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Kirby Urner
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About 4D Solutions

My little for-profit company, 4D Solutions, itself a DBA (doing business alias) of Dawn Wicca and Associates, sponsors my not-for-profit operation, my Oregon Curriculum Network (OCN), which in turn shares its content through websites, workshops, videos, conference presentations, online meetups, stories here on Medium.

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About 4D Solutions
About 4D Solutions

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Nov 21

Memo: Math for Wisdom

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. …

Curriculum

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Memo: Math for Wisdom
Memo: Math for Wisdom
Curriculum

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Nov 13

Telling Tales

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…

American History

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Telling Tales
Telling Tales
American History

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Nov 7

Memo to Striking Teachers

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…

Teacher Strike

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Memo to Striking Teachers
Memo to Striking Teachers
Teacher Strike

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Oct 31

Voluntary Departure is not Forced Displacement

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. In the meantime, we…

Gaza

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Gaza

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Oct 20

From Princeton Back to Portland

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. …

Autobiography

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Autobiography

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Oct 20

Daydreams Regarding Asylum Cities

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…

Gaza

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Daydreams Regarding Asylum Cities
Daydreams Regarding Asylum Cities
Gaza

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Sep 27

Schools of Tomorrow

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…

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Schools of Tomorrow
Schools of Tomorrow

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Sep 4

Martian Math Memo

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. …

Curriculum

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Martian Math Memo
Martian Math Memo
Curriculum

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Jul 31

Location Scouting

More World Game Playing — When I journey in Central Oregon, as I’ve been doing lately, I’m looking for ways to make university life encompass farming as well as global travel. That first part is not hard; Oregon State University (OSU) is an “ag school” to some degree, a place to learn agriculture. Sometimes you’re…

Exchange Student

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Location Scouting
Location Scouting
Exchange Student

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