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An evolving path 3 May 2012 | 12:04 pm
I've spent the last couple of months doing quite different things from what I normally have. I've been outside, digging in the garden, tinkering, using power tools. And I've been studying a bunch of n...
Intellectual Property 24 Jan 2012 | 02:50 pm
There's no such thing. Certainly it isn't something you can steal. Quite the contrary, it is a license to steal. Specifically, it is a legal construct that gives an exclusive license to one party to s...
2011 Accomplishments and 2012 Aims 3 Jan 2012 | 03:52 am
It can be stimulating and rewarding to once in a while take stock of what one has accomplished and what one aims at doing next. The new year is traditionally a good time for doing that. And, I'm in pa...
New year wish 1 Jan 2012 | 02:20 pm
Here's to our 2012 being magical, synchronistic, surprising and resilient. A year where everything might change, but what's truly important is found to be indestructible. A year where dreams are no lo...
Are jobs becoming obsolete? 2 Dec 2011 | 07:56 am
[This was one of my answers on Quora a while back.] The idea that there's a paying job waiting for everybody is going away. It was a somewhat odd idea in the first place. Before jobs were invented, ...
Jumps 29 Nov 2011 | 12:15 pm
We're likely to get to the future we desire, not through methodical and linear progress, but through discontinuous quantum jumps. The idea that life progresses linearly, logically, and fluidly, is an...
Blind and Automatic Punishment 24 Nov 2011 | 02:54 pm
I got my first HADOPI warning in an e-mail today. If you didn't know, HADOPI is the French three-strikes law that bans people from using the Internet if they 3 times have been caught downloading somet...
Order and violence 21 Nov 2011 | 01:39 pm
The governments and the culture of many countries will enforce order, no matter what amount of violence is necessary. United States is noteworthy among them, as most of the rest are non-western dictat...
Corruption 20 Nov 2011 | 12:50 pm
I think it is the first and most important target and focal point for a public uprising against the 1%, The Man, the Ruling Class, or whatever we call the predatory elite that somehow has ended up own...
Your inner piece 17 Nov 2011 | 04:20 pm
It is one of the metaphors I most readily reach for when called upon to say something motivational. It isn't terribly original, but it is easily understood and perfectly reusable. We all have a piece...
