http://habitatchronicles.com/2005/12/the-meeting/ Cyberspace. Virtual communities. Online games. Distributed systems. Opinion, history, advice, and silliness from two guys who've been building this stuff for a long, long time. Sat, 03 Dec 2011 16:57:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://habitatchronicles.com/2005/12/the-meeting/comment-page-1/#comment-597 Lainey Fri, 06 May 2011 14:04:23 +0000 http://brass.fudco.com/wordpress/?p=32#comment-597 Posts like this birtgehn up my day. Thanks for taking the time. Posts like this birtgehn up my day. Thanks for taking the time.

]]> http://habitatchronicles.com/2005/12/the-meeting/comment-page-1/#comment-142 Criag Hubley Mon, 19 Dec 2005 01:49:00 +0000 http://brass.fudco.com/wordpress/?p=32#comment-142 It's not appealing, but explains much: as science should. I always thought the fundamental binding force of the universe however was Stupidity: starting with the comparing of the past (memory, history, artifacts) with the future (vision, speculation, prediction). Since these can't actually be compared the attempt to equate them is Stupid: without this stupidity however we never learn to stop trusting our beliefs and thus cannot become any less stupid. Rather like the sand that makes the pearl (by irritating the oyster). Perhaps (radical notion) the Meeting and Stupidity are related somehow? Such as, one causing the other, or both caused by a third thing, or both together causing something else, or all of these, a tensegrity consisting perhaps of Meeting, Stupidity and Empathy: feeling too much for the clowns you are meeting with, and not enough for everyone who is disadvantaged by their decisions. Rather like golf where you and your buddy agree to cheat everyone else by not counting some strokes when they aren't looking. The Meeting also reminds me of what consulting for Sun was like in 1994... try to meet with someone in their office, they call in three more people who each call in three more, then the original person leaves to go to another meeting, leaving a dozen people in their office. Maybe this was how you built prestige at Sun... more people crowded into your office? Variation on the old how-many-can-you-get-in-a-phone-booth thing. It’s not appealing, but explains much: as science should.
I always thought the fundamental binding force of the universe however was Stupidity: starting with the comparing of the past (memory, history, artifacts) with the future (vision, speculation, prediction). Since these can’t actually be compared the attempt to equate them is Stupid: without this stupidity however we never learn to stop trusting our beliefs and thus cannot become any less stupid. Rather like the sand that makes the pearl (by irritating the oyster).
Perhaps (radical notion) the Meeting and Stupidity are related somehow? Such as, one causing the other, or both caused by a third thing, or both together causing something else, or all of these, a tensegrity consisting perhaps of Meeting, Stupidity and Empathy: feeling too much for the clowns you are meeting with, and not enough for everyone who is disadvantaged by their decisions.
Rather like golf where you and your buddy agree to cheat everyone else by not counting some strokes when they aren’t looking.
The Meeting also reminds me of what consulting for Sun was like in 1994… try to meet with someone in their office, they call in three more people who each call in three more, then the original person leaves to go to another meeting, leaving a dozen people in their office. Maybe this was how you built prestige at Sun… more people crowded into your office? Variation on the old how-many-can-you-get-in-a-phone-booth thing.

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