Most tree houses are houses on stilts built around a tree. That's boring. Thus book has a few good ideas. Its more of a picture book than a technical how to.
Sunday, June 23, 2013
Friday, June 21, 2013
How Proust can change your life.
I'm reminded of the psychologists joke, "That all research is me-search" Proust went well beyond that. He believed that when we read, we take in what we want to take in. We see what we want to see. Of course all research is me-search. Most everything we do is self serving.
Proust wanted us to open our eyes, to see beauty in simple things and rich things, but mostly to open our eyes to see beauty where it exists. that the judgment of what is beautiful exists separate from other judgments.
.... To no rely on idols, to think for ourselves.
... to pay attention
Perhaps this is just what I want to see in Proust.
The most powerful Idea in the World
... the patent system adds the fuel of interest to the fire of genius.
This book is the story of the steam engine, the industrial revolution, and how the patents system fueled that.
I'm amazed how little the system around the patented inventions has changed in 200 years. When the steam engine was being invented, there were patent trolls, people stealing ideas without paying for them, people working around patents, the list goes on. Replace "steam engine" with any modern technology, and those stories could be told again today.
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