March 2007
95 posts
“The two biggest myths about me are that I’m an intellectual, because I...”
– Woody Allen
February 2007
24 posts
we are great, sometimes.
jeevs: institutionalized learning is Bad, stable albeit boring day jobs are sometimes just an extension of that.
olga: well some people like salaried positions. it gives them stability.
jeevs: stability is dangerous.
jeevs: stabilty is like stagnation,
jeevs: stagnation inhibits innovation;
jeevs: innovation is what makes us great.
olga: there is no room in this world for everyone to be innovative. for your innovative idea to come through, someone else generally helps along with the idea. Think of Brave New World. As sad as it is, that is the only way the society can function.
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jeevs: to an extent, most people need some stability in order to not feel completely lost, but people thrive when they're lost. You learn more when you're lost or stranded or just doing it to survive than in any other context
jeevs: because that is the instinctive context for learning
jeevs: almost any other context is artificial, forced learning. the Bad kind of learning.
olga: if you *only* do what interests you, you'd be a pretty limited individual.
jeevs: are curiosity and interest inversely proportional ?
jeevs: I think they go hand in hand. ...
olga: school forces you to see other options even if it is done through force, it might open up your eyes, point in the right direction......
jeevs: but what about curiosity ? school becomes less curiosity -- self-driven, motivated learning -- as you get further from kindergarten
jeevs: institutionalised public schools work as a tool of The System, in order breed good citizens, not freethinking citizens or even innovative citizens.
jeevs: innovation feeds success in a society, innovation is success.
olga: well of course the society isn't going to breed entrepreneurs, because it would be chaos is everybody turned into entrepreneurs. the entrepreneurs will breed themselves, while everyone else can work for them. If nobody worked for anybody else things couldn't really work out could they?
jeevs: lots of people live freelance or work as independent consultants. best of all is when like-minded individuals might come together in /small/ groups to create a stable environment for themselves but with the opportunity for innovation, something like 37signals or any of the hundreds of little designhouses that are becoming more and more prevalent today as the advantages to running your own gig become more obvious.
jeevs: I suppose it's most noticeable amongst creatives these days -- designers, drawers, writers et cetera. but coders and economists have been doing it forever, working as consultants.
jeevs: Google tries its hardest to simulate a university environment for its geniuses in order to incubate innovation.
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next year ?
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“I think we all realized this together. “This is the first time ever in my life...”
– imho, This Is Wine. [from The Pour by Eric Asimov]
Flight Patterns visualization (video) →
dog day afternoon
Sonny: I'm robbing a bank because they got money here. That's why I'm robbing it.
TV Anchorman: No, what I mean is why do you feel you have to steal for money? Couldn't you get a job?
Sonny: Uh, no. Doing what? You know if you want a job you've got to be a member of a union. See, and if you got no union card you don't get a job.
TV Anchorman: What about non-union occupations?
Sonny: What's wrong with this guy? What do you mean non-union, like what? A bank teller? You know how much a bank teller makes a week? Not much. A hundred and fifteen to start, right? Now are you going to live on that? I got a wife and a couple of kids, how am I going to live on that? What do you make a week?
TV Anchorman: Well I'm here to talk to you Sonny...
Sonny: Well I'm talking to you. We're entertainment, right? What do you got for us?
TV Anchorman: Well what do you want to get for it? Do you expect to be paid because...
Sonny: No, I don't want to be paid, I don't need to be paid. Look, I'm here with my partner and nine other people, see. And we're dying, man. You know? You're going to see our brains on the sidewalk, they're going to spill our guts out. Now are you going to show that on television? Have all your housewives look at that? Instead of As The World Turns? I mean what do you got for me? I want something for that.
TV Anchorman: Sonny, you could give up?
Sonny: Give up? Right. Have you ever been in prison?
TV Anchorman: No!
Sonny: No! Well let's talk about something you fucking know about, okay? How much do you make a week? That's what I want to hear. Are you going to talk to me about that?
Woody Allen is Harry Block in Deconstructing Harry
Harry Block: What? You have air-conditioning in Hell?
The Devil: Sure! Fucks up the ozone layer!
over coffee and cigarettes
Shelly: It's just... funny, don't yah think, that when you can't afford something, it's like *really expensive* but then when you can afford it, it's like, free? It's kinda backwards, don't yah think?
Cate: Yeah, well... the world is a bit like that, I guess, in a lot of ways.
Chindogu Clock for Procrastinators ... bloody... →
over coffee and cigarettes
Alfred: He's a very committed environmentalist.
Steve: Spike Jonze is a tree hugger? Jesus, I never would've had him down as that.
Alfred: Well... I think he prefers the term "leaf people."
jeevs sinclair: http://77percent.com … we spoke a’plenty and listened to carribean jesus music.