Category Archives: Conversation

I won’t ask you to tell your story—you contribute it when it seems to add to our conversation. :- Doug.

What can we do about the futures of gathering? :- Doug.

Some books and other writings require more mental effort than others. How do we engage our readers? Story? Questions? What do you think? What techniques have you used? To write deliberately in this manner—to engage one’s readers in an unending … Continue reading →

If you ask strategic questions of your characters, your story will come alive, move, go deeper. Do we want to ask such questions of the eleventh generation? :- Doug.

Communication of the second kind, as used by Fran Peavey, has echoes of Robert McKee’s subtext. It is what really motivates one but is seldom voiced by, or even consciously known to, that one. :- Doug.

Do those from 1719 have nothing valuable to tell us? How would we find what they have to say? :- Doug.

We’re not seeking agreement nor deference, rather diversity, innovation, and novelty: in other words, seed and fertilizer. :- Doug.

Our elder group’s conversations are models of how 300-year grandchild elders might receive our ideas. What reception do we want, expect? Respect (as in look again)? :- Doug.

How do you like to think and reflect—reading, writing, videos, song, conversation, other means? :- Doug.

Exploring: If computation is transforming information, such as by multiplying numbers together, or dividing, we are having one act upon the other. The same is true of persons conversing, only humans are much more complex “numbers” if that term applies. … Continue reading →

If computation is transforming information, and if conversation is thinking together, how are their patterns related? :- Doug.