Sunday, October 06, 2002

Manifesto for Growth via Absolute One: 1 Allow events to change you 2 Forget about good 3 process is more important than outcome 4 love your experiments like ugly children 5 go deep 6 capture accidents 7 study 8 drift 9 begin anywhere 10 everyone is a leader 11 harvest ideas, edit applications 12 keep moving 13 slow down 14 don't be cool (cool is conservative fear, dressed in black) 15 ask stupid questions 16 collaborate 17 an image which email won't replicate 18 Allow space for ideas you haven't had yet 19 Stay up late 20 Work the metaphor 21 time is genetic 22 repeat yourself 23 make your own tools 24 stand on someone's shoulders 25 avoid software (everyone has it) 26 don't clean your desk 27 don't enter awards (its bad for you) 28 creativity is not device dependent 29 organisation is liberty 30 don't borrow money 31 listen carefully 32 take field trips 33 imitate 34 make mistakes faster 35 scat (break it, stretch it, crack it, fold it) 36 explore the other edge 37 coffee breaks, cab rides, ream (?) rooms 38 avoid fields, jump fences 39 laugh 40 remember 41 power to the people 6:58:48 PM    trackback []     Articulate []

Halley Suitt of Halley's Comment pulls out a terrific quotation: ...In another domain, research on resilience, both physical and mental, reveals that rich authentic connection is one of the most salient factors in continued good health, outweighting such decisive forces as nutrition, exercise, even the absence of smoking. We enter life whole and connected and we operate best when richly attached. Intimacy is our natural state as a species, our birthright. And yet, while the push away from genuine closeness occurs at different points in their development, and in critically different ways, neither boys nor girls are allowed to maintain healthy relatedness for very long. ... Instead of cultivating intimacy, turning nascent aptitudes into mature skills, we teach boys and girls, in complimentary ways, to bury their deepest selves, to stop speaking, or attending to, the truth, to hold in mistrust, or even in disdain, the state of closeness we all, by our natures, most crave... We live in an antirelational, vulnerability-despising culture, one that not only fails to nurture the skills of connection but actively fears them. This comes from Terance Real's How Can I Get Through to You: Reconnecting Men and Women. I don't know the book, so I can't say more about it, but this observation seems right on point to me. [both2and: beyond binary] 6:38:26 PM    trackback []     Articulate []

Non Disputandum Est Do you like to read really good food-writing? We certainly do. Because eating is an integral part of our lives that combines so well with wine and romance, perfectly tuned phrases that capture the soul of a brilliant dish can also inflame the imagination and fire our desires for culinary experimentation. A review of Marcella Hazan's recipe for Pasta Carbonara that ran this week in the LA Times is one of the best I've ever read. It's for food lovers. It's food best eaten warm, right from the stove, in the kitchen, as dinner for two. The preparation of spaghetti carbonara could not be more congenial. It comes replete with its own dynamic, its own tantalizing tempo and heady succession of good smells. We made this last night, and followed the reviewer's suggestion of adding a simple watercress salad whose peppery spiciness perfectly balanced the earthy flavors of pancetta, parsely, and Parmigiano-Reggiano. A crisp Soave and a background accompaniment of Kenny Burrell's Midnight Blue had the Raven and Ravenatrix making eyes at each other over the candlelight well before the plates were cleared. [The Raven] [Andrew Bayer Is Dreaming of China] 6:35:46 PM    trackback []     Articulate []