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[Bucky's Dome] announced the passing of R. Buckminster Fuller's collaborator, Ed Applewhite last week, as 'Ed Applewhite, gone fishing in the cosmos.'
Ed passed quietly at his home on the
morning of February 11, 2005. Ed was one of Bucky's dearest friends and
his closest collaborator having the tenacity to compile and edit the
whole of Bucky's thinking into the two-volume set titled Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking. Ed also compiled the Synergetic Dictionary
from a collection of 80,000 hand typed index cards that catalogued
Bucky's unique way of talking about the phenomena he experienced in
Universe.
7:53:55 PM
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[Seth Godin]: No, this is a post about how bad ideas stick around forever.
The reason is simple: in most organizations, you don't get in trouble for embracing the status quo.
More than a hundred years ago, Kaiser
Wilhelm wanted to get rid of his enemies in the German government. He
noticed that they were all over 65. So he decreed that this was the
official retirement age, and it still is.
I read this just after talking with a colleague, business development
director of a firm that provides brilliant financial analysis of
sustainability-focused business initiatives, commiserating about how
rarely business decisions seem to be made on the basis of rational
analysis. Some would say that 'rationale analysis' is more commonly
used to block inititatives and innovation, and that the best business
decisions are made more by gut, with the analytics brought in after the
fact, to justify decisions already made. Seth would probably agree.
7:48:20 PM
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[43 Folders]: Our
closing quote this time around comes from what purports to be a Chinese
proverb, and I think it's just one of the most cunning things I've ever
heard: 'If you chase two rabbits, both will escape.' Awesome.
2:30:18 PM
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