I keep writing about writing, or not writing. It is important to form a habit by sitting down and posting something on a regular basis, but without posting something of substance once in a while its a bad habit. As this post is also a post about posting, I guess i’m still not really addressing the problem, but I wanted to report loosely on what i’ve been thinking about. It will make its way to this page as soon as I have time to sit down and work it out.
I keep coming back to the idea of things that are built versus things that are grown. We’ve been having alot of discussions around this house that seem to all involve the boundaries between what is real and what is artificial, haecceity is the relevant term here. Please look it up, its an important concept. Anyway i’ve been thinking about what is human and inhuman, natural and unnatural, natural and artificial, and we’ve been having some disagreements in the kitchen.
I’ve been talking to Ethan about control structures, trees versus webs, and how information moves. We’ve talked about levels of analysis and how learning occurs.
At work there has been alot of discussion of management practices, what it means to be a good boss. I’ve been thinking about the nature of power relationships, the sources of authority.
Anyway, there are at least 3 good posts out of all that stuff, maybe well more than that. I just need time and maybe some dialogue to get it written down. All these strands of thought are related somehow. They have some common property, and when I figure out what it is, I’ll go to grad school to study it.
