The Return of the Muse

Weekly Musings – “The Return of the Muse”
J. Sweeney
August 14, 2006

“We have been away attending other matters. Now, we have returned.” – R. Captain

The slow wheel turns and summer will soon give way to the glories of the fall. So passes one season to the next, so passes the torch of civilization from empire to empire.

I left my Musings three years ago to focus on other matters. During that time I have been thinking of you and our society. I’ve been examining the fabric of things man made and of nature. No one knows what moves the heart to sing or the mind to churn, but I call her Muse and trust she shall return.

Some things moving from the back burner:
War on Movements
War as a Culture
The American Flaw of Individuality
An Economic Study of Sid Myers Civilization III
The Fractal Nature of Reality
Time: Discrete or Continuous
Measuring Performance: How do we know when our politicians are serving us?
Robotics, Intelligence, and the Big Change
Two Classes: Investors and Workers in a Global Market
DRIP Strategies for Creating Income Streams
Fundamental Constants and the Problem of Irrational Numbers
Information Value in Daily Items
Pervasive Connectivity: The Many Becoming One
The Byzantines, Machiavelli, and Life-Long Learning

Those are a few of the recent topics competing for processing time, and of course editing time. I’d love to hear your preferences. Drop a comment below or email me at josephsweeney@rcn.com and let me know what you’d like to think about together.

Good to be with you again,

Joe