I’m defining a duality as a pair of things that seem to often be used as opposites. Dog-people and cat-people for instance. We all know that the world cannot be easily broken down this way but we like to try. This fundamental urge to break things down into dualities expresses itself in phrases like “two sides to every story” and “there are two kinds of people in this world”.
The dualities thread in this blog is an attempt to explore the many ways we break things up into dualities. Why do we do it? What qualifies things to become a duality?
July 13th, 2006 at 9:29 am
Hi Tom, just browsing through and saw your comments on dualities. Made me think of an article I read on Wired.com yesterday (http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.07/genius.html). Basic summary being that there could be two types of genius, the early/burn bright-burn fast type, and the late/slow and steady type. Definitely an interesting read.
Cheers,
Adam
July 13th, 2006 at 6:55 pm
I’m a duality.
I just ordered your book – in hardcopy – from Lulu.com. I can’t wait to see what you’ve done with it as it’s been years since I read a draft!
I hope Steve still has dark hair, so I recognize him.