I haven’t read an article in a long time with such a gigantic vocabulary. Lot of dictionary use on this one. It is still very understandable, though — so I submit to you The Meaning of Information Technology:
Human beings need to understand one another in terms of
primordial intimacies because man has no other tools for
understanding the solicitations of man. But if the size
of the world is no longer amenable to intimacy
technologies, then mankind must invent information
technologies that rehumanize the world.
Thus the
proliferation of social software on the web.
Social software doesn’t solve the communication problem — we’ve already solved that. It mitigates the drowning in information problem.
On our honeymoon, I trapped a moment in my mind when I was standing behind Mykala with my arms around her waist, on the beach in Hawaii, at sunset. And I said to myself then, “Never ever forget this moment; carry it with you as long as you live.” It’s nice to visit at times like this. Times when I just spelled “systemic” like this: “cystemic.” A little weary, but holding up still.
When I look back at what I wrote when I got into dental school, I now realize, quite plainly, I had no idea what the hell I was getting myself into. No. Idea. Reminds me of some of the letters from Confederate soldiers when they were going off to war — they had this romantic idea of what war would be like… and they were (1) completely mistaken and (2) grossly unprepared.
14 hour days are not uncommon — and that’s just the time spent at school. And yet, at this point my relationships with my family and my wife are growing so much in the little free time I carve out, that I have the strength to keep going. It’s like learning to play an instrument in the trenches — you’re always surrounded by the chaos, but there’s this little germ of truth and beauty you are nurturing.
This is a picture of the best dinner I ever had, this past September 19th. Mykala made spectacular foods: fresh bread topped with bruschetta made from tomatoes plucked off our tomato plant no more than 10 minutes before we ate, roasted farmer’s market beets and goat cheese salad (stuuupendous), and a lovely (sweet) wine. Dessert was out and about: ice cream in the warm late summer evening. Perfect.
