How collective is our intelligence?

Neuron based intelligence has reached its limits. Collective intelligence is the model of adaptation. But we must adapt faster than ever before.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-limits-of-intelligence

my apologies is not something i will continue to write

2009 photos to come

just as soon as i can download and copy and upload and post.

for now.

whew

i mean

whew

happiness and loveletters

lets make things better

cheers

one month in new york:

visit friends and see what they are up to. see what people need.


1. professional investment
a. inspiration
b. mentorship

2. network
a. conferences - potential content
b. brandcenter

one month in new york:

1. professional investment

Clean my room

make sure wires are connected

go to bank
get online banking figured out


talk to forrest

Organization lost

Things to remember

the beach vacation

(the image looks better when you click on it)

Focus = work

Patience

I had a very pleasant day, thank you Kashi.

just for the moment

i think i am back in love

i realize i love selling the future as i think it could impact the present

we all express/speak/move/fart/obsess about something

and we all happiness

The Mission with Alice and Verrochi

water

Every Day Earth Day

overthink overthing

Will be missed

Notes

getting things done in the unfinished city

i drove down third from western to traction (with a short stint of fourth) after having three cavities filled. i fell a little bit in love with los angeles again.

when i finally made it to the inside, i had enough time to read the first place before the discussion began.

as we walked back i admired the collective mess of the studio, the cardboard sculpture on the ceiling, the dual projected screens.

measure r passed adding a half cent sales tax over thrity years resulting in $40 billion for transportation measures.

first place mastransit. loop

the day was an award ceremony for an open call for submissions:

A New Infrastructure:
Innovative Transit Solutions
For Los Angeles

Two things stuck out most in the two hour presentation.

1. Galye, the director of planning for the city, the "closest to implementation and practicality" called Los Angeles the "last big unfinished american city" we take part in who we become and what place we inhabit.

2. Los Angeles is not like other cities we have the ability to have breakfast in the desert, lunch in the mountains and dinner by the ocean. that is part of the beauty of living here - this was one of the last comments raised by a member of the first place team

my favorite part of the day was eric, a late entrant to the commentary who was a little bit honry, literally staring down the crowd at times and instigating the other panel members. he was insistant that the discussion continue and that there is "not a mechanism or will in place to take on the type of things proposed." That there needs to be authority to experiment in particular areas. Things can not be handled by a project by project basis and we should lead the discussion in the same way it is done around rebok. "intelligible vs. piece meal"

other thoughts of note:

- "solve individual movement in the city"
- the first cent tax passing was in 1980 and it relied upon 19th and 20th century technology - now we have information technology in plans

March 27th the conversation moves to the Metro from 2 - 4 to discuss implementation
April 4th A New Infrastructure Discussion: Transit And The City (MAK Center at the Schindler House)
April 14th A New Infrastructure Discussion: Transit and The Community (The GOOD Space)
June 25th A New Infrastructure Discussion: Architects And Transit (AIA Mobius/ Dwell Conference)

from here:
GOOD La becomes a collection of people getting things done
in the unfinished city

Number Two