intellectual properties

settling up

this has been going around as a meme (again), but it is particularly apt for me right now, as i am leaving work to go back to school and think about things i like to think about, without focusing too heavily about how it might translate into work:

We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian-Darwinian theory, he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living. — Buckminster Fuller

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we leave for new york in 8 days.

today is my last day of work after 12 years at my environmental public policy consulting firm.

!!!!!!

i should write more, as this is momentous, but i’m kind out of words lately.

mostly, we are determined that we are definitely not “settling down”.  we are settling UP.

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