My simplicity/complexity trend meter is now up and running. In addition to tracking the ebb and flow of simplicity and complexity, it also observes a variety of statistics that illustrate the greater complexity in our world.
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Jul 24, '06
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Brilliantly beautiful thoughts by Italo Calvino on simply everything. It is the one book that I could not live life without. |
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In the first two chapters, James Surowiecki makes a case for the group outweighing the individual. I wish I stopped at the end of the second chapter, but the group made me read the rest of it. |
books, key 2: open 
(1) Jul 23, '06
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Prescient work by a man in touch with his time. Lewis Mumford makes the early 1900s look an awfully lot like the late 1900s. And he wasn’t even trying to do so. |
books, key 1: away Jul 23, '06
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According to Chris Anderson, adding up all the little things really matters. Gee, infinity’s an awfully big number. |
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