For this year, my goal is to spend at least a half-hour a night, three to four nights each week, trying to codify and write down all of these ideas that ahve come to me over the past six, eight, ten years ( Read more... )

Figure I'd throw this out there ( Read more... )

Or why limiting the opportunity for self-advancement and improvement to certain people, on any basis of diffrentiation, is far too dangerous.

{I just love it when I write the second half of a post first...}

"You're describing a meritocracy, and we already have that!", I hear someone in the back say.

First of all, we are not a meritocracy -- ( Read more... )

Concepts

一つ、美しさと思念に勝る物は無し。
That there are no things superior to beauty and thought.

一つ、完全な実力主義を否定する。
That use of one's full abilities is to be denied.

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Law

・意味の無い攻撃はしてはいけない。
- Do not attack without reason.

意味がそのまま力となる。
Reason becomes its own power.

(From Perfect Memento in Strict Sense)

First item on the list: the idea of simplicity, and the seductive allure of simple solutions ( Read more... )