John Henry Clippinger’s book “A Crowd of One.” has a bunch of interesting thoughts in it. However they are not really wound into anything in particular… just left…
First carbon fiber prototype fender Scott Padiak and I made… check it out. What you can’t see it? Yes it’s micro, but also super high performance. We…
Reading a great book this morning, The Nature of Technology, by Brian Arthur. Simultaneously been having discussions with Mike Harrold on the nature of conspiracies, in light of…
always liked this word…
“art or writing of a pretentious but shallow kind, intended to have popular appeal.”
not much else to say.
Murray recalled briefly how messy things are when in the middle of a challenge. He recalled a colleague (Dirac?) who had the equations showing the existence of…
where are your allegiances:
to intelligence, or, to homo sapiens?
There appears to be an oncoming force: the explosion of intelligence. This will emerge due to the diffusion…
Prediction and Forecasting. Not to be confused with ‘arm waving’ versus numerical data. The latest quantitative predictive modeling, appears to be limited to predicting movements with in…
What does it take to open one’s mind to thoughts previously embedded, or considered fixed?
Safety, comfort? Privacy? What about stimuli?
Somehow the Museum of Contemporary Art’s marketing…
“house as one man’s monument to solidity”… I never saw that. Not that I liked Alfred Caldwell’s own house. It was too, hmmnn… dark for me. So much…
Architects are generalists. Buildings get built by specialists: contractors, tradesmen and paid for by financial specialists. Yet buildings are built for owners, an individual or entity who has…