I’ve been spending the weekend at a conference on spontaneous orders, also known as complex adaptive, emergent, or self-organizing systems. In the human world what those terms, and some equivalent ones, point to is how certain kinds of order can arise even though no one is in charge, and as a result the chances for anyone picked at random from within that order to successfully achieve his or her plans is enhanced. There are many
Read more →I’ve been scurrying about and making lists preparing to leave for my big adventure starting this Saturday: the road trip of a life time to the Yukon. It’s been very hard to think about blogging. I’m picking a friend up in Arcata Saturday, maybe squeeze in a purifying before-trip sweat, and then heading to the far north with a short stop on an island off BC’s Sunshine Coast. We’ll drive up the west side of
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