals why coherence has grown rare in modern life—and why many systems continue to operate even as shared understanding fails. Processes still run. Decisions still execute. But people increasingly act on incompatible interpretations, discovering the mismatch only after consequences appear.

Meaning is not something we chase or invent.
It is something we build, maintain, and sometimes lose.

By Jordan Vallejo, PMP®
Principal Researcher, Transformation Management Institute™

Releasing free to the public in 2026. Join the Institute for updates.