Stepping Stone Series — Let’s say you’re fresh out of high school, or college, or you’re just casting about for a new role in society, and you don’t mind looking at screens… Let’s stop right there. When I first returned to Portland, Oregon, having been a young boy here, then left, I became a…

From: kirby urner <kirby.urner@xxxxxxxxx> To: math4wisdom@xxxxxxxxx Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2023 12:33:11 -0800 Math for Wisdom Thank you Andrius for sharing your “for wisdom” questionnaire. During our last Zoom call together I mentioned seeing you as like an air traffic controller. We’re all these airplanes on your radar, with various…

American History: School of Tomorrow — Those few of you who cracked open the readings of the Buckminster Fuller disciples, versus took in a few domes, chuckled about the car, will remember he talked about capitalism a lot, but not as some static entity. If we define capitalism to be a set of practices, then we…

Given my location and focus, Portland (Oregon) and curriculum development respectively, you might imagine I’m seeing the current teachers’ strike (in November 2023) as an opportunity to market my services. That would not be quite right though, because there’s no circuit directly connecting public schools with private sector entrepreneurial types…

The opposite of forced displacement is not forced confinement. The opposite of forced anything is the freedom to choose. If people have a choice to leave, then we know those who stay are really there by choice. …

From a Memoir in Progress — When I first got to Princeton, I was not only an east coast newbie, but relatively innocent of USA culture in general, having stayed with my family (obviously) when they moved from Portland, Oregon, to Rome, Italy. That was after 2nd grade, meaning I’d been exposed to the New Math…

Rather deeply buried in American history is the story of Old Man River City. The daring design, available in blueprint form, has been shelved, in part because its one of these colossal mega projects, of a kind we don’t favor in our “small is beautiful” era — unless maybe we’re…

From Silicon Forest to Greater LA — I purvey this profile of myself as localized in the Silicon Forest, where we often import talent versus hire it locally. One may do both, and parents of Iranian, Japanese or Russian descent (to choose an arbitrary representative few examples), with jobs in high tech at Intel or one of…

Typos fixed. Original version. Followup. Re: Developing a Metaphysics for Physics From: kirby urner <kirby.urner@xxxxxxxxx> To: math4wisdom@xxxxxxxxx Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2023 09:25:16 -0700 Hi Andrius — We overlap in our interest in using our Newtonian heritage, in terms of units, of time, distance, mass etc. …