When I was a child I would help my grandmother clear out old bushes and trees having deep roots, e.g. to make more space for planting. My tool of choice was to get the tractor and a chain and yank on it . I could happily yank on it and yank on it, for an hour or even more. I like the hydraulic lift and I liked having the horsepower. Great fun. It was also pretty stupid (or at least inefficient) because with a little digging one with a shovel could find the main roots and saw them. She was quick at that (an old woman down in hole tearing up her thin skin without even caring) and she also had a knack for keeping a big tree trunk burning for days at a time, even deep into the ground. An elegant solution when it works because it destroys itself. But either of her solutions took some calculation and attention. It wasn’t obvious and instrumental like the tractor approach.
It seems a lot of people that want obvious and instrumental solutions for technical or social problems. I think they’ll just yank and yank and get nowhere (other than to break things). I’ll excuse myself because I was 12. From: Friam [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Frank Wimberly Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2016 11:08 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Disruptor As a person whose 4 year old grandson lives with us I can say that it may be easy to make babies but it's not easy to raise them. Frank Frank Wimberly Phone (505) 670-9918 On Oct 18, 2016 11:01 AM, "Marcus Daniels" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Or corrected. I don't want to go to the hospital and get a different loved-one. I want the cancer cured, the organ replaced, or whatever. It's harder to do that than make more babies. -----Original Message----- From: Friam [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of ?glen? Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2016 10:54 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Disruptor It seems to me that new usage patterns always evolve out of old usage patterns. If that's true, then the old way isn't destroyed, but repurposed, adapted, abused, and evolved. On 10/18/2016 09:48 AM, Merle Lefkoff wrote: > I read recently that it was economist Joseph Schumpeter who observed > that originality is an act of creative destruction. We have to > demolish the old way of doing things when we advocate for new systems. > As someone who applies complexity to changing public policy, I feel I > have no other choice. -- ␦glen? ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
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