Embracing Chaos

Hoefstede identified several axes on which cultures differ. One of them relates to whether people in a culture tend to think more about rights or responsibilities. In the US we talk a lot about people’s rights, and relatively little about people’s responsibilities. Civil rights. Bill of rights. Right to life. etc. Europeans tend to swing towards the other side of that spectrum. For example, a sense of responsibility for impact on future generations tends to leads to valuing environmental issues more greatly. The communist party line in China is also very concerned with responsibilities, but in a somewhat different way….

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This weekend I’m going to be part of a panel discussion on Music Discovery and Distribution in the Digital Age. It’s part of the decibel festival which has been bringing phat beats to Seattle for 3 years now. If you’re around and interested, come check it out!

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I ran across a neat tool to build a map of all the places in the world you’ve been. Really you can use it to highlight any set of countries you want, but the suggested usage is to show the places you’ve been. Here’s where I’ve visited: I’m leaving out places I only stopped for a couple of hours or visited before I could talk coherently. This picture makes me want to visit Russia just to mark that whole big chunk of land as red. ;)

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The first time you have to ask a friend to wipe your ass for you, that’s when you know you’re getting old. I’m only 32, but a few weeks ago that’s where I was: lying on the floor moaning, almost passed out from pain, needing my roommate to help me wipe my ass before we went to the hospital. Good thing we’re so close. You can also be pretty sure that surgery’s a good option in your future when you can dislocate your shoulder just by trying to wipe your own ass. Yay for modern surgery! It’s also a good…

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