April 4, 2006
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Topic: building a network
because when it all comes down to it, who you know and who you’re friends with is what matters most in life. I have been on the periphary of several netorks for a while, outdoor groups, kayaking, experiential educators, alternative educators, political groups, travel groups, beer groups, sports groups, my family group, mental health groups, social networking groups.
Recently, i e-mailed a law professor who had a letter published in the NYT about the college admissions hysteria, and we had some interesting e-mails back and forth. It’s time to take advantage of those things, opportunities everywhere. Find unusual connections.
With April on its way, I am optimistic for the next 7 months of warm weather and long days. I am looking forward to being a baseball fanatic like I haven’t really been since I was little, following all 162 mets games, falling asleep to them with the radio on, anticipating the score in the paper in the morning. Central Park bursting with people, opportunities to chomp through some books, get a laptop and start writing from anywhere at anytime. Become obsessed again w/ kayaking.
I was recently reading about “anecdotal evidence,” since I was thinking about most arguments I make being from experience rather than scientific. This led me to a site about deductive reasoning, which jarred loose a childhood memory of doing this logic puzzles, where there’s a series of boxes down:
Jane
Dave
Chris
Laura
and then boxes across
teacher
doctor
engineer
writer
and then you get clues like, Jane is not an engineer, and Chris is in a profession that works with patients.
That sort of thing, and you have to puzzle together what everyone does. The memory was totally jarred lose by something so little. Amazing.
