Comment on Node ant

Manjit Syven Birk — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 22:13:23 -0400

Since I practice emergence and I live emergence, I guess there is a 11th natures rule of business survival:

11. Grow in emergent environments and avoid completely non-emergent ones.

Comment on Node ant

Manjit Syven Birk — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 22:04:23 -0400

Kit, Shakespeare summed it up best when he wrote "there is nothing good or bad but thinking makes it so".

Comment on Node ant

Manjit Syven Birk — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:43:45 -0400

In 1999 I had my toddlers at home with me:

http://lists.topica.com/lists/cluetrain/read/message.html?sort=a&mid=130...

The principle lesson I learned over the last decade, especially in terms of my kids was "grow as they grow". In these dire economic times when many people are silently and honourably struggling to make ends meet, ten years on, the strength of those relationship is summed up by being open to my kids teaching me as much about life as I am able to tell them.

Comment on Node ant

Manjit Syven Birk — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:20:25 -0400

Did you catch this piece about the Brain-Twitter interface here:

http://www.physorg.com/news159453062.html

I have a great personal interest in how we interface with media beyond these interesting developments related to physical interfaces. Dr Donald Struss was asked recently on a Canadian TV program where he would rate the understanding of the human brain on a scale of 1 to 10. He estimated at about "1" !!

Comment on Node ant

Manjit Syven Birk — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 01:39:03 -0400

I do not believe it !

I was just going through Adam Gordon's blog at FutureSavvy and I come across another 90 year old with an interesting and authentic pedigree, this time Peter L. Bernstein. That makes it three in a relatively short space of time that are no more but have caught my respectful attention.

That might tempt a belief that things come in three's, and if that is the case, so that should be a relief to any 90+ reader who may be reading this.

http://futuresavvy.net/2009/06/peter-l-bernstein-on-risk-and-how-risk-ma...

Comment on Node ant

Manjit Syven Birk — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 23:25:12 -0400

I did not mean to poke my head in here for a fourth time but was browsing Ellen Lupton at FC, which took me to her sister's Julia site, from where there is a link to Metropolis magazine, where I end up reading a personalized metropolis POV about Julius Shulman.

http://www.metropolismag.com/pov/20090720/remembering-shulman

I only utilize the word "inevitable" these days because I find that in life we have a habit of constantly cycling back to where we have been before. Curious but the inevitable commonality of living in an expression called "it's a small world"

Comment on Node ant

Manjit Syven Birk — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 23:11:39 -0400

Took a tour of sister Julia's site at @ http://www.thinkingwithshakespeare.org/ . . . an exquisite blend of white space and intelligence of poignant culture that is easy on the eye but welcoming to a free-wheeling but inquiring brain. I look forward to such indulgence as long as I am respectfully ignored as I engage in my own personal perusal.

Comment on Node ant

Manjit Syven Birk — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:14:11 -0400

While I do appreciate the 120 second response time above, this particular posting left me wandering about two other things. Who or what in my life deserves a wait time of 120 hours before I choose to respond to them, which basically means who in my life deserves a 5 day time rather than a superspeed dial one?

Comment on Node ant

Manjit Syven Birk — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:27:00 -0400

What I am looking at is Alicia Cheng's summer wall. I can only figure out how designers think through two routes. Either through the visibility of their raw passion and that is in the moment, or by observing the changes at intervals of time. In this case it would be much more instructive to me to see Cheng's "autumn wall", as well as the same picture as a "winter wall" and a "spring wall". It is the observation of the changes in these four views that would give me a far more realizable impression of her "design thinking".

Comment on Node ant

Manjit Syven Birk — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:46:06 -0400

I always like to do a personal drive-by check lest I join the crystal ball gazing business (no matter how profitable it might actually serve to be). If there is a mass-scale business proposition here for electric cars, just like magma, it will begin to start bobbling to the surface. In absence of a potential volcanic infrastructure for electric cars, what I can dig out of this article is right there in the first link written about Bob Reinert. The link at automobile mag is written by a writer called Preston Lerner.