This entry is part 1 of 5 in the series SystemsLess than eighty years before I was born, in a country built on murder and piracy, a country that did not recognize international patents and copyright law, a country that until only forty years earlier, had allowed human beings to be bought, sold and used…
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The System Will Set You Free
by khatzumoto
This entry is part 2 of 5 in the series SystemsNot a line you’d necessarily expect from a smoothie-guzzling quasi-hippie like me, who spends too much time exposed to the Steve Pavlinas, Tim Ferrises and Chris Guillebeau’s of the world — and a few years ago even burned his suits like so many feminists’ bras…
The Search for the System: How I Found One, Why You Need One
by khatzumoto
This entry is part 3 of 5 in the series SystemsAny sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. ~ Arthur C. Clarke As much as I love “Star Trek”, I’m actually rather weak on the movies, especially the TOS ones (the The Original Series ones — I know, redundant redundant, right?). I’ve seen all the…
Why The System Won’t Set You Free
by khatzumoto
This entry is part 4 of 5 in the series Systems“The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.” Alfred North Whitehead Why won’t a given system set you free? Because you can’t change it. A system you can’t change is a prison. A man-made system you can’t…
There Is A Magic Silver Bullet
by khatzumoto
Looking for silver bullets is the silver bullet. The very act of seeking awesome solutions — magic silver bullets — is itself what will lead you to find something or some combination of things. You keep asking high quality questions, and you start getting high quality answers. Just to keep things moving, you might want to keep using regular bullets while you search for them magic ones, but…yeah, I mean, you don’t stop driving cars until you can figure out how to travel faster than light speed, right?