Rodent of Unusual Size

Creating Value: What kind of value do you want? Social impact, Achievement, Learning, Security? Work experience? Income?:

I want to contribute to Making This A Better World™.  I'm smart, knowledgeable, able to communicate well, and capable of great passion.  So I want to use that to help others make things better for themselves.

I guess that makes me a potential mentor/facilitator/educator/teacher/writer/whatever.

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About:

I've been a farm worker, strike breaker in a bearing factory, camp counselor, author, speaker, minor pundit, NGO VP, NGO board member, systems analyst, and bone-idle, all at various times in my life.  I've been happily married since 1984.  I've been a software developer for over three decades.  When I became involved in open software, I started finding out what I really wanted to do when I grew up.  When I started writing articles and books, and traveling to give presentations, it firmed up even more.

I want a global village.

In The Shockwave Rider (first published in 1975), John Brunner includes the following propositions:

1. "That this is a rich planet. Therefore poverty and hunger are unworthy of it, and since we can abolish them, we must."
2. "That we are a civilized species. Therefore none shall henceforth gain illicit advantage by reason of the fact that we together know more than one of us can know."

I have found those very inspiring for more than a quarter-century, and moreso as time goes on.  I've merged them into a statement for my own guidance (only recently actually spelt out, even for myself):

"We are a talented species, and this is a rich planet in our charge.  Inequitable distribution of resources, natural and informational, is unworthy of us."

Not everyone does -- or will -- agree with that perspective, but it pretty nicely defines what I want to do when I grow up: use my knowledge, skills, and talents to lessen the inequalities.


I blog (in a desultory fashion), and tweet.

Website: http://Ken.Coar.Org/burrow/

Region: United States

City: Raleigh

City: Raleigh

Region: United States

Website URL: http://Ken.Coar.Org/burrow/

About: 

I've been a farm worker, strike breaker in a bearing factory, camp counselor, author, speaker, minor pundit, NGO VP, NGO board member, systems analyst, and bone-idle, all at various times in my life.  I've been happily married since 1984.  I've been a software developer for over three decades.  When I became involved in open software, I started finding out what I really wanted to do when I grew up.  When I started writing articles and books, and traveling to give presentations, it firmed up even more.

I want a global village.

In The Shockwave Rider (first published in 1975), John Brunner includes the following propositions:

1. "That this is a rich planet. Therefore poverty and hunger are unworthy of it, and since we can abolish them, we must."
2. "That we are a civilized species. Therefore none shall henceforth gain illicit advantage by reason of the fact that we together know more than one of us can know."

I have found those very inspiring for more than a quarter-century, and moreso as time goes on.  I've merged them into a statement for my own guidance (only recently actually spelt out, even for myself):

"We are a talented species, and this is a rich planet in our charge.  Inequitable distribution of resources, natural and informational, is unworthy of us."

Not everyone does -- or will -- agree with that perspective, but it pretty nicely defines what I want to do when I grow up: use my knowledge, skills, and talents to lessen the inequalities.


I blog (in a desultory fashion), and tweet.

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Creating Value: What kind of value do you want? Social impact, Achievement, Learning, Security? Work experience? Income?: 

I want to contribute to Making This A Better World™.  I'm smart, knowledgeable, able to communicate well, and capable of great passion.  So I want to use that to help others make things better for themselves.

I guess that makes me a potential mentor/facilitator/educator/teacher/writer/whatever.
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