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Everything you’ve learned in school as ‘obvious’ becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There’s not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines. -- R. Buckminster Fuller

  • 2023-06-07

    It was twenty years ago today…

    …I started my public wondering. It’s been a while since I’ve gone back through the archives, I think I’ll take a few days to stop my wondering and reflect on the journey so far. And then start wondering again.

  • 2021-06-09

    How the elephant got his trunk: what evolution can teach us about complexity

    Reminds me of Kaufmann’s mention that the adjacent possible is “historical”, in other words the culmination point, the result or outcome, of past events. In that sense, the past is both a constraint on the future (via the adjacent possible) and the source of what is possible in the adjacent possible.

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  • 2021-03-24

    An Eternal Golden Braid

    I am rediscovering my love of Hofstadter’s Gödel Escher Bach (aka GEB) through a deep reading group on Clubhouse. This week was Chapter X, Levels of Description. Re-reading this prior to and with the room, I realized that my initial reading of this all those years ago (40?!?) was very likely the genesis of one of my key wonderings, Layers of abstraction, the cost of convenience, and the commoditization of experience.

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  • 2020-12-07

    "As the prison gate closed behind him..."

    I recently joined a community of writers, more accurately a community of people getting together to support each other as we write and work on our writing. Part of this are fortnightly writing prompts, one fiction and one non-fiction. Though most (ok, all) of what I usually write is firmly in the non-fiction category, I thought it would be good to give the non-fiction prompt a go, and see what happened. This is the result of one of those prompts.

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  • 2020-09-29

    Sometimes reinventing the wheel is exactly what you need

    Don’t reinvent the wheel.

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Just as there are no straight lines in nature, there are no straight lines in life. Thank you for joining me on this adventure of discovery.
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