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Slack
Looseness in the system is what allows work to get done. In his authoritative Information Payoff: the Transformation of Work in the Electronic Age (1985), Paul A. Strassmann observes that there is an enormous amount of invisible slack in routine … Continue reading
Piltdown Mashup
Exhibit A http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piltdown_Man Exhibit B http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodtimes_virus “Good Times” virus, a hoax or mere performance of a virus in the mid 1990s that uncannily created an effect very much like a real “worm” virus: it prompted users to pass on warnings … Continue reading
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less-slower-worse
At first I was taken by this tack to the lifestyle of rush. Then I read more slowly and realized that what is proposed is less about “taking time” and more about “controlling rhythm”. Try to read this not as … Continue reading
Cubicle Chronicles
Once upon a time there was a big bad employer (short-sighted employer who wanted to gut the collective agreement provisions for job security and merit pay — clawbacks which attacked the younger workers and would hobble the employer’s attempt to … Continue reading
Addressing Rhythm
A passage in a review at intercapillary space suggests reading Lisa Robertson The Men besides Djuna Barnes The Book of Repulsive Women. Edmund Hardy writes “A man is another person – a woman is yourself,” as Nora observes in Nightwood. … Continue reading
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Inoculated
Jason Taniguchi VERY SENSIBLE STORIES AND POEMS FOR GROWN PERSONS from “The Plague” entry to “The Genre in Brief (100-word stories)” Even those few individuals who did manage to panic were met with equanimity by their neighbours; for it had … Continue reading
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Mortal Musings
Robin Romm’s narrators interject into the telling miniature meditations on the nature of dying and the consequences of death for the surviving. These are not just of the memento mori variety. The story “The Tilt” which gives its name to … Continue reading
Elevator Speech
This is a a snapshot of the type of work I do in my day job in the civil service and in the domain of relationship management and partnership development. The what: Sustaining Social Capital Connecting People for Knowledge Exchange … Continue reading
Unseverable
Juliana Schiesari put me onto Kathleen Woodward and her insights as to how the mourning process may vary with age. The notion of attachment to life is commonly cast metaphorically in terms of bonds, ties, and threads. When we speak … Continue reading
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Elevations versus Liberations
After a chapter that anatomizes the gender politics of Ficino’s meditations on melancholia and which provides an incisive alternative by way of Hildegard von Bingen, we come across this conclusion. Hildegard also traces a crucial difference when she speaks of … Continue reading
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