At, if I make it near your area, I'll call for the dinner. But for
some of those other symbiosis advantage rather than the financial
one.
I am happy with the list. It is the structures for extending beyond
the list in more focussed ways that interests me.
I would love to find a way to contribute some of my more detailed or
more current stuff with others. I cannot afford to do it and to look
after my clients and develop more and feed may own requirements. The
complex of my life, including financial but far from limited to that
domain, does not allow for it.
I think the "banking" idea is coming and that will be one part. I
think also that providing "virtual meeting rooms" or other restricted
and paid for space will be important.
What if Ben said to those of us who have expressed interest or might
do so if the offer was clear, "Meet me at a certain address and send
me a cheque (credit card payment, etc) for X and I'll share the
details and explore those with you." The problem that I see is that
Ben will have to pay for the space and hope someone comes.
George Por is offering such space and I guess we could buy it from
him now.
I think part of what is missing is respect for the author. (No, I'm
not whining. I write here for what it contributes to me and do not
expect anything. Yes, I am one who would love to alter the economics
so I could make more living in this medium.)
For example, John Warfield is a genius creator previously on this
list and offering much insight and sharing of his work. He was
extraordinarily generous. He has now started his own list and no
longer participates here. I suggest the reason he is not here is not
financial but that he did not get sufficient interest AT THE LEVEL HE
REQUIRED to make participation rewarding for him. There was no way
for those (maybe too few) of us who wanted to go deeper to do it in
this forum.
This is not a criticism of the forum. I can't read all that comes
through now. I couldn't handle more depth on even a few issue if
they were part of the mainline. But what about references to the
sources of these deeper conversation?
And then we're back to the respect of the author. What would it take
in time, attention, effort from John to engage with those of us who
really want more?
This forum provides a richness of approaches, of questions, of
possibilities and perspectives. That provides a forum for
challenging my own thinking. What is missing and needs another form
- but preferably not disconnected - is for those few ideas/ people
with whom I want to go deeper.
How can I be bitter about what I voluntarily share with the world
being used in whatever ways it will? How can I be bitter when I get
to play with people from all around the world at any time. How can I
be bitter when I can go to South Africa, or probably almost anywhere
in the world, and meet people who would love to buy me dinner - or be
bought dinner by me?
No .... I think I'll just keep enjoying it.
--
Michael McMaster : Michael@kbdworld.com
web:http://www.vision-nest.com/BTBookCafe/TIA/TIAmap.html
"I don't give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity
but I'd die for the simplicity on the other side of complexity."
attributed to an Amercian Chief Justice
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