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Rita

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0404 - Summary/Objective
0405 -
040501 - Follow up ref SDS 36 0000, ref SDS 32 0000.
040502 -
040503 - Have received 5 letters from Rita the past month.  Submitted a
040504 - response, ref DIT 1 0001, linked to this record, to the record on
040505 - 950426, that relates frustration of the "genie in the bottle."
040506 - ref SDS 5 8599
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0408 - Progress
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040901 - Finally got a chance to read Rita's five letters sent the past few
040902 - weeks.
040903 -
040904 - Her first letter, ref DRT 1 0001, sent on 990823 thoughtfully offers
040905 - understanding of my current struggle to "communicate," and asks me to
040906 - write more often. ref DRT 1 2709
040907 -
040908 - She picks up on my comment that it is only half-true to describe Rita
040909 - as a live wire. ref DRT 1 1116  I think what I have in mind is that
040910 - Rita is quite a bit more than a "live wire," having considerable
040911 - imagination to support a lot of energy, wit, and zest for life.
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040913 - Rita offers good wishes for my visit with Kathleen on 990822, when she
040914 - and Bob came to pick up the computer, ref DRT 1 1596, and I spent a
040915 - few hours explaining things. ref SDS 38 0001  Rita notes Kathleen's
040916 - strong intellect, despite denials by Kathleen.
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040920 - Struggle of Culture and Ideas
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040922 - Rita asks for an explanation of my struggle with culture and ideas.
040923 - ref DRT 1 0980   She comments...
040924 -
040925 -     I believe we are alienated only to the extent we allow the outside
040926 -     to take over our insides.  Knowing exactly who we are on the
040927 -     inside, is the difference.  If I do not know WHO I AM, then I will
040928 -     accept as truth what others say about me. Ergo, know thyself!  As
040929 -     for communication, we can only manage what we, ourselves, mean to
040930 -     say, how we say it, and why.  We can never anticipate or control
040931 -     what others will make of it.  Nor do we need to.
040932 -
040933 - This perspective is powerful and useful for self-awareness.
040934 -
040935 - My particular struggle seems different.
040936 -
040937 - I am concerned that having discovered a better way to use the alphabet
040938 - (see explanation on 990218. ref SDS 22 7790) that lifts the capacity
040939 - to think, remember and communicate, I cannot help others grasp this
040940 - opportunity, and so am adrift in a sea of ignorance, fear and denial,
040941 - cited by Wayne Wetzel on 920110. ref SDS 1 4839 and again on 920128.
040942 - ref SDS 2 1199  I am speaking a language that colleagues do not
040943 - understand, friends shun, and everyone refuses to consider.  I fear
040944 - the opportunity is slipping away, as the prospect looms of me leaving
040945 - the scene without having passed along this secret to advance
040946 - civilization.
040947 -
040948 - Such, is the stuff of hubris; yet, no one seems to be taking up the
040949 - sword, despite analysis in the NWO paper. ref OF 2 7055
040950 -
040951 - Those most helped, and who daily struggle and cry out for a solution
040952 - (see for example the report on 950412, ref SDS 4 3920, refuse to see,
040953 - as evidenced by discussion on 990527. ref SDS 31 1233 Refusal is not
040954 - an evil design, but merely culture, i.e., inertia of success, reviewed
040955 - on 980307. ref SDS 11 3740
040956 -
040957 - Cultural challenge arises because I have found a multi-discipline
040958 - solution, set out in the POIMS paper, ref OF 1 2688, to the dilemma of
040959 - civilization's thirst for knowledge that leads to faster ways of
040960 - getting information, which in turn causes mistakes, conflict and
040961 - frustration, as explained in the New World Order... paper, ref OF 2
040962 - 1675, and Johanna Neuman's book, "Light's Camera, War." ref SDS 7 9405
040963 -
040964 - There is not a convenient path for assimilating a multi-discipline
040965 - solution.  Cultural forces prevent cognitive science from contributing
040966 - to management science and accepting input from technology, the law,
040967 - religion, journalism and investing. Technologists are equally
040968 - resistant to input from cognitive science, law, religion, etc.; and,
040969 - managers demur from the notion that any combination of ideas and
040970 - technolgy can help them. Managers attend a lot of conferences on
040971 - improving "management," and get MBA degrees, but their work practice
040972 - is unchanged from a daily process of reacting to events with a
040973 - constant stream of dialog, essentially foraging on informtion, much
040974 - like nomadic hunter, gathers, explained on 950426. ref SDS 6 4404
040975 -
040976 - Fear of accountability reviewed on 980405 prevents using intelligence.
040977 - ref SDS 12 5065
040978 -
040979 - Cite recent issue of privacy on the Internet, ref DIT 1 0754; and
040980 - mention problem of people not having enough time to read their own
040981 - mail, much less read other people's stuff, from work on 970910.
040982 - ref SDS 10 3479   The problem at S&C is an example, ref SDS 33 0001;
040983 - another is the meeting with Sylvia on 990625. ref SDS 35 2652  This
040984 - results in continual bumbling, rather than the managerial ideal of
040985 - continual learning, because people do not have enough time to prepare
040986 - for their work, as reviewed on 990817. ref SDS 37 8663
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040991 - Resume and Job Search Support
040992 -
040993 - Rita's second letter on 990826, ref DRT 2 0001, mentions a discussion
040994 - with Kathleen concerning configuration of Kathleen's computer,
040995 - referring again to the orientation on 990822. ref SDS 38 0001  Rita
040996 - compliments my work, based on discussion with Kathleen, and says she
040997 - does not need something "...that complicated," evidently referring to
040998 - SDS.
040999 -
041000 - Kathleen suggested Rita submit her resume, ref DRT 2 4402, with the
041001 - idea I might have useful contacts.  She wants to start at or above $13
041002 - per hour. ref DRT 2 4284  I do not have any contacts in the Sacramento
041003 - area, and none really anywhere that can help on the resume issue.
041004 -
041005 - Additionally, Rita does not actually submit the resume.  At least I
041006 - did not notice the attachment to her email.  I will let her know, so
041007 - she can send it along if she wants me to comment, which she in fact
041008 - requests in the last paragraph. ref DRT 2 3355
041009 -
041010 - She submits what seems to be a prototype cover letter for her resume,
041011 - or maybe it is an actual transmittal submitted on a specific position.
041012 - ref DRT 2 0002
041013 -
041014 - The letter relates grades in recent schooling, and seems to be
041015 - directed at applying for a position with the Auburn board of
041016 - supervisors. ref DRT 2 1521
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041018 - I think Rita would be excellent for any job that entails public
041019 - contact and communication.  The cover letter is great if it is
041020 - submitted to somone she knows, or has met.
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041025 - Life and Friendship
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041027 - A third letter on 990902 forwards a chain-type letter on issues of
041028 - life.
041029 -
041030 - A fourth letter on 990902 forwards a story on friendship.  The story
041031 - relates the notion that harmful actions, as for example from a bad
041032 - temper, have permenant consequences, in this case on friendships. This
041033 - is embodied in the parable of the moving hand having written, words
041034 - cannot be retrieved.  This is a lesson of life along the lines of
041035 - "look before you leap."
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041040 - Visiting Judy and Norman
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041042 - Rita's fifth letter, also sent on 990902, relates plans to visit
041043 - Judy and Norman for lunch.
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