“Criticize By Creating”

P.S.,
To the best of my knowledge Michelangelo used to take a stone block and delve out what he
judged as unnecessary. That is how he created his immortal statues. It is curious to verify
if following this unique method, some cultural creative philosopher will obtain similar results by cutting out with no urgent reason his appendix . Maybe a better man, not necessary immortal will show up, since less is more? Or The Great Gatsby himself will appear? Who
knows? -The future is always ahead.

"To the best of my knowledge Michelangelo used to take a stone block and delve out what he judged as unnecessary."

Fascinating. Thanks for sharing, Mike.

Tara,
Reading the post and all the comments generated, creates a feeling that one has to plunge into abstract thoughts in order to escape concrete reality and get some relief. Ala- To define is to kill; to suggest is to create. The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore ,all progress depends on the unreasonable man!?
Concerning simple solutions:"Everything should be done as simply as possible, but not simpler."- Albert Einstein.
To unify the style of the deep thoughts discussion that seems to be going on in the blog all I can say, when asked what my father does for a living is the following:
He builds trees, evaporates clouds, looks for flying pigs, cuts branches, plays with bananas and sometimes he is an evolving cucumber.
Oh! I was about to forget: What a great post. What mind bursting insights. To infinity and
beyond!
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I suppose this is a blog celebrating the unreasonable humans among us. Those who believe that the world is something to be adapted and changed, improved and redesigned. To all the crazy fools!

I think we are seeing there is more than one way to make a living. It can be aligned with your purpose and sense of mission.

When we see something that we don't like or don't agree with (cube farms) we can just sit back or do something. Build something. Create something. Do you think work is evolving or going back to smaller business and more horizontal?

Could it be a bit of both? (We both seem to like to answer this way;)

I think business is evolving to realize that bigger isn't necessary better and that less isn't always more. I think we will continue to understand that for some businesses, bigger works better but for others, simplicity is key. Personally, I'm excited for the day that we wake up to the fact that animals aren't like a Rubik's Cube and can't be mass produced. Organic and natural-raised farming is a perfect example of the evolution of business from small to large and back to small again.

I'm confident that we will continue to evolve and come to understand the more efficient ways of filling our needs.

Ahh, living in the BOTH-- AND tension. Tough but good place.

>Each of us is criticizing business by creating enterprises based upon healthy, happy people doing meaningful work.

Are you sure it's been thought about to that extent, rather than people simply doing what they want?

Oh, I would never argue that it has been thought out. Hardly. I think it is simply our natural inclination, rather than to complain or be passive or wave signs, to simply create something better. We don't need to be conscious of it, though it's always fun to be.

Great post.

Thanks, Ananda.

Now, were I the cynical type, I'd view comments like this (identical to your last one) as either gratuitous suck-up nonsense, or simply an effort to get exposure.

Tara, that post is a great example of "less is more." When I post, I think I try to write the great American Novel or Great American Bio and end up talking to much. :) Yes! When we create healthy enterprises that put our world and our community on an equal basis with our profit, we are criticizing the way most businesses are run.

Thanks for sharing!

hehe, thanks, Bill. I often fall into the trap too of thinking a lot of words equals a ton of meaning. Silly us;)

Less isn't more - that's just a dumb cliche.
It can often be better, though.

So, the real statement then is "less can often be more". We aren't big on definitive statements anyway;)