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  • Has it begun to sprout?

    "That corpse you planted last year in your garden,
    Has it begun to sprout? Will it bloom this year?"

    T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land
    • death
    • growth
    • gardens
  • The role of history in structures

    Although the ideal crystal lattice of a substance at equilibrium depends only on its composition and temperature, all other aspects of the structure of a given bit of polycrystalline matter depends upon history…the manner in which the crystals impinge to produce the grain boundary as a new element of structure which itself changes shape in accordance with its properties and the particular local geometry resulting from historical accidents. Far more complex, but in principle similar, things occur in biological and social organizations.

    Structure, Substructure, and Superstructure
    • evolution
    • growth

    And designed systems/objects?

  • Feedback analysis

    The only way to discover your strengths is through feedback analysis. Whenever you make a key decision or take a key action, write down what you expect will happen. Nine or 12 months later, compare the actual results with your expectations.

    Peter F. Drucker, Managing Oneself
    • growth
    • feedback
  • Mechanisms and organisms

    "Kant described a mechanism as a functional unity, in which the parts exist for one another in the performance of a particular function.

    An organism, on the other hand, is a functional and structural unity in which the parts exist for and by means of one another in the expression of a particular nature.

    This means that the parts of an organism – leaves, roots, flowers, limbs, eyes, heart, brain – are not made independently and then assembled, as in a machine, but arise as a result of interactions within the developing organism."

    — Brian Goodwin, How the Leopard Changed His Spots

    Ursula M. Franklin, The Real World of Technology
    • nature
    • evolution
    • growth
    • design
    • function
  • A lifelong project

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    One question that is still hard to answer after 10 years of working on Are.na is “what is the long term vision?” This is difficult for a few reasons.

    One reason is that we have to calibrate our definition of long term with the person who is asking the question. Are.na is a lifelong project. Our ideal outcome as a company is not becoming the next Facebook (god forbid), it’s becoming the next Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan, a hot spring hotel in Japan, and one of the world’s oldest businesses (founded in 705 AD).

    Charles Broskoski, On Motivation
    • growth
    • business
    • patience
  • What the advancing interface leaves behind

    I see in the complex structure of any material—biological or geological, natural or artificial—a record of its history, a history of many individual events each of which did predictably follow physical principles. Nothing containing more than a few parts appears full panoplied, but it grows. And as it grows, the advancing interface leaves behind a pattern of structure perfection or imperfection which is both a record of historical events and a framework within which future ones must occur.

    Matter versus Materials: A Historical View
    1. ​​From the head of Jove​​
    • history
    • growth
    • structure

See also:
  1. evolution
  2. death
  3. gardens
  4. nature
  5. design
  6. function
  7. feedback
  8. business
  9. patience
  10. history
  11. structure
  1. T.S. Eliot
  2. Ursula M. Franklin
  3. Peter F. Drucker
  4. Charles Broskoski