Thank you for allowing me to be a recipient of your blog and the thoughts expressed therein. For the first time I think I am getting to know the real Brennan instead of superficial observation. Given that you possess 1/4th of my DNA I am beginning to understand some patterns in your thoughts. It takes me back about sixty years when I was trying to figure things out once I got a life of my own, away from my family of origin.
I voluntarily forced my emancipation at age 23 by enlisting in the US Army during the height of the Vietnam war. It was certainly effective and unpleasant but in retrospect, I have no regrets which I am glad to say.
I have indulged in extensive "paralysis of analysis" in an effort to get more productivity out of myself during a given 24-hr. period. I still do this at times. My experience with this is that life doesn't lend itself to convenient quantification. Rather it is capricious and spontaneous.
My energies seem to ride of waves of stimulation such as replying to your blog, or inspiration when playing the piano or editing pictures. As for planning trips, I seem to have limitless time and energy which can carry on for hours unless I tell myself to quit lest I default into sleep deprivation or a missed deadline.
Archimedes solved a riddle in hydraulics while taking a bath when he observed his displacement of water weight was equal to his weight in flotation, independent of volume. Mozart probably hear melodies in his sleep before writing them down later. Hemingway had an upstairs, remote retreat where he could be by himself to write, when he wasn't suffering from "writer's block."
Your present social experiment is an application of the Gestalt theory wherein "the whole is greater than the sum of it's parts." A reverse application of this is a platoon of soldiers marching toward a bridge ore commanded to break cadence lest the bridge collapse due to adverse harmonics. For this reason, it is possible that your small group of twenty or so individuals might accomplish more than 200 or even 2000 individuals isolated separately.
Already you will be able to take away some culinary and entrepeneurial skills plus a chance to develop your IT theories with like-minded colleagues. In the meantime, you might want to develop some working relationship with someone skilled in auto mechanics. I have been through similar scenarios myself.
I am happy for the learning opportunity being presented for you and Mattea. I look forward to your future blogs.
Can these dialogs be saved and archived for later printing>
Thank you for allowing me to be a recipient of your blog and the thoughts expressed therein. For the first time I think I am getting to know the real Brennan instead of superficial observation. Given that you possess 1/4th of my DNA I am beginning to understand some patterns in your thoughts. It takes me back about sixty years when I was trying to figure things out once I got a life of my own, away from my family of origin.
I voluntarily forced my emancipation at age 23 by enlisting in the US Army during the height of the Vietnam war. It was certainly effective and unpleasant but in retrospect, I have no regrets which I am glad to say.
I have indulged in extensive "paralysis of analysis" in an effort to get more productivity out of myself during a given 24-hr. period. I still do this at times. My experience with this is that life doesn't lend itself to convenient quantification. Rather it is capricious and spontaneous.
My energies seem to ride of waves of stimulation such as replying to your blog, or inspiration when playing the piano or editing pictures. As for planning trips, I seem to have limitless time and energy which can carry on for hours unless I tell myself to quit lest I default into sleep deprivation or a missed deadline.
Archimedes solved a riddle in hydraulics while taking a bath when he observed his displacement of water weight was equal to his weight in flotation, independent of volume. Mozart probably hear melodies in his sleep before writing them down later. Hemingway had an upstairs, remote retreat where he could be by himself to write, when he wasn't suffering from "writer's block."
Your present social experiment is an application of the Gestalt theory wherein "the whole is greater than the sum of it's parts." A reverse application of this is a platoon of soldiers marching toward a bridge ore commanded to break cadence lest the bridge collapse due to adverse harmonics. For this reason, it is possible that your small group of twenty or so individuals might accomplish more than 200 or even 2000 individuals isolated separately.
Already you will be able to take away some culinary and entrepeneurial skills plus a chance to develop your IT theories with like-minded colleagues. In the meantime, you might want to develop some working relationship with someone skilled in auto mechanics. I have been through similar scenarios myself.
I am happy for the learning opportunity being presented for you and Mattea. I look forward to your future blogs.
Can these dialogs be saved and archived for later printing>
Ivan Christensen