So maybe we don't have to dissect gossamer, but we should investigate it!

One does not dissect Gossamer?

In the ziggy seinfeld episode, elaine questions a comic. she asks the editor of the New Yorker why the comic is funny and the editor tells her "it's like gossamer and one does not dissect gossamer." It turns out the editor just liked the cartoon kitty and the comic itself was not funny.

I felt like I have been the editor.

I avoided looking deeper into things using the "one doesn't dissect gossamer excuse"

IE, by breaking down things into parts, you will miss the parts as a whole. 

Or looking at it another way you can take all organs that are healthy and working and put them together and there will be no life.

Or there are ideas, crucial pieces that can't be dissected, put into words and they are the lifeforce or more integral to the process or concept than the identifiable parts.

IE what kids should be learning in math class has led to an insane amount of standards and kids who really don't understand math principals all that much.   (Years ago, I heard that the hardest question a michigan test for high schoolers was a simple question about the distance a person traveled if they.  All they had to do was use the old pythagorean theory, which they knew was a2 + b2 = c2 because they answered that question correctly, but they couldn't apply it to this situation)
However, I am not as skeptical of dissecting these ideas.

I think dissecting with a superficial scratching is the problem

IE asking lame, boring questions that you don't really care about finding the answers

IE coming up with plans that aren't potentially amazing

But when you dissect and plan in a deliberate, challenging, focused way it can be awesome (don't even get me started about the awesomeness that is the Math Lab at U of M, talk about a way to engage kids in math, challenge their brains and get them to talk about mathematical processes in a way I still cant)

I also think there are too many things where we can do sooooooooo much better.

Schools
Work
Relationships with other individuals, countries...

We have all this human brain power, we have got to come up with a way to mine it better, because right now it is haphazard and people are being wasted.

There are some people who, but so many people do not

Deliberate egineered workplaces and schools that but it is not an engineered, deliberate process.


New way of thinking by being at a company where things are not left to chance.  They have the phrase engineered to amaze.


Got me thinking how yeah we can leave things to chance but how dangerous is that?

Deliberate focus and make it interesting.

Engagement, asking interesting questions and collecting interesting data and....

then we are but for designing
And when you shift your attitude to avoiding work, can start seeing how work is what we should be doing work is fun and interesting


ARRRGGG TIMES LIKE THIS WHEN I GET VERY FRUSTRATED WITH WORDS NOT BEING ENOUGH, wish I could take pictuers and put to words, and make cohesive all the ideas that are swirling around in my head.


What/who the heck is Gossamer?

I assumed it was hotsy totsy poet. 

460 × 276 - guardian.co.uk

It turns out it is a beer, a song by the Smashing Pumpkins as well as very fine spider silk (likely what the editor was referrring to).

600 × 398 - clydesdaleproject.blogspot.com