I’m here working on a project that doesn’t yet have a name.. At some point yesterday we came up with an acronym that came out as “CREEPY’ / I cant for the life of me remember what CREEPY stood for.. but it worked. Never-mind that the project is anything but creepy.. it’s actually once of the most interesting and fun projects that I’ve worked on in many years… and the team is wonderful and smart.. . … bit still .. how can you beat ‘creepy’ for a name ?
Greetings from somewhere …. I am accidentally awake in the middle of the night, so I’ll make this quick.. i was on an airport train when diane called me from Burlington to tell me that she , hannah,. brit and deb were down town a the firehouse gallery. Thanks to the wonders of code, I was able to catch thiis picture of those pretty people standing on tn Floorish..
the rest of the day was in interesting meetings… i really enjoyed both groups of folks.. here are the folks I’m workign with tonight and for the net 2 days.. really fun
We all gathered together tonight at the Davis farm to remember our friend Elijah Todd Davis who died a year ago last night. I can’t believe its been a year already
We all walked into the big field in front of the house.. all bundle in sweatshirts against the unseasonable cold.. At the sign, we all unfurled our paper balloons and began to light the wax paper bricks that warm the air.
one by one the balloons filled with heat and took off into the cool still air.. it was magical..
was we watched them fill the sky we sent love to our friend and his family..
After a busy day I had a really nice visit with my buddy Jared. As always the conversation was wide ranging and satisfying.. but when we came to that exact point of ‘satisfaction’.. Jared shared a quote he’d just heard from the outgoing President of Israel Shimon Perez.
Perez was addressing a pro Israeli lobby group recently (don’t’ get me started on that) and was asked why Israel had been so successful in technical innovation.
He said
“The Jewish DNA doesn’t permit a Jew to be satisfied. To be satisfied is so unJewish, my God. And then if you’re not satisfied, you’re creative. You’re all the time looking how to improve things. And I don’t know a real Jewish person who is satisfied. It’s a waste of Judaism.”
What an interesting thought.. .. Lack of satisfaction as a motivation for innovation.. at some level, that’s so counter to my personal philosophy.. but.. the more i thought about it.. the more I had to grudgingly agree.. I can say that my own restlessness and insecurity about my abilities, knowledge etc has been one of the most powerful drivers for my wish to improve .. whether its something I’ve designed and built or my posture..
maybe the lesson here is to learn to go beyond that.. maybe if i could get to a point of satisfaction about myself, I could get more peace in my life..
maybe if folks like the Israelis and Palestinians could get more satisfaction. in their lives … who knows, maybe we’d we’d get real peace
