<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">lol Joel, these are amazing.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 2:30 PM, Joel Aufrecht <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jaufrecht@wikimedia.org" target="_blank">jaufrecht@wikimedia.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><p>Shipment information sent to FedEx.</p> <p>FedEx processing shipment information.</p> <p>Like, processing it mentally.</p> <p>FedEx is having an existential crisis about shipping information:</p> <p>What is the nature of packages?</p> <p>What is the meaning of one person sending a package to another person?</p> <p>C.E.O.
 of FedEx issued order that all employees read Marcel Mauss’s essay “The
 Gift,” about the sociology of gift-giving, to better understand the 
thoughts of FedEx customers when they send and receive packages.</p> <p>Discussion group took place with all hundred and sixty-five thousand FedEx workers about the essay.</p> <p>Each employee presented thoughts on the text.</p> <p>Conclusion
 reached that an open dialogue should continue about packages. And a 
second reading about gifts, by Jacques Derrida, was assigned for next 
week.</p> <p>Package picked up by FedEx with a feeling of purpose.</p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><p>...<br></p></blockquote><div><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/08/01/updates-from-your-fedex-package-by-colin-stokes" target="_blank">http://www.newyorker.com/magaz<wbr>ine/2016/08/01/updates-from-<wbr>your-fedex-package-by-colin-<wbr>stokes</a><br><br></div><div>But on the other hand:<br><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><div><div><div><h3>Tom Knight and the Lisp Machine</h3></div></div><p>A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power
off and on.</p><p>Knight, seeing what the student was doing, spoke sternly: “<span>You
cannot fix a machine by just power-cycling it with no understanding of what is
going wrong.</span>”</p><p>Knight turned the machine off and on.</p><p>The machine worked.<br></p></div></blockquote><div><a href="http://catb.org/jargon/html/koans.html" target="_blank">http://catb.org/jargon/html/<wbr>koans.html</a> <br></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br clear="all"></font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><font color="#888888"><div><b>-- <br>Joel Aufrecht<br></b></div><div>Team Practices Group<b><br></b></div><div>Wikimedia Foundation<br></div></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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