It’s the time to put a cap on 2011
Like they said in a movie – It’s been emotional. And on side of that it’s been highly educational. 2011 will go down in my books as the year that closed and opened many doors, windows, vents and gates...
View ArticleLearning, Unlearning, Re-learning
The point that John Dewey makes in “Education and Democracy” in the chapter “Aims of education” is that education should never aim for an end – in the sense that to educate one should always have the...
View ArticleRunning on ice
I was walking home the other day. I was just crossing an intersection and almost fell because of ice on the ground. I struggled and covered, kept on walking and smiled a bit because I didn’t fell. It...
View ArticleAbout sight – in short
I was standing outside having a cigarette. In front of me there was a fence with poles to support and one of the poles hat the sight smack in the middle of a long straight street running down. While...
View ArticleFrom userinterface to primitive sense play
I opened my fridge last night. It’s been a busy week with no time for cleaning or any domestic choirs. I found a plate full of fish from the bottom shelf that had a week old smell to it. It made me...
View ArticleGlobal Society
I was thinking about an older Ted talk from 2003 by Jared Diamond Why Societies Collapse – Jared also has a book about same issue called Collapse. Maybe it is about the order I took these topics in,...
View ArticleStochastic thinking for complex problem solving
Last week the ISSS chair David Ing returned to Taik to our absolute pleasure to talk about co-evolving systems. The basic topic line of the open lecture was about system sciences that evolve, since...
View ArticleStructural Difference Between a Complex System and a Complex Problem
The other day I started to think more about the ontological existence of a complex problem. There’s many kinds, but I often think them as wicked problems as well, since the characteristics match well –...
View ArticleUnder Pressure
A good friend of mine asked me few weeks ago to tell my thoughts about and around the notion and concept of pressure. Pressure as a pushing, pulling, weighing, bursting force that in the end basically...
View ArticleThe times we live in
Today, standing on the front lawn of a summer place – cottage – we every now and then have access to, it hit me. These times are just amazing. I’m starting to believe and understand better Louis CK...
View ArticleThe empowering infinite
This is again one of those “I sat here and…” but yeah, here we go. I sat down to a coffee shop table. I have my MBP and my iPhone – I want to work (well, wanted to instead of writing a blog post, but...
View ArticleOn labour, economy, wellbeing – happiness even
Few people around me have, by my abstraction, been pondering lately unhappiness, the murmur that one should label as the culture of dissatisfaction. Though the spectrum of this culture is vast and...
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