Emergences

I’m exhausted, but I feel that I should be writing in this more. I’m going to see about being more productive on my lunch hour. I should be able to do more than just eat during an hour.

Work is going good. I really enjoy working on the 25th floor, and eating in the cafeteria (which has excellent food) on the 28th floor.

I don’t like driving in Cincinnati traffic. But I think that Cincinnati traffic is a bit like Wright State’s parking problem, everyone bitches about it, but it really isn’t that bad. But it has given me space to look into emergent behaviors and characteristics of large systems and how they organize out of many individual decisions by individuals. This has led me to want to re-read Emergence, perhaps after I get to Steven Johnson‘s newest book Mind Wide Open.

In a way, I’m working on the same thing at work. We’re setting up rules and following through on them on which we judge companies that we contract work to. I’m in a bit of disagreement with my boss. He’s of the opinion to keep it simple, I’m of the opinion that the system gives us a whole bunch of power lets use it to make our lives and our contractor’s lives simpler, when we can get the same thing out of it. Ehh… Things could be worse, I mean at least I feel that I’m treated a lot better at Chiquita than I was at CSD. Now that I’m happy about.