Ecosystems Defined?
I sometimes hear the word ecosystems used to describe software or business systems, and my first thought is that this is a corruption of something beautiful, like saying a tyrant is like god. But this is not a very generous thought. The truth is, the more we think we knowContinue Reading
From Verbs to Nouns
When the forces which hold molecules together disappear, as when a snowflake melts, the individual molecules – even the individual atoms – are lost and must seek out new qualiadelic relationships if they want to endure. The water of a melting snowflake will evaporate into the air, pour down asContinue Reading
Consumption and Waste
Our lives are filled with symbols. Symbols are a blessing which we started to use long ago, when we began to notice the qualia within ourselves. The result of this conscious ritualing are the gifts of thought and imagination, which we now consume, and are consumed by, voraciously. We mayContinue Reading