The first rule of obsolescence: whatever is well made, practical and fairly priced will be discontinued or replaced with a supposedly better, but not as useful and more expensive replacement.
—there is no definition without contrast
It’s about who you are, not what you can do.
You can take a great photo with any camera; you just can’t take any great photo.
The Next Set of Problems
It’s not who but what. What set of problems you solve defines the roadmap that leads to accomplishment. Fame, fortune and the rest of it may or may not come but if there is any of recognition, remembrance or legacy it’s tied to how you solved a problem.
It’s not only the problems that everyone can see but the ones we don’t see or have not been clearly defined. They may become obvious after the fact but the solutions you provide are what people will remember, not how simple the question was.
The Brain Pool
Ten years down the road the pile of information we call data grows deeper and wider across the digital expanse. The good, bad and ugly, ensconced in spinning platters all across the globe at the ready for some unsuspecting searcher to release those sectors which contain “the answer”.
Searches like spider bites, marketing plans and tooth decay render up tens of thousands of articles, but which one contains the few or the one, specific to the needs at hand. There begins the real chore; the analysis of all that information. We must read after all, and we are helped in that we now have a smaller pile. We wonder, is there a better way?
Yes there is a better way even though it may be a bit more costly than the free search on the internet. Enter the brain pool. The brain pool is where data meets intelligence and analysis. The brain pool comes in a variety of forms, crusader groups, committees, savvy individuals and the occasional genius. Some of these are online too but you still must find the ones who have the best answer.
The best solution to accessing the brain pool is face to face meeting usually brought about by presentations, conferences, meet-ups and the like. In oder to meet people who are able to understand things a search bar could dream of, it takes time, money, travel, hotels, meals and a few other odd expenses. Besides all the spinning platters the addition of skill, time, talent, research and brilliance, the brian pool can be accessed at these conferences.
So, if you’re looking for answers… —it’s hard to compete with a good mind.
The Monk’s Bag
The luxury of a simple life.
The Hermits Cabin via arvesund.com
There is an awful lot of talk about paring down life to a simpler form. What becomes apparent as one begins to do this exercise is that the real issues of life come up.
What we wear, eat and do gets a new level of scrutiny and we soon discover how much we are tied to “things” and people.
To meet our physical and emotional needs is a revealing tale of what really matters. To find out how much we really need and are willing to live with or without is a telling journey.
We have gone so far so fast the train has come off the rails and this exercise is one on which we embark to bring things back to a manageable level. It’s a cycle and one no doubt explored by those who went before us.
The Monk, having given up his worldly pursuits supposedly could carry all he needed in a simple bag slung over the shoulder. The image of this fellow is freeing in that there is a release of the trappings of accumulation and wealth. However there are two very important components that we all rely on, some form of shelter and community. The Monk has his monastery and the fellowship of the others who has embraced his way. They combine to provide shelter from the elements and food for sustenance.
When you figure out how to supply these things you will know how far you can go with paring down the things in your life.
Minimalism as it pertains to space is not merely the absence of “stuff”. Of those who subscribe to the notion of minimalism in some form there are a myriad of variations but I’m talking about rooms or environments here.
Simply making it “neat” or removing all the clutter is not making a minimal statement. Minimalism can be achieved by creating relationships between objects, distance, textures and colors. But who can tell if it’s working? The owner of the space or the designer may have some idea but what about others? They make like it or may not but one thing for sure is that it won’t be boring; like an empty room.
The human eye and brain processes so much more than we imagine. We sense something but in reality our mind has processed it and returned it to us as an impression. This has nothing to do with what you may or may not have read or think about minimalism. The foregoing is based on thirty years of trying to get it right.
Big Lens
We need a better way to monitor our Tumbledge factor.
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