Sunday, June 23, 2002

I had a great strong end. I completed ~40 pages on my new e-paper on Understanding Human Knowing. I expect it will be finished by the end of my next strong end. I go back to work today earning my family's living. Also take a look at my new GIFTegrity site. You are welcome to join and help in creating the first synergic help exchange. Bucky’s Self-Disciplines Buckminster Fuller wrote: I decided that Nature might support a man who was doing what Nature wanted to be done and concluded that I would be informed by Nature if I proceeded in the following manner: 1) Use myself as an experiment to see what, if anything, a healthy, young male human of average size, experience, and capability with an economically dependent wife and new born child, starting without capital or any kind of wealth, cash savings, credit or university degree could effectively do that could not be done by great nations or great private enterprise to lastingly improve the physical protection and support of all human lives. 2) Commit all of my productivity toward dealing only with the whole planet Earth and all its resources and cumulative know-how. Observation of my life to date shows that the larger the number for whom I work, the more positively effective I become. Thus, it is obvious that if I work always and only for all humanity, I will be optimally effective. 3) Seek to do my own thinking, confining it to only experientially gained information. 4) Seek to accomplish whatever is to be attained in such a manner that the advantage attained would never be secured at the cost of another or others. (06/23/02) Understanding Conflict Colonel Gary I. Wilson writes: Conflict often appears deceptively simple. In practice any enterprise, be it a business, a military campaign, a boxing match, or a stockholder's meeting, becomes extremely difficult because of friction. Friction is a force that adversely influences a course of action or plan. Clausewitz, a revered 19th century military theorist, described friction as, "the force that makes the apparently easy so difficult." Friction is the force that resists all action—it makes the simple difficult and the difficult seemingly impossible. The very essence of conflict is a clash between opposing wills and this creates friction. It is critical to keep in mind that our competitors are not inanimate objects but are independent and animate forces. The competition seeks to resist our will and impose their own will on us. The give and take between their will and ours makes business difficult and complex. In this environment, friction abounds. (06/23/02) Alaska On Fire? New York Times -- Even as Alaska experiences the adverse effects of climate change, the state is the second-highest producer of crude oil in the United States, after Texas. According to the E.P.A., the burning of crude oil's refined products is the greatest single contributor to rising temperatures. The Bush administration's continued failure to address the causes of global climate change will lead to more perverse outcomes in Alaska. The Minerals Management Service plans to offer up untouched offshore areas in Alaska for oil drilling including lower Cook Inlet, which would contribute to climate change and increase the risk of oil spills in an area still not fully recovered from the Exxon Valdez spill. While forgoing this drilling will not eliminate climate change, wouldn't our human energy be better directed toward promoting alternatives to oil?  (06/23/02) 7:59:10 AM

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