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Can't Learn Less: Post-Transition Meeting Thoughts

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Friday, January 18, 2013. I spent the evening at a Transition meeting for another neighborhood. One of the organizers asked me to come. maybe half of those attending were sixtyish. It was a well-run meeting and we talked about what we wanted to see in our neighborhood in 2020, and how did we expect tho get there. I restrained myself from making provocative comments, and caricatured speakers. I had a nice chat with an MArch candidate, who was looking for a way to incorporate transition into her thesis.

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Can't Learn Less: A Dozen Aphorisms Or Something

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Sunday, January 13, 2013. A Dozen Aphorisms Or Something. Stupidity requires an act of will. Error must be corrected; it doesn't have to be acknowledged. Dee Hock, creator of Visa and MasterCard. If the perfect is the enemy of the good, is the adequate enemy of the inadequate? Is the necessary the enemy of "whatever, man.". People think moral relativity or situational ethics is easy - hedonistic indulgences of the Playboy Philosophy. I'm for using a different name. Some scientist - I forget who or what k...

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Can't Learn Less: Pavel Tsatsouline Gave Me A Six Pack At Fifty

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Tuesday, January 15, 2013. Pavel Tsatsouline Gave Me A Six Pack At Fifty. When we were getting ready to invade Afghanistan, I saw a guy I'd taken some classes from on Fox News. Pretty neat, because I've watched Fox News half a dozen times in my life. What are the odds there? Pavel Tsatsouline is a personal trainer that ran some pretty intelligent fitness classes at the local Open U., back at the turn of the millennium. He was Russia-born in 1969, and served as a fitness instructor for the Spetsnaz. It's ...

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Can't Learn Less: Gun Control, Disappointment, And Systems Theory

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Monday, February 4, 2013. Gun Control, Disappointment, And Systems Theory. President Obama was in Minneapolis today, launching his initiative to limit shootings like the Sandy Hook Elementary slayings. Everybody has an idea about gun control. Expect to be disappointed. What a dick. I hope I'm never in a crowded theater, with him, when some maniac pulls out a weapon. Caught in the crossfire. The places (in increasing order of effectiveness) are:. Numbers (subsidies, taxes, standards). Telling your truth: ...

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Can't Learn Less: Gun Control And Systems Theory

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Monday, February 11, 2013. Gun Control And Systems Theory. Meadows says that she isn't trying to give us recipes for finding and using leverage points, but to encourage more widespread thinking in systems. I guess I'm guilty of wanting recipes. this series of posts is supposed to get me thinking in a specific subject - mass shootings - in terms of numbers, stocks and flows, negative feedback, etc. Maybe I'll also spread the word about. My next post will be based on "9. Numbers.". I'm interested in practi...

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Can't Learn Less: Gun Violence And Positive Feedback

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Monday, March 4, 2013. Gun Violence And Positive Feedback. Positive feedback is a cycle in which something's happening makes its happening again more likely. Donella Meadows offers several other examples:. Eroded soil increases erosion because the thinner, poorer soil supports fewer erosion-stopping plants;. The more high-energy neutrons in the critical mass, they more they knock into nuclei and generate more;". The more flu sufferers, the more the flu spreads;. The other is the Tom Baker Dr. Who, tr...

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Can't Learn Less: Mass Shootings and Systems Theory: Materials Stocks And Flows

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Tuesday, February 19, 2013. Mass Shootings and Systems Theory: Materials Stocks And Flows. The effect of Hungarian road system, in which you have to go through Budapest to get from one side of the country to the other, on pollution and congestion;. Large commercial inventories, which allow for supply interruptions, and just-in-time inventories which make a business more flexible;. The baby-boom swell in US population;. Flooding in rivers, as opposed to lakes. Gun control advocates have suggested that cit...

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Can't Learn Less: Gun Violence And Numbers As A System Levrage Point

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Sunday, February 17, 2013. Gun Violence And Numbers As A System Levrage Point. I put off writing this post, worried that I might be missing something. This one's supposed to be about Donella Meadows' least effective leverage point for intervening in a system, numbers, and numbers as a way of reducing mass shootings. In the case of mass shootings, proposed changes in the debate seem to be about numbers. How fast can a gun shoot, and how many rounds can it hold? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Sequestr...

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Can't Learn Less: Systems Within Systems

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Wednesday, February 20, 2013. Environment, Power, and Society. Howard Odum wrote something to the effect that systems are limited in what they can do by what the larger systems of which they are parts will allow, and by what their own subsystems can provide for. Thinking about gun violence, particularly inane mass shootings, in terms of systems, can be frustrating because the system is much larger and more detailed than individual, weapon, and victims. Where do you draw the line? I'm interested in practi...

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Can't Learn Less: Bucky Fuller's Funny Words

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Wednesday, January 16, 2013. Bucky Fuller's Funny Words. Buckminster Fuller loved new words - neologisms. He saw himself as living at the moment when human understanding made a lot of language obsolete. Using the old words, he thought, shaped our understanding incorrectly, in spite of what we could answer correctly on tests. Sunsight" and "Sunclipse" are two Fullerisms, because the Sun does not really rise or set, on our round, rotating, and orbiting planet. You didn't even know you had one, did you?