Dealexpert's Blog http://dealexpert.wordpress.com Eric Pederson attempts to tickle your brain on matters of business, technology, innovation, deal management and, perhaps, life, 300 words at a time.. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:18:53 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ en hourly 1 http://www.gravatar.com/blavatar/a2b10a914af799b7e4b19d5263a68218?s=96&d=http://s.wordpress.com/i/buttonw-com.png Dealexpert's Blog http://dealexpert.wordpress.com Just out – The Top 100 Albums of All Time – Jazz Guitar http://dealexpert.wordpress.com/2009/11/06/just-out-the-top-100-albums-of-all-time-jazz-guitar-3/ http://dealexpert.wordpress.com/2009/11/06/just-out-the-top-100-albums-of-all-time-jazz-guitar-3/#comments Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:18:53 +0000 dealexpert http://dealexpert.wordpress.com/2009/11/06/just-out-the-top-100-albums-of-all-time-jazz-guitar-3/ ]]>

This is a great list for all jazz fans and guitar players.   All guitarists, even punkers and metal heads gotta respect the jazz cats.  Thanks to jazzguitar.be for this.

This list is like cheating to get your jazz cred. I’ll admit, I’m ashamed I don’t have more of these.  Check them out!

 

Top 100 Albums – Jazz Guitar

  1. Al Di Meola – Elegant Gypsy
  2. Allan Holdsworth – Metal Fatigue
  3. Antonio Carlos Jobim – Wave
  4. Baden Powell – At the Rio Jazz Club
  5. Barney Kessel – Kessel Plays Standards
  6. Barney Kessel – The Poll Winners
  7. Barry Galbraith – Guitar and the Wind 
  8. Bill Frisell – East/West
  9. Bireli Lagrene – Gypsy Project
  10. Bireli Lagrene – Standards
  11. Bucky and John Pizzarelli – Contrasts
  12. Charlie Byrd – At The Village Vanguard
  13. Charlie Byrd – The Guitar Artistry of Charlie Byrd
  14. Charlie Christian – Genius of the Electric Guitar
  15. Charlie Christian – Solo Flight
  16. Charlie Hunter – Bing Bing Bing
  17. Danny Gatton – Untouchable
  18. Django Reinhardt – Djangology
  19. Django Reinhardt – Quintet du Hot Club de France
  20. Earl Klugh – One on One
  21. Ed Bickert – Live at The Garden Party
  22. Eddie Lang – Jazz Guitar Virtuoso
  23. Emily Remler – Firefly
  24. Ernest Ranglin – Below the Bassline
  25. Frank Gambale – Thinking Out Loud
  26. George Barnes – Don’t Get Around Much Anymore
  27. George Benson – Bad Benson
  28. George Benson – Breezin’
  29. George Benson – Beyond the Blue Horizon
  30. George Benson – The George Benson Cookbook
  31. George Van Eps – Mellow Guitar
  32. Grant Green – Green Street
  33. Grant Green – Idle Moments
  34. Grant Green – The Complete Quartets With Sonny Clark
  35. Hank Garland – Jazz Winds From a New Direction
  36. Herb Ellis/Joe Pass – Seven, Come Eleven
  37. Herb Ellis/Joe Pass – Two for the Road
  38. Howard Alden/George Van Eps – 13 Strings
  39. Howard Roberts – HR Is A Dirty Guitar Player
  40. Jeff Beck – Blow by Blow
  41. Jim Hall – Concierto
  42. Jim Hall – Live
  43. Jim Hall/Bill Evans – Intermodulation
  44. Jim Hall/Bill Evans – Undercurrent
  45. Jim Hall/Ron Carter – Alone Together
  46. Jimmy Bruno – Burnin’
  47. Jimmy Raney – Wisteria
  48. Joe Beck – Strangers in the Night
  49. Joe Diorio Trio – Live
  50. Joe Pass – For Django
  51. Joe Pass – Virtuoso
  52. John Abercrombie – Timeless
  53. John Basile – The Desmond Project
  54. John McLaughlin – Extrapolation
  55. John Scofield – A Go Go
  56. John Scofield – Hand Jive
  57. Johnny Smith – Johnny Smith
  58. Johnny Smith – Moonligh in Vermont (w Stan Getz)
  59. Jonathan Kreisberg – Unearth
  60. Kenny Burrell – Guitar Forms
  61. Kenny Burrell – Midnight Blue
  62. Kevin Eubanks – Guitarist
  63. Kurt Rosenwinkel – Deep Song
  64. Larry Carlton – Last Nite
  65. Larry Coryell (w John McLaughlin) – Spaces
  66. Lee Ritenour – Rit’s House
  67. Lenny Breau – Live on Bourbon Street
  68. Luiz Bonfa – Solo in Rio 1959
  69. Martin Taylor – Spirit of Django
  70. Mike Stern – Play
  71. Mike Stern – Standards (and Other Songs)
  72. Mike Stern – Upside Downside
  73. Mundel Lowe – Guitar Moods
  74. Nguyen Le – Walking on the Tiger’s Tail
  75. Norman Brown – After the Storm
  76. Pat Martino – El Hombre
  77. Pat Martino – Footprints
  78. Pat Metheny – Bright Size Life
  79. Pat Metheny – Question and Answer
  80. Pat Metheny/Charlie Haden – Beyond The Missouri Sky
  81. Pat Metheny/John Scofield – I can see Your House From Here
  82. Peter Bernstein – Earth Tones
  83. Peter White – Caravan of Dreams
  84. Phillip Catherine – Summer Night
  85. Ralph Towner – Solstice
  86. Rene Thomas Quintet – Guitar Groove
  87. Robben Ford – Tiger Walk
  88. Ronny Jordan – The Antidote
  89. Rosenberg Trio – Caravan
  90. Stanley Jordan – Stolen Moments
  91. Steve Kahn – The Suitcase (Live)
  92. Sylvain Luc – Trio Sud
  93. Tal Farlow – Verve Jazz Masters 41
  94. Ted Greene – Solo Guitar
  95. Tuck Andress – Wreckless Precision
  96. Wes Montgomery – Boss Guitar
  97. Wes Montgomery – Bumpin’
  98. Wes Montgomery – Full House
  99. Wes Montgomery – Smokin’ at the Half Note
  100. Wes Montgomery – The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery

Do you agree with this list? Who was ignored? Which albums if any should be tossed? Comment please

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This is a great list for all jazz fans and guitar players.   All guitarists, even punkers and metal heads gotta respect the jazz cats.  Thanks to jazzguitar.be for this.

This list is like cheating to get your jazz cred. I’ll admit, I’m ashamed I don’t have more of these.  Check them out!

 

Top 100 Albums – Jazz Guitar

  1. Al Di Meola – Elegant Gypsy
  2. Allan Holdsworth – Metal Fatigue
  3. Antonio Carlos Jobim – Wave
  4. Baden Powell – At the Rio Jazz Club
  5. Barney Kessel – Kessel Plays Standards
  6. Barney Kessel – The Poll Winners
  7. Barry Galbraith – Guitar and the Wind 
  8. Bill Frisell – East/West
  9. Bireli Lagrene – Gypsy Project
  10. Bireli Lagrene – Standards
  11. Bucky and John Pizzarelli – Contrasts
  12. Charlie Byrd – At The Village Vanguard
  13. Charlie Byrd – The Guitar Artistry of Charlie Byrd
  14. Charlie Christian – Genius of the Electric Guitar
  15. Charlie Christian – Solo Flight
  16. Charlie Hunter – Bing Bing Bing
  17. Danny Gatton – Untouchable
  18. Django Reinhardt – Djangology
  19. Django Reinhardt – Quintet du Hot Club de France
  20. Earl Klugh – One on One
  21. Ed Bickert – Live at The Garden Party
  22. Eddie Lang – Jazz Guitar Virtuoso
  23. Emily Remler – Firefly
  24. Ernest Ranglin – Below the Bassline
  25. Frank Gambale – Thinking Out Loud
  26. George Barnes – Don’t Get Around Much Anymore
  27. George Benson – Bad Benson
  28. George Benson – Breezin’
  29. George Benson – Beyond the Blue Horizon
  30. George Benson – The George Benson Cookbook
  31. George Van Eps – Mellow Guitar
  32. Grant Green – Green Street
  33. Grant Green – Idle Moments
  34. Grant Green – The Complete Quartets With Sonny Clark
  35. Hank Garland – Jazz Winds From a New Direction
  36. Herb Ellis/Joe Pass – Seven, Come Eleven
  37. Herb Ellis/Joe Pass – Two for the Road
  38. Howard Alden/George Van Eps – 13 Strings
  39. Howard Roberts – HR Is A Dirty Guitar Player
  40. Jeff Beck – Blow by Blow
  41. Jim Hall – Concierto
  42. Jim Hall – Live
  43. Jim Hall/Bill Evans – Intermodulation
  44. Jim Hall/Bill Evans – Undercurrent
  45. Jim Hall/Ron Carter – Alone Together
  46. Jimmy Bruno – Burnin’
  47. Jimmy Raney – Wisteria
  48. Joe Beck – Strangers in the Night
  49. Joe Diorio Trio – Live
  50. Joe Pass – For Django
  51. Joe Pass – Virtuoso
  52. John Abercrombie – Timeless
  53. John Basile – The Desmond Project
  54. John McLaughlin – Extrapolation
  55. John Scofield – A Go Go
  56. John Scofield – Hand Jive
  57. Johnny Smith – Johnny Smith
  58. Johnny Smith – Moonligh in Vermont (w Stan Getz)
  59. Jonathan Kreisberg – Unearth
  60. Kenny Burrell – Guitar Forms
  61. Kenny Burrell – Midnight Blue
  62. Kevin Eubanks – Guitarist
  63. Kurt Rosenwinkel – Deep Song
  64. Larry Carlton – Last Nite
  65. Larry Coryell (w John McLaughlin) – Spaces
  66. Lee Ritenour – Rit’s House
  67. Lenny Breau – Live on Bourbon Street
  68. Luiz Bonfa – Solo in Rio 1959
  69. Martin Taylor – Spirit of Django
  70. Mike Stern – Play
  71. Mike Stern – Standards (and Other Songs)
  72. Mike Stern – Upside Downside
  73. Mundel Lowe – Guitar Moods
  74. Nguyen Le – Walking on the Tiger’s Tail
  75. Norman Brown – After the Storm
  76. Pat Martino – El Hombre
  77. Pat Martino – Footprints
  78. Pat Metheny – Bright Size Life
  79. Pat Metheny – Question and Answer
  80. Pat Metheny/Charlie Haden – Beyond The Missouri Sky
  81. Pat Metheny/John Scofield – I can see Your House From Here
  82. Peter Bernstein – Earth Tones
  83. Peter White – Caravan of Dreams
  84. Phillip Catherine – Summer Night
  85. Ralph Towner – Solstice
  86. Rene Thomas Quintet – Guitar Groove
  87. Robben Ford – Tiger Walk
  88. Ronny Jordan – The Antidote
  89. Rosenberg Trio – Caravan
  90. Stanley Jordan – Stolen Moments
  91. Steve Kahn – The Suitcase (Live)
  92. Sylvain Luc – Trio Sud
  93. Tal Farlow – Verve Jazz Masters 41
  94. Ted Greene – Solo Guitar
  95. Tuck Andress – Wreckless Precision
  96. Wes Montgomery – Boss Guitar
  97. Wes Montgomery – Bumpin’
  98. Wes Montgomery – Full House
  99. Wes Montgomery – Smokin’ at the Half Note
  100. Wes Montgomery – The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery

Do you agree with this list? Who was ignored? Which albums if any should be tossed? Comment please

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This is a great list for all jazz fans and guitar players.   All guitarists, even punkers and metal heads gotta respect the jazz cats.  Thanks to jazzguitar.be for this.

This list is like cheating to get your jazz cred. I’ll admit, I’m ashamed I don’t have more of these.  Check them out!

 

Top 100 Albums – Jazz Guitar

  1. Al Di Meola – Elegant Gypsy
  2. Allan Holdsworth – Metal Fatigue
  3. Antonio Carlos Jobim – Wave
  4. Baden Powell – At the Rio Jazz Club
  5. Barney Kessel – Kessel Plays Standards
  6. Barney Kessel – The Poll Winners
  7. Barry Galbraith – Guitar and the Wind 
  8. Bill Frisell – East/West
  9. Bireli Lagrene – Gypsy Project
  10. Bireli Lagrene – Standards
  11. Bucky and John Pizzarelli – Contrasts
  12. Charlie Byrd – At The Village Vanguard
  13. Charlie Byrd – The Guitar Artistry of Charlie Byrd
  14. Charlie Christian – Genius of the Electric Guitar
  15. Charlie Christian – Solo Flight
  16. Charlie Hunter – Bing Bing Bing
  17. Danny Gatton – Untouchable
  18. Django Reinhardt – Djangology
  19. Django Reinhardt – Quintet du Hot Club de France
  20. Earl Klugh – One on One
  21. Ed Bickert – Live at The Garden Party
  22. Eddie Lang – Jazz Guitar Virtuoso
  23. Emily Remler – Firefly
  24. Ernest Ranglin – Below the Bassline
  25. Frank Gambale – Thinking Out Loud
  26. George Barnes – Don’t Get Around Much Anymore
  27. George Benson – Bad Benson
  28. George Benson – Breezin’
  29. George Benson – Beyond the Blue Horizon
  30. George Benson – The George Benson Cookbook
  31. George Van Eps – Mellow Guitar
  32. Grant Green – Green Street
  33. Grant Green – Idle Moments
  34. Grant Green – The Complete Quartets With Sonny Clark
  35. Hank Garland – Jazz Winds From a New Direction
  36. Herb Ellis/Joe Pass – Seven, Come Eleven
  37. Herb Ellis/Joe Pass – Two for the Road
  38. Howard Alden/George Van Eps – 13 Strings
  39. Howard Roberts – HR Is A Dirty Guitar Player
  40. Jeff Beck – Blow by Blow
  41. Jim Hall – Concierto
  42. Jim Hall – Live
  43. Jim Hall/Bill Evans – Intermodulation
  44. Jim Hall/Bill Evans – Undercurrent
  45. Jim Hall/Ron Carter – Alone Together
  46. Jimmy Bruno – Burnin’
  47. Jimmy Raney – Wisteria
  48. Joe Beck – Strangers in the Night
  49. Joe Diorio Trio – Live
  50. Joe Pass – For Django
  51. Joe Pass – Virtuoso
  52. John Abercrombie – Timeless
  53. John Basile – The Desmond Project
  54. John McLaughlin – Extrapolation
  55. John Scofield – A Go Go
  56. John Scofield – Hand Jive
  57. Johnny Smith – Johnny Smith
  58. Johnny Smith – Moonligh in Vermont (w Stan Getz)
  59. Jonathan Kreisberg – Unearth
  60. Kenny Burrell – Guitar Forms
  61. Kenny Burrell – Midnight Blue
  62. Kevin Eubanks – Guitarist
  63. Kurt Rosenwinkel – Deep Song
  64. Larry Carlton – Last Nite
  65. Larry Coryell (w John McLaughlin) – Spaces
  66. Lee Ritenour – Rit’s House
  67. Lenny Breau – Live on Bourbon Street
  68. Luiz Bonfa – Solo in Rio 1959
  69. Martin Taylor – Spirit of Django
  70. Mike Stern – Play
  71. Mike Stern – Standards (and Other Songs)
  72. Mike Stern – Upside Downside
  73. Mundel Lowe – Guitar Moods
  74. Nguyen Le – Walking on the Tiger’s Tail
  75. Norman Brown – After the Storm
  76. Pat Martino – El Hombre
  77. Pat Martino – Footprints
  78. Pat Metheny – Bright Size Life
  79. Pat Metheny – Question and Answer
  80. Pat Metheny/Charlie Haden – Beyond The Missouri Sky
  81. Pat Metheny/John Scofield – I can see Your House From Here
  82. Peter Bernstein – Earth Tones
  83. Peter White – Caravan of Dreams
  84. Phillip Catherine – Summer Night
  85. Ralph Towner – Solstice
  86. Rene Thomas Quintet – Guitar Groove
  87. Robben Ford – Tiger Walk
  88. Ronny Jordan – The Antidote
  89. Rosenberg Trio – Caravan
  90. Stanley Jordan – Stolen Moments
  91. Steve Kahn – The Suitcase (Live)
  92. Sylvain Luc – Trio Sud
  93. Tal Farlow – Verve Jazz Masters 41
  94. Ted Greene – Solo Guitar
  95. Tuck Andress – Wreckless Precision
  96. Wes Montgomery – Boss Guitar
  97. Wes Montgomery – Bumpin’
  98. Wes Montgomery – Full House
  99. Wes Montgomery – Smokin’ at the Half Note
  100. Wes Montgomery – The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery

Do you agree with this list? Who was ignored? Which albums if any should be tossed? Comment please

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The most common, and seemingly most sage advice from successful entrepreneurs is to "just do it".  Launch into your venture with unquestioned urgency and commitment, without it your enterprise is doomed!  That seems right, and yet there is another side to the coin we should all say out loud.

Most startups will fail.

If you're trying to build a tech company it's a particulary dicey proposition, and you owe it to your family, friends, and any employees to read this book: High Tech StartUp.  It's a sobering book full of facts, figures, and reality that anyone hoping to succeed as a startup needs to deal with eyes wide open.

The point is not that a passionate person with an idea and a dream should not pursue it with full commitment; indeed how else to succeed?  How else to change, to better the world!  However, there are other factors every entrepreneur would benefit from looking at coldly & rationally.

Imagine you decide to be a surfer and catch a wave.  So I give you, and thousands of others like you, a boat ride out to the middle of the ocean, no land in sight.  Everyone starts paddling in various directions with great enthusiasm, hoping a wave will rise up behind them and give them a glorious ride to shore.

"Wait," you say, "which way is best to paddle?  Where is shore and which direction will the waves come from?"

"Is a wave coming soon?  Or will my arms be tired and as limp as spaghetti noodles when a wave finally arrives?"

"When a wave comes, will I be close enough to shore for it to break and carry me?"

"Will the wave be strong enough to carry me?"

"Will the wave be ridable, or will it break all at once?"

"Will it throw me on the rocks, only for others to see and learn from my mistakes and ride successfully?"

All I can say is that these seem like good questions.

Riding waves, whether in innovation or in the ocean, is hard.  This endeavor takes great fortitude, persistence, self-belief, and endurance, but it only works if you are in the right place at the right time.

Luck favors the bold and confident, but rarely the foolish.  You have a much better chance at success if you know where you are and learn to read the ocean around you.

Then, when you have made your mark, you will have your chance to tell all the hopeful paddlers in the middle of the ocean that it is about a sense of urgency.  

As your professor would say, urgency is a necessary but not sufficient condition.  Do your homework.

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Duke who?  Yeah, I think we went to a Dukes restaurant on vacation once, right?

Duke Kahanamoku, an exceptional man and person, is worth remembering for inspiration.  Duke went confidently against the grain of the larger world in the positive manner he believed in, and he made the world a richer place in doing so.  He did what he loved, and shared what he loved with the world.
Duke Kahanamoku was born August 24, 1890, a full blooded Hawaiian, but he was a common Hawaiian by birth.  So why will you find statues of him at various places around the world?  It was the things Duke did and the way he interacted with people that made his name ring true, for he carried an inherent air of nobility.  Duke was royalty of his own making, by his character and action.
Growing up around the beaches of Waikiki, Duke spent countless hours in the ocean surfing, swimming and paddling canoe, the things he loved, and he was probably as comfortable in and under the ocean and most people are at a grassy park.
It was swimming that brought Duke to world attention, and Duke that brought Aloha and surfing to the attention of the world.
When Duke was 20, an attorney clocked the 100 yard pace of one his daily swims at Diamond Head and realized he was swimming a world class pace.  Convincing Duke and his friends to form a club and enter Hawaii's first sanctioned swim meet, Duke broke the world record for the 100 yard freestyle in Honolulu Harbor.  Mainstream swimming refused to believe it, suggesting the unconventional venue must have given him some advantage.  Duke proved them wrong in the following year at the Stockholm Olympics where he won the gold medal in the 100 meter freestyle and set a new world record.  An unknown, Duke developed his swimming style out in the ocean, learning from any visiting swimmers he met at Waikiki.
Competitive swimming provided a avenue to connect the world outside Hawai'i with Hawai'i, and Duke became an unofficial ambassador for Hawai'i, surfing, and aloha for decades.

For the millions around the world who surf, it's because Duke led the way.

Duke's creed

Try meeting or leaving people with aloha, you’ll be surprised by their reaction. I believe it and it is my creed. Aloha to you.

— Duke Paoa Kahanamoku

A few things about Duke
  • Participated in the Olympics from age 22 through 42, winning 3 gold medals, 2 silver, and a bronze over 20 years
  • Rode a monster wave at Waikiki for over a mile on a 16' finless board, a legendary ride never equaled
  • An incomparable ocean waterman, he rescued drowning men, fought a 10' eel, and filled his life with many more heroics now lost in time
  • Introduced the world to surfing, swimming, and Aloha 
Learn more about Duke

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…fixing things is harder than if a more sophisticated tool was started with.

This morning Posterous, which I generally think is great! has let me down, let me count the ways:
  • Failure to properly handle linked images like
  • Lack of good options for adding or managing images after they're posted
  • General editing inconsistency from HTML or RTF to actual post
I don't like looking gift horses in the mouth, but I went from spending a couple minutes to share some thoughts inspiring me, to spending a whole lot of time trying to fix an unpalatable post, and regrets for having automatically pinged my friends to come see it.  And I never could get it right.

My apologies friends…

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just a picture

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just a picture

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Now I'm going analog, even when I'm doing digital.  Analog is friendly, like the iVinyl app.

You see, I had it all wrong.

I thought the world was analog and digital was an imperfect representation of it.  Digital, I thought, was a human friendly approximation of reality.  I made a simple mistake.

I had it all backwards.  Probably.

The Universe is Binary

Everything, it seems, at it's fantastically lowest level is probably binary.  Everything has to choose a state, e.g. quantum particles have to "choose" a spin (right or left).  You have to decide to read on, or not.  (Hint: read on)

If we could dig deep enough, everything is in a binary state, 1 or 0.

Humans are not Equipped for Binary Reality

Everything being binary is not very helpful to you and I.

MP3's and the Internet are great, but do you really think you can make love while considering the binary state of each subatomic particle around you?

I bought a new watch this week after a decade refusing to wear a watch in stubborn resistance to the tyranny of time.  I decided not having a close enough grasp on time was holding me back from things I wanted to do.

My new watch is a digital device, very accurate, but it has the old school analog minute and hour sweep hands, which is very friendly.

While I can easily read big digits on a digital display, those digitals only provide a single data point, 10:55 AM.  When I look at the analog hands on my new watch I instantly get a graphical depiction that tells me:
  • the minute hand has moved a 1/3 pie slice since I last looked
  • the minute hands have progressed much faster than my task
  • I need a new plan
It's all instantly obvious without having to go through a quick mental calculation on how many minutes I have left and how much I can get done in them.  The hands show me; they give me a picture, a graph of the passage of time.  Very human friendly.

And whatever the nature of reality, I am human, after all.

More to read on the nature of reality, including whether it is binary:

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Now I'm going analog, even when I'm doing digital.  Analog is friendly, like the iVinyl app.

You see, I had it all wrong.

I thought the world was analog and digital was an imperfect representation of it.  Digital, I thought, was a human friendly approximation of reality.  I made a simple mistake.

I had it all backwards.  Probably.

The Universe is Binary

Everything, it seems, at it's fantastically lowest level is probably binary.  Everything has to choose a state, e.g. quantum particles have to "choose" a spin (right or left).  You have to decide to read on, or not.  (Hint: read on)

If we could dig deep enough, everything is in a binary state, 1 or 0.

Humans are not Equipped for Binary Reality

Everything being binary is not very helpful to you and I.

MP3's and the Internet are great, but do you really think you can make love while considering the binary state of each subatomic particle around you?

I bought a new watch this week after a decade refusing to wear a watch in stubborn resistance to the tyranny of time.  I decided not having a close enough grasp on time was holding me back from things I wanted to do.

My new watch is a digital device, very accurate, but it has the old school analog minute and hour sweep hands, which is very friendly.

While I can easily read big digits on a digital display, those digitals only provide a single data point, 10:55 AM.  When I look at the analog hands on my new watch I instantly get a graphical depiction that tells me:
  • the minute hand has moved a 1/3 pie slice since I last looked
  • the minute hands have progressed much faster than my task
  • I need a new plan
It's all instantly obvious without having to go through a quick mental calculation on how many minutes I have left and how much I can get done in them.  The hands show me; they give me a picture, a graph of the passage of time.  Very human friendly.

And whatever the nature of reality, I am human, after all.

More to read on the nature of reality, including whether it is binary:

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