September 02013
September is nearly over, and it’s now been over a month since my first post. I think the end of each month is a good time to outline my own logistical concerns from last month and project what I’ll do going forward. The Horse_ebooks creators to me, over the phone on the last day more »
Controlling Commonness
I took a break from “A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History” to breeze through “Mystery Teachings from the Living Earth” (I know). my reading hiatus on Nonlinear History will probably continue so that I can wrap Venkat’s new ebooks. I hope to finish Nonlinear History in early October. “Mystery Teachings” is one of those more »
Playing Everything
“Loving [a thing] should make you a snob, not a cheerleader. And proper snobs are full of hate about what they love.” -Eric Zimmerman Notes: After this post, I’m going to start writing much shorter and more sporadic posts, I think. I’ll reduce the time from writing to posting so that I can talk more »
The Weird and the Banal
I’m sure this exists in some Umberto Eco book or something somewhere- But imagine a man who is supernaturally bestowed with the power to truthfully answer any question someone else poses to him, but only on the terms that the question was posed. Our poor supergenius, call him Bert, cannot add new vocabulary that the more »
Design-Thinking
Originally, this blog was a sort of challenge to write continuously for a little while. I’ve sort of got the hang of it, but I wanted to focus some effort on other things, so I am reducing my output after next week’s pretty sizable posts. I figured it wasn’t cheating by my own lights, since more »
Reducing to Numbers
This post is a little on the short side. I was excited about next week’s posts (just finished next Tuesday’s post), and hopefully I’m still excited about them when they’re posted. This Thursday, I’m posting a semi-autobiographical post about abductive reasoning that sets the stage a bit. After next week, after two pretty sizable posts, I more »
Developing Organizations
Note: I am writing every Tuesday and Thursday now. I noticed much more Thursday traffic than Tuesday traffic this week… I am currently barely starting A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History (had a turbulent few weeks- my reading time took a serious hit). I’ve encountered attempts at historical accounts at a different perspective than human agency, but never one more »
The Simulation Gap
I’ve got a few backlog posts, so I can say that for the time-being, I expect to post every Tuesday and Thursday. I’ve sorta impressed myself with how easily I’ve been able to write without killing myself with work or my other projects (so far). This is my Tuesday post. Below is a bastardization abridged version of more »