Your post deserves more attention than I have at the moment. If it's
not covered by someone else, I'll get to it in the next few days. But
since I can respond to this one quickly, I will.
Thus spake Ted Carmichael circa 11/01/2009 05:53 PM:
If you don't like levels and prefer layers, then I'm
The above question can be answered at some level for the Bugs Bunnys of the
world! And the answer is: Yes, indeed, plenty. Here is a little story anent
our marvellous aptitude for development with time. The original discus, as
used in the first Greek Olympics, was quite clever, and
Is
thishttp://arieff.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/01/not-new-but-improved/?themc=thnew?
“Let’s say the market needs a new bath toy. The typical approach is to look
at form, function and the market. But here, we’re leading with the material,
and if the material doesn’t do exactly what we need we can
In case anyone wants to spend a month here in santa fe. It is a way-
cool experience.
-- Owen
Begin forwarded message:
From: Santa Fe Institute educat...@santafe.edu
Date: November 2, 2009 3:31:48 PM MST
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Subject: SFI Complex Systems Summer School
PLEASE
Peter,
What can I say? Words is what I do. I have been doing words professionally
for more than 40 years. I certainly don't hold that words are the only thing
to do, but, I do hold that there is some value in close attention to how words
are used, particularly their often demonstrated
First, I pick a few nits just to be sure we're communicating. Please
note that I almost didn't send this because too much of what I say is
just distracting nit-picking. But then I decided that's OK because the
people who don't want to read it can just hit the delete key. ;-)
Thus spake Ted
