Quoting Keith Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> If the idea of biographies on FW's site is taken further, then I suggest
>
> that they are restricted to, say, 40 words each, so there's a democratic
>
> element involved for any subscribers who are young and hitherto
> inexperienced or who do not want to parade too many personal details.
>
> What I think is tremendously important is to remember that innovative
> ideas
> nearly always occur to the young mind before it fills up with too much
> junk. So young minds are to be encouraged on FW.
How many could provide a 3 word biography, like Julius Caesar:
Veni, vidi, vinci. (I came, I saw, I conquered.)
Youth is not always correlated with innovative thinking.
Immanuel Kant did not write anything of lasting value
until he was over 60 years old --> and then he
revolutionized Western philosophy.
I suppose that's so. Darwin was also quite ancient when he finally spewed out Origins. I'm now allowing my beard to grow as long as Darwin's and maybe my success will follow. Did Kant have any idiosynscracy that I can also adopt? -- so long as he wasn't a transvestite. Balzac could only write when wearing nightclothes but it's too cold in my office for that. Arnold Bennet and Georges Simenon both said independently that what's important is to write at least half-a-million words a year -- quality will inevitably follow quantity. At one posting a day on average I calculate that I'm falling lamentably short of that. On the other hand, Hardy used to do his writing before breakfast and before starting out on his horse establishing post offices. Well I do write my postings before breakfast and then take my dog for a walk before turning to the sordid business of making money, so that's a reasonable approximation.
As for age being an advantage when writing in the humanities, then perhaps I can discover something new at my age. After all, I'm endeavouring to integrate the whole history (and pre-hisotry) of homo sapiens into my brilliantly innovative view of economics. Perhaps, at 68, I'm too young. Perhaps I ought to postpone the Great Book for another decade or so. Perhaps breeding canaries in my hoped-for olde worlde cottage for a few years will supply that serendipitous idea that will illuminate everything. I will tell the Nobel committee beforehand when the book is immient so they're prepared to move quickly while I'm still alive and before I die of some exotic canary-borne disease.
Keith Hudson
The real problem
with new ideas when you are old (or with getting a Nobel
prize when you're 80...) is that you don't have the
body to go with it or the time to savor and build on it.
In architecture, anybody under 40 is considered
too young to do really serious work. (I believe in
mathematics it's the reverse, which may just say that
mathematics is not a humanistic discipline.)
"Yours in time...."
\brad mccormick
>
> Keith Hudson
>
>
>
> s At 14:28 09/12/03 -0500, you wrote:
> >yes
> >
>
><http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/>http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Lawrence DeBivort [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> >Sent: Tuesday, December 9, 2003 2:21 PM
> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Subject: RE: [Futurework] Biography
> >
> >Are our postings here being posted to a publicly accessible web site?
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Sent: Tue, December 09, 2003 1:36 PM
> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED];
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Subject: RE: [Futurework] Biography
> >
> >OK if people want to do it, but not mandatory.
> >
> >Privacy, anonymity and all that.
> >
> >arthur
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Ray Evans Harrell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> >Sent: Tuesday, December 9, 2003 11:45 AM
> >To: Keith Hudson; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Subject: Re: [Futurework] Biography
> >
> >This is great. I think it would be wonderful if we finally arrived at
> an
> >introduction type of post where we all do what Keith has done. These
>
> >could then be put into an Introductions section at the web site and
> serve
> >as a context file for each of us as we explore these things together.
> It
> >also would be helpful if we posted the things that we are interested
> in,
> >in relation to the Future of work and how we could help each other.
> Just
> >a thought. What do you think Arthur, Sally?
> >
> >Ray Evans Harrell
> >
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Keith Hudson
> >To:
> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 9:57 AM
> >Subject: [Futurework] Biography
> >
> >Hi Frank,
> >
> >Here's stuff for my biography page. I've probably left something out --
> I
> >always do -- then I've got to fiddle the dates again!
> >-----
> > PHOTO (again!) with name
> underneath
> >
> >Born 1935; Educated at Bablake School and Lanchester College of
> Technology;
> >1957-1967: Experience in industrial chemistry, technical management,
> >quality control management at Courtaulds and Massey-Ferguson;
> >1968-69: Experience as first professional writer of learning programmes
> in
> >England with Inadcon, and wrote material for Vickers, Sloan-Duployan
> and
> >Unesco;
> >1970: Founder of Warwickshire branch of Conservation Society;
> >1971:With Noël Newsome, joint-author of report on industrial toxic
> wates
> >dumping into the countryside to Department of Environment (known in the
>
> >press at the time as the Cyanide Dossier) which resulted in the passage
> of
> >Deposit of Poisonous Waste Act 1972 as emergency legislation, the first
>
> >environmental legislation in the last century apart from clean air
> legislation;
> >1972: Founder and editor of Towards Survival, one of the first
> >environmental journals in the English-speaking world;
> >1974: Member of Midland Executive of Liberal Party, author of
> industrial
> >policy proposals for the Midlands;
> >1975: Member of National Executive of the Liberal Party;
> >1979: Founder of Jobs for Coventry Foundation, the first
> >privately-sponsored training organisation in England for young
> unemployed
> >people under the Youth Opportunities Programme;
> >1982: Founder of Interskills, training organisation in computer and
> allied
> >skills;
> >1982: Founder of Coventry Democratic Party, later subsumed into the
> >national party (below)
> >1982: Member of original Organization Committee of the Social
> Democratic
> >Party and author of starter- pack material for local convenors; author
> of
> >various background papers on future development of party politics
> >generally and governance;
> >1984: Author of Introduction to Computer-Assisted Learning ( Chapman
> and
> >Hall Computing);
> >1985: First retirement;
> >1985: Was introduced to choral singing, one of the finest experiences
> of
> >my life;
> >1986: Joint-founder of Property Portraits Limited;
> >1996: Corresponding member of Futurework List;
> >1996: Second retirement;
> >1997: Founder of Handlo Music Limited, publishers of early choral
> music,
> >the first sheet music publisher on the Internet;
> >2003: Third retirement;
> >2003: Founder of Evolutionary Economics website.
> >Deep and abiding interest in anthropology and neuroscience all through
>
> >adult life and, more latterly, into evolutionary biology and its
> >applications to economics and future political institutions and
> >governance. Hoping to move soon from Bath to the village of Winsley for
>
> >final retirement and the breeding of canaries (advice badly sought).
> >----
> >then my signature and name again, please
> >
> >Best wishes,
> >
> >Keith
> >
> >
> >
> >Keith Hudson, Bath, England, <www.evolutionary-economics.org>
>
>
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