the moha report

Jeffery Combs: Don't take it personally. Do your best not to get your feelings hurt when you are confronted or someone verbally attacks you. When you hold onto these feelings of anxiety you feel rejected, abandoned and resentful. Do your best to not overreact and don't lose your composure. These are the feelings the other person is attempting to provoke. Let go and foregive as quickly as posssible.

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Every year, I see the design cycle shrinking. As a discipline (of design) we have reached the inner limits of our creative gestation – in other words, the minimum time it takes to innovate. Creativity = Area of Focus (Existing Knowledge + New Discovery) * Time. The time in this equation is used to think. We are often expected to do more with less time. While you may have had the luxury of time in school and occasionally in the design industry, get ready for a much faster paced process. And to keep the insanity at bay, read Carl Honore’s In Praise of Slowness.

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The transition from compost concepts to landfill technology

A business does not have to be profitable; it has to be enriching. Versus the not- for- profit models, which operates at a sinkhole for outsourced funds, in a tribal model a business has to only break even. What is the process of circulating wealth around a community in a 'fertility from within' model?

The exponential nature of the task of education and the dissemination of information in the light of the rate of increase of human population

See also, the exponential nature of information itself in the face of so much humanity.

A specific goal: the evolution as a mitigation (see alexander technique) of certain habits, naturally human, which are expressions of our evolutionary advantages in our enironmental past that are now detrimental because of the effect they have had on the development of our environment. Especially, in situations where an increase in population leads to a sudden and marked shift in the balance of ecology.

A comparison of promissory notes; views of programmatic visions and their guides to conduct, vis full moon feast, of water and the spirit, and the path to perfection.

A legitimizing of indigienous viewpoint and the spreading of ideals,

Is there a possibility for language or symbol/process oriented leaening designed for the mitigation of ego development? It seems like, for example, object permanence in development reflects the process by which (according to buddhist psych) the mind projects and then solidifies the world. (v. the development of ego, Chogyam Trungpa, from overcoming spiritual materialism) The stages of development also appear similar ro common threads in creation myths, esp mesopotamian, and others worldwide.

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Connect the value of timeshares in edible alchemy to the time embedded in the produce itself; units of time compare value of administrative, farming, driving (gas!), etc.

Nutrient density and diet considerations; a comparison of vitamin and mineral sources.

What are the comparative quantities required for different activity levels, genders, blood types, of various types of nutrients, and is vegetarianism a feasible option?

Claude Lévi-Strauss on pseudo-theory

Claude Lévi-Strauss has died at age 100. Here is The New York Times obiturary.

The chapter on evidence corruption in my Beautiful Evidence opens with this brilliant paragraph from Levi-Strauss:

First you establish the traditional "two views" of the question. You then put
forward a common-sensical justification of the one, only to refute it by the other.
Finally, you send them both packing by the use of a third interpretation,
in which both the others are shown to be equally unsatisfactory.
Certain verbal maneuvers enable you to line up the traditional "antitheses" as
complementary aspects of a single reality: form and substance, content
and container, appearance and reality, essence and existence, continuity
and discontinuity, and so on. Before long the exercise becomes the merest
verbalizing, reflection gives place to a kind of superior punning, and
the "accomplished philosopher" may be recognized by the ingenuity with
which he makes ever-bolder play with assonance, ambiguity, and the use
of those words which sound alike and yet bear quite different meanings.

Claude Lévi-Strauss, Tristes Tropiques (Paris, 1955; London, 1961), 54.

-- Edward Tufte, November 4, 2009