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  1. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    Done! Once again. Now to print it and re read (it's always different on paper) and hope it's over forever.
  2. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    I WISHED I could have done that with this introduction! But I had to make it GO AWAY. Nearly done now, the last two paragraphs to make sense of ... I'm trying to make a couple of quotes make perfect, rather than approximate sense, and then it'll be over ... sort of. You know, it's never over...
  3. MikeKardec

    The Decaying Evolution of Education...

    I saw the focus on result (GPA, good looking projects, well written papers) constantly. Most of the profs I taught with took great pride in that and couldn't see that learning requires mistakes and some of those mistakes will continue beyond the end of the semester. I don't know how to...
  4. MikeKardec

    Were double-breasted suits with vests once common?

    Yeah and the "sleeker" post war design ... getting rid of double breasted suits, action backs and extraneous details. The atmosphere was seen as less formal, the slow slide into polo shirt = elegance had begun. More people probably bought off the rack too, one thing I'm often aware of is that...
  5. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    When you open the drawer and it growls at you ... RUN AWAY!!!
  7. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    There's a lot of truth in that "finally ready to write it" thing. Some times it just feels like procrastination but you are working on it at some level. I think it's a good idea to take it out and play with it a bit occasionally to keep your unconscious aware of your conscious interest. To...
  8. MikeKardec

    Were double-breasted suits with vests once common?

    I think it was the multi faceted effect of emerging out of the long passage of the Depression, the War, and years and years and years of the FDR administration. People were just really ready for a change and once the world started to rebuild there was a lot of money to be made ... finally...
  9. MikeKardec

    The Man in the High Castle

    You'll like it more the further you go into it ... but we all have to give up on "the book" when considering a movie. The book, any book, uses a great deal of your imagination to work its magic and thus, if w enjoyed it, can not be bested. Movies are like an alternate universe (to keep the...
  10. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    This material was pretty easy because I was either reacting to or improving on what my father had already written. I think I mentioned that thing about having a dialog with the material, well it's just a ton easier to write when you have something to react to ... whether that is your first...
  11. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    Thank you! Dad did his share too! I think about 400 of the roughly 1000 pages are mine, plus the editorial and all the technical publishing bits. But, like I said, I've been developing the grater vision of this project, which also additionally includes re-releasing about 40 books with added...
  13. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    It just goes to show that you are never done ... or I am never done. Well, I thought I was done with the Introduction then I put it down for a few days and now I'm rolling my eyes thinking it's too long so I'm back at it, killing my darlings and trying to reduce it by 20%, Sheesh! The up side...
  14. MikeKardec

    The Decaying Evolution of Education...

    We humans are the animals who see patterns in everything. Those patterns are interesting and worthy of comment just as long as we retain our humility about where they came from!
  15. MikeKardec

    The Decaying Evolution of Education...

    I think you've nailed the basic tension in the divide between information and industrial economies ... or something like that, I'm trying to come up with better terminology but so far failing. However, a person in either group would likely have some experience in the other, just in my life...
  16. MikeKardec

    Moore's Law

    Uploading, literally, the first five megabyte hard disk, 1956.
  17. MikeKardec

    The Decaying Evolution of Education...

    Whether we call it physical work or not, programming and many other jobs, can be very hard on the body! Harder than some "trades" occasionally. I might have mentioned this: my students were VERY sensitive about the power differential between teachers and students and used to exploit it to...
  19. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    Just remember that any good idea they think you had, it's your whether you thought of it or not because you inspired their imagination in that direction ... and that's what it all about. It's always best to get a couple of people and discover where the similarities in opinion lie. But that...
  20. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    Good deal! We all need a break, especially from politics. Doing the research also sounds fun too.
  21. MikeKardec

    The Decaying Evolution of Education...

    A lot of the trouble with education is parents paying no more attention to the qualities of a college than they needed to in order to impress other parents with where their kids were going. A good many of them get themselves or their kids into severe financial straights because they don't shop...
  22. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    I'll bet you are as busy as I am or even more ... even though I left a few of the less fun or demanding things off the list. With the overlap there is about seven or eight years of work laid out there and the film work sort of ended in 2001. I've written a couple of TV Pilots and Bibles since...
  23. MikeKardec

    The Decaying Evolution of Education...

    And I'm being slightly hyperbolic .... because it's fun. I really didn't see many open minds though, that was true. A few were good teachers, even without recognizing their prejudice. I was in a program with a great dance/performance art prof. She was very interested in my understanding...

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