love your honesty. my dad worked w the telecom system w university in my hometown, early 70s and on. mainframes--and he cld think inside out about many things. musical and brilliant. so I am listening. keep writing and growing your edges, please. Can't wait to meet some mules and a wagon.
A mule is half donkey, half horse. And sterile. A donkey is a different species of equine, Equus Asinus. Donkeys are typically smaller and slower, but are also the most energy efficient form of work power available to humanity.
Hi Jeff. New reader here. Thanks for the essay on the functions of the phone systems I grew up with (I was a switchboard operator at one time). Very interesting.
My other comments are about your essay on reducing global warming. I think your idea of reducing speed while driving is very sound and I am personally willing to do this but realize this idea will not fly everywhere. Before I retired I lived on the road most days of the week for my job and I was on a very strict time schedule in one of the busiest metropolitan areas in the country. Driving below the speed limit would have been dangerous (and potentially deadly). I now live in a state and community with a lot less traffic congestion (and I am now retired) and so driving slower is totally an option for me.
Perhaps a direct appeal to communities nationwide wide that can potentially adapt to a slower driving speed as case studies to demonstrate the benefits of this in specific areas? Is there someone out there would like to do a PhD on this?
I've been hearing for years that driving below the speed limit is deadly.
I've been driving below the speed limit for 40 years. I have driven below the speed limit in DC, in Chicago, in Boston, in Denver, in LA. Nobody has ever hit me.
When I started driving below the speed limit I was driving over 50,000 miles a year, driving on a deadline, driving to run my business.
Driving faster doesn't save time and without question it is a major source of injury and death.
It also burns extra fuel, wears out tires and brakes faster, accelerating micro plastic and particulate pollution, and wears out engines and transmissions faster, requiring more frequent car or truck replacements.
The way you get someplace on time is leave on time. The way you get stuck in traffic is try to go faster.
McFadden and Erich Jantsch, particularly in his seminal work The Self-Organizing Universe, remind us that consciousness is not a computation, but a process of self-organization that 'happens' to us. In daily corporate life, we experience the opposite: a constant attempt to reduce non-quantifiable human flows into discrete bits and KPIs. This is the error of mistaking the map for the territory. If the mind is a systemic event rather than an algorithmic output, managing it solely through metrics degrades our ability to participate in the creative 'flow,' turning intelligence into a rigid procedure of extraction.
Very interesting description of phone systems and electronics, Jeff. Somewhere I have a bank of relays from what I think was a small town phone system, 1920's. Each relay is about the size of a shotgun shell.
love your honesty. my dad worked w the telecom system w university in my hometown, early 70s and on. mainframes--and he cld think inside out about many things. musical and brilliant. so I am listening. keep writing and growing your edges, please. Can't wait to meet some mules and a wagon.
Donkeys.
A mule is half donkey, half horse. And sterile. A donkey is a different species of equine, Equus Asinus. Donkeys are typically smaller and slower, but are also the most energy efficient form of work power available to humanity.
And they're cuddly.
Worth reading twice ;)
Hi Jeff. New reader here. Thanks for the essay on the functions of the phone systems I grew up with (I was a switchboard operator at one time). Very interesting.
My other comments are about your essay on reducing global warming. I think your idea of reducing speed while driving is very sound and I am personally willing to do this but realize this idea will not fly everywhere. Before I retired I lived on the road most days of the week for my job and I was on a very strict time schedule in one of the busiest metropolitan areas in the country. Driving below the speed limit would have been dangerous (and potentially deadly). I now live in a state and community with a lot less traffic congestion (and I am now retired) and so driving slower is totally an option for me.
Perhaps a direct appeal to communities nationwide wide that can potentially adapt to a slower driving speed as case studies to demonstrate the benefits of this in specific areas? Is there someone out there would like to do a PhD on this?
I've been hearing for years that driving below the speed limit is deadly.
I've been driving below the speed limit for 40 years. I have driven below the speed limit in DC, in Chicago, in Boston, in Denver, in LA. Nobody has ever hit me.
When I started driving below the speed limit I was driving over 50,000 miles a year, driving on a deadline, driving to run my business.
Driving faster doesn't save time and without question it is a major source of injury and death.
It also burns extra fuel, wears out tires and brakes faster, accelerating micro plastic and particulate pollution, and wears out engines and transmissions faster, requiring more frequent car or truck replacements.
The way you get someplace on time is leave on time. The way you get stuck in traffic is try to go faster.
McFadden and Erich Jantsch, particularly in his seminal work The Self-Organizing Universe, remind us that consciousness is not a computation, but a process of self-organization that 'happens' to us. In daily corporate life, we experience the opposite: a constant attempt to reduce non-quantifiable human flows into discrete bits and KPIs. This is the error of mistaking the map for the territory. If the mind is a systemic event rather than an algorithmic output, managing it solely through metrics degrades our ability to participate in the creative 'flow,' turning intelligence into a rigid procedure of extraction.
Very interesting description of phone systems and electronics, Jeff. Somewhere I have a bank of relays from what I think was a small town phone system, 1920's. Each relay is about the size of a shotgun shell.