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Divided We Fall
It is hard to imagine there being much joy in the White House this morning. The Associated Press headline writer applied the adjective “epic” to the Democratic defeat in the Massachusetts Senate election. The lead paragraphs, in the ...On-the-Job Learning the Microsoft Way
We now accept as axiomatic that proposition that, whatever your job may be (assuming you have one), you will have to be learning new things about how to do it while working at it. Microsoft has decided to take a proactive approach to this proposition...The Violence of Crowds
Perhaps the most compelling reason for skepticism concerning the “wisdom of crowds” is the strong case of historical evidence that, with the reinforcement of a crowd, the individual is more inclined towards violent action than towards considered...Making Our Own Listening History
I just finished reading Chloe Veltman’s latest post to her lies like truth blog under the title “Should Composers Conduct Their Own Works?” The claim she was trying to warrant was that, over the course of the two Project San Francisco...More Disconnected Dots
It has often observed that one reason why metaphors communicate so effectively is that they have extremely strong staying power. That certainly seems to be the case with the application of the connect-the-dots metaphor to missed opportunities to detect...Alone with the Beauty?
I suspect that one of the major downsides in following that “Monk-Amram” path of finding the beauty in a performance of music and disregarding “the rest of it” is that the trip down that path can be a lonely one. Not only does...The Tyranny of the Now
Once again, I find myself revisiting the proposition that the very concept of history is alien to our current culture. As a rule I have written this off as an unanticipated consequence of the world the Internet has made, but I found an interesting...Looking for (and Finding) the Beauty
I had an interesting encounter with Thelonious Monk’s advice (by way of David Amram) this morning. This was that advice I discussed on Sunday about finding the beauty in a performance of music and disregarding “the rest of it.” ...
