October 20, 2000: ideas on experimentation

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Ever wonder what happens when you stop setting HUGE goals and just experiment around you? Never really finding the answer to the BIG picture, but just filling the need of curiosity? You may never reach a goal, not because you weren't focused on it, but because the goal itself was irrelevant. The idea was to explore, as soon as you make a rule to follow, experimentation breaks down completely - unless the goal is to ask "what can be done" Then the goal is reached as soon as you start. You are then above the goal and the sky is open, perhaps this is a way to justify not having any justification for people who must have a goal.

Learning seems to (for me anyways) work better if I just experiment, do what I want, how I want to do it, this way, I don't get bored - I get excited. What a horrid way to teach! Or rather, what a horrid system to try to track. Learning can be sporatic in experimentations, you may not find something new for days, weeks - years! It doesn't seem to work, but the idea of experiments is that you can then share what you have found with others and your work now becomes the inspiration of others, and their work will inspire you.

Individual experimentation leads to unknown, multifaceted collaboration, bits and pieces of your work become the work of someone elses work in such a way that it's not stealing - your not taking, your borrowing, as people borrow from you .

Its beautiful.

It works.

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