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13 years ago @ Coach's Blog | Tr... - "Real" Triathlon: A Mo... · 0 replies · +1 points

So that settles it then: the *swimmers* are the fittest! ;)

13 years ago @ Ryan Waggoner - People who destroy ent... · 1 reply · +1 points

Remember, "Truth is an absolute defense to defamation: if what you say is true, it cannot be defamatory." http://www.publishlawyer.com/carousel4.htm

13 years ago @ Gabriel Weinberg'... - Startup micro opportun... · 0 replies · +2 points

Jung (whose thought seeded the taxonomy) is pretty nuanced about the matter. That finds its way into some, not all, of the conversation about MBTI.

<Erecting straw man>If we were prisoners of our "nature" or even our "nuture" I'd be in a bad way!</>

13 years ago @ Gabriel Weinberg'... - Startup micro opportun... · 2 replies · +2 points

Brilliant, both your spontaneous responsiveness and the generalized lesson.

Also, I really like the "side point" of your shift in MBTI. Personality is more malleable than many think.

14 years ago @ Catskill Cottage Seed - Enduring why? · 1 reply · +1 points

It's irresistible to say: Those mindful of these issues are surely "whys" guys.

14 years ago @ Catskill Cottage Seed - The view from above · 0 replies · +1 points

Funny, I was just thinking how my inability to trace a vector for more than a relative instant in life, has been an endless source of misery.

I like the way "source," as in "wellspring," crept in there!

Have to remember the journey is always toward the center. As some traditions call it, toward the Source. Yet another coloration of that word!

14 years ago @ Catskill Cottage Seed - I will follow you, wil... · 1 reply · +2 points

Richard, I'd add that your own authority, your own distinctiveness (OK, I'll say it: your own "brand") has accumulated in a manner that is more picaresque than pointed.

And is all the greater for it!

14 years ago @ Catskill Cottage Seed - Hows the Transmission? · 1 reply · +1 points

On the collective side of the matter, it's striking how older networks like power and rail rely heavily on "trunks," thus constraining or demanding certain energy flows, and rendering others "uneconomical."

Print publishing and television do the same. Costs of distribution infrastructure, plus the cultural weight of "authority," impose analogous constraints upon the informational flows they handle.

Of course, these types of networks all levied heavy tariffs on the citizenry.

Now we're living amid many Great Decouplings. The dense web we traverse allows finer shifts in direction, one option being more direct movement toward our intent. Why hasn't that ameliorated our propensity toward "stuckness?"

Funny how the Beats and 60s counterculture, nonpareil exemplars of alienation, arose during the apex of the former model. Our present-day melancholy seems far more inchoate.

14 years ago @ Catskill Cottage Seed - ...from the inside out · 2 replies · +2 points

Your most incisive musing yet: stirring, plangent. It embodies its own point perfectly!

14 years ago @ Catskill Cottage Seed - Just as I left it, or ... · 1 reply · +1 points

Doesn't it follow from Heraclitus that you *can't* regress? But we all know better...

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