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-- Critt Jarvis (critt@critt.com), August 12, 1999

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Interconnectivity

linear and non-linear

loose and tight coupling

brittle and resilient

redundancy

-- Critt Jarvis (critt@critt.com), August 12, 1999.


Rethink and reframe the process of complex systems.

How do we state the problem?

How do we understand the nature, the probability and impact of complex system failure?

Is there enough history for us to understand the probability and impact of multiple complex systems failures?

How might we respond to the isolated failures of those processes we depend upon?

Reference: Chick Perrow's Normal Accident Theory

-- Critt Jarvis (critt@critt.com), August 12, 1999.


Stolen from Stewart Brand, enhanced (reworded to fit my thinking):
Our shortened attention span is mismatched with the pace of the problem.
Excerpt from SB's The Clock of the Long Now pg 37 (italics are mine):
FIGURE 7.1 The order of civilization. The fast layers innovate; the slow layers stabilize. The whole combines learning with continuity.
The whole combines learning with continuity.

The whole combines learning with continuity.

The whole combines learning with continuity.

~ Hello, hello! Can anybody hear this?

-- Critt Jarvis (critt@critt.com), August 13, 1999.

The whole combines learning with continuity.

So what?

Well... uh... er... No learning, then uh... well... no continuity.

What's that you say? No continuity?

You got it... No learning, no continuity.

One more time, just to be on the safe side:
No learning, no continuity.
One comma, one period.



-- Critt Jarvis (critt@critt.com), August 13, 1999.

SB sez:
How do we make long-term thinking automatic and common instead of difficult and rare?

How do we make the taking of long-term responsibility inevitable?
Long-term thinking, long-term learning

Long-term responsibility, long-term continuity.

Thinking and learning. Responsibility and continuity.

The Continuum Concept Jean Liederoff (sp?)

Hmmmm... Thinking and responsibility: A Learning Continuum

~ (Hold that thought. Must go rent UHauls now....)

-- Critt Jarvis (critt@critt.com), August 13, 1999.


In the study and practice of resonant kinesiology, where I understand my body as a whole system, I have learned to quietly ask myself two questions.

What's willing to meet?

What's willing to move?

And what's rendered in the singing, in the breathing,
in the touching of, and the dancing with is relationship.

Relationship. That's what I want to learn.

-- Critt Jarvis (critt@critt.com), August 18, 1999.

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