thinkfetti

Look for the new blog at http://www.studionontroppo.com! Studio Non Troppo is a blog for information entrepreneurs.

I haven’t decided yet what’s next for li’l thinkfetti… Thank you to everyone who’s read and commented here.

It’s been a busy time at Chez Fetti, not that this is a good enough excuse for the posting lacuna. Conducting concerts in New Mexico and California, teaching a distance-education course in problem solving, moving to the big (bigger) city, arranging my leave of absence from my institution…all of these will provide plenty of material for the upcoming posts.

Welcome to spring 2008!

As a way to reintroduce myself to my own blog (work has gotten in the way the last several weeks), I’ve just updated to the latest blog software. Please let me know if you notice any funny business, and I’ll investigate.

David Weinberger, in his blog, has just posted about a new patent related to faceted navigation (see my earlier post for my initial wishlist). I’m curious to see if/when this trickles down to a publicly available tool.

Choice complicates the decision-making process (that’s pretty close to tautological on one hand, but it’s not so cut-and-dried as it first seems: some constraints lead to more efficient progress to an “end,” but when there are too many constraints, the “end” might be in the wrong spot), but choice is also empowering (if also effort- and time-consuming). I would imagine the “optimal” amount of choice for efficient - and effective - navigation of solution space is going to turn out to be context-sensitive both locally and globally.

I’m sorry for writing on such an abstract level (fleshing this out in writing with concrete examples will have to wait until I have more time available), but I’ve just finished reading Duncan Watt’s Six Degrees, a primer on network science, and as a result, I’m seeing evidence of networks everywhere.

Socorro, in addition to being the town where I live, is the Spanish word for “help!” as all my friends in other places know by now.

I’m back in Socorro from my holiday travels and preparing for the new semester, which means, among other things, that I’m digging out from the piles of emails and next-actions waiting for me.

I’m feeling pleased with the Getting Things Done system I got going in December - I have it to thank for the fact I’m only feeling that I have many, many things to do, instead of feeling overwhelmed with the many, many things I have to do.

I expect to have a more active posting schedule soon, with news of networks, probability, music history, conducting, and creativity/art/design - well, lots.