Category Archives: on society

Bureaucracy

March 30 10

I have rarely met anyone who has enjoyed or appreciated bureaucracy. Maybe the people who are entrenched in it or contribute to it. There are problems of efficiency (a whole other post) that are nearly universally recognized but we cannot seem to improve. Looking at the rich history of our people (everyone) it seems like [...]

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synchronicity

March 1 10

synchronicity |ˌsi ng krəˈnisitē| noun 1 the simultaneous occurrence of events that appear significantly related but have no discernible causal connection : such synchronicity is quite staggering. 2 another term for synchrony (sense 1). ORIGIN 1950s: coined (in sense 1) by C. G. Jung. Things are duplicated everywhere. Tweets in Tweetie, across computers and the [...]

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the normal world

September 2 09

“By inverting this list, we can get a portrait of the “normal” world. It’s populated by people who talk a lot with one another as they work slowly but harmoniously on conservative, expensive projects whose destinations are decided in advance, and who carefully adjust their manner to reflect their position in the hierarchy.” http://www.paulgraham.com/kate.html

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