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Saturday, February 8, 2003

Drivel:  The more I think about my earlier post about the art of word selection, the more the whole thing makes sense to me.  The problem for me has been that I have not been feeding my brian, so nothing has been coming out.  Writing and the art of word selection is the utimately demonstration of human processing power.  The more one does it, the more efficient and effective one becomes at it.  You need good sources of information with that stimulate processing and the activity of writing and word selection.  As I am writing this, it makes a ton of sense -- to me, any way.  No wonder programmers also like writing -- writing in English must be like a vacation from programming that acheives the same level of intellectual stimulation.  (OK, I may be rambling now.  Please keep in mind I am sitting in the Los Angeles airport right now at 11:15pm on a Friday night.)  2:18:35 AM   comments ()

Drivel:  My conversation with John Smart this evening was like a jump-start for my brain.  I have not done a lot of thinking in the past couple of months and it is time to change that.  2:15:46 AM   comments ()

Drivel:  I met John Smart this evening as I was leaving Los Angeles.  It is meetings like this one that makes traveling worthwhile.  John runs a site called SingularityWatch.com.  He is finishing his Master's degree in Science & Technology Studies at the University of Houston and has built an amazing network of contacts, including Raymond Kurzweil.  John is one of the great minds of the future.  He is one of very few people I know that can command a huge picture in his mind with a very clear level of detail.  2:04:45 AM   comments ()

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