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Category Archives: planning
the new planning
I came to ID thinking that Design and Planning still operated like in the 50s, setting out a five year plan or a grand vision of a shiny future. I’m finding that there’s a different kind of big-picture, a model … Continue reading
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planning is dead
Long-term planning, in its traditional sense, is dead. The ability to specifically predict the tone, tenor, overall shape, and other details of a corporation, society, family, or any other complex organization more than a few years in the future is … Continue reading
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droughts and margins
Droughts kill societies. Along with using up resources, the straight out vagaries of nature are not amenable to our long-term goals. It’s not always our own human nature that drives the death of society – although in this light these … Continue reading
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beautiful decay
Here’s my favorite part of my systems project. It kinda goes against the positive, generative mood I’ve been learning to focus on to the exclusion of my usual gloomy self, but I’m really enjoying the thought of it right now. … Continue reading
intersections
I was browsing for sources for the systems project and came across a quote from Neil Gershenfeld of MIT: …’but “the bubbles kept interfering,” Gershenfeld says. “It eventually occurred to us that we should use them.” ‘ (http://www.technologyreview.com/article/18673/) This “occurred … Continue reading
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Focus
I have thousands of compelling ideas – a dozen or more I’m sure would make a fulfilling life’s work for me. I want to be able to choose one and stick with it for the couple of decades it will … Continue reading
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planning
There will be another earthquake in San Francisco. There will be more hurricanes or tsunami in Florida, Indonesia, and Mexico. There will be more flooding along the Mississippi. Obviously these will be disasters – but more importantly they will be … Continue reading
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