Interrelativity: musings about interrelatedness
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Self-Reliance vs. Interdependence: Inherence, Adherence and Coherence
I read Ralph Waldo Emerson‘s essay "Self-Reliance" during the return flight from my New Warrior Training Adventure staffing. The essay reinforces many of the principles I revisited during the weekend, which resonate with me deeply — such as the inherent integrity of each man’s mind (and soul) and the dangers of conformity and blindly adhering…
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New Warrior Training Adventure: A Powerful Multi-cultural and Multi-dimensional Experience
I’ve just returned from my "rookie" staffing at a New Warrior Training Adventure weekend near Albany, NY: a multi-cultural NWTA co-sponsored by the Upstate NY, New England, and Montreal communities within the Mankind Project (MKP). It was a powerful experience on multiple levels for me, made all the moreso by the opportunity to participate in…
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Blogger’s Mind
Lately, I find myself increasingly adopting a perspective of "[How] would I blog this?" — coming up with evocative or provative blog post titles, considering various links I might create and thinking about photos I might upload for a post. It reminds me of a period of my life where I was a more avid…
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Playing the Edge, Finding One’s Spot and Being One’s True Self
During tonight’s Love and Logic class, Cindy Horst encouraged parents to stretch to allow children to experience more consequences directly, rather than being protected or rescued from those consequences. The Love and Logic program can be rather extreme with respect to loving detachment, and while parents may not want to adopt such an extreme approach,…
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Microsoft Social Computing Symposium: April 25-26
Microsoft Research is sponsoring a second Social Computing Symposium to be held April 25-26, 2005, presumably somewhere in the greater Redmond / Seattle area. [Update: I initially posted the wrong dates in the first sentence and the title; the correct dates are there now — April 25-26.] Like last year’s event, which was invitation-only, the…
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Entrepreneurial Passion and Discipline: Dan Rosen and Russ Stockdale @ MIT Enterprise Forum
Dan Rosen (co-founder and general partner of Frazier Technology Ventures and chair of the Alliance of Angels) and Russ Stockdale (Vice President of Marketing and Strategy for Clearsight Systems) gave a clear, concise and compelling presentation at the MIT Enterprise Forum in Seattle tonight on the importance — and necessity — for passion and discipline…
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The Source of my Breathing Dragon
I alluded to my Breathing Dragon during an earlier post on my Warrior Monk experience. Sally Wilson of Earthwing Pottery, the artist who created the dragon figure, recently replied to my email inquiry about the source of the dragon; she provided some details about the materials, people, processes and inspiration that came together in its…
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Zen, Motorcycle Maintenance and the Church of Reason
danah recently wrote an interesting and provocative blog post about "why i’m in academia", which reminded me of some interesting and provocative statements made by Robert Pirsig about what he calls the Church of Reason in his book "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" (not that I want to imply that they share the…
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Planetwork Seattle: Proactive Displays, Interra and the Identity Commons
I attended a Planetwork Seattle meeting on Sunday, and it was a mind- and spirit-boggling experience. Eileen sent me an announcement for the Planetwork Networking forum on Saturday, which invited "anyone who is either working on developing software which could be used for social networking or in other ways to address the world’s problems, OR…
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NWEN Pub Night: Beer, Pizza and Passion
I attended my first Northwest Entrepreneur Network Pub Night at Hales Ales on Thursday. Highlights include the Red Menace Big Amber (a very hoppy ale with an interesting combination of Caramel, Carastan and a handful of Black Malts), the best pizzas I’ve had since moving away from Chicagoland, and a lineup of short, passionate and…