----- Original Message -----
From: Garold L. Johnson <dynalt@dynalt.com>
To: <unrev-II@yahoogroups.com>
[snip]
> > I am explicitly building an IBIS system into Nexist now. I remain
excited
> to begin playing with it, though, now, a bit apprehensive about its power
> given the things I have learned from Jeff Conklin.
>
> I think that the categories are too restrictive. I had a martial arts
> instructor tell me that all of the world's major belief systems provided,
> among other things, a set of buckets into which life's experiences could
be
> categorized, and that the ones that were successful all had a
'miscellaneous
> ' or 'unknown' category.
[snip]
Upon seeing an organizational scheme with no "Other" category, I always
think, "Why, this system must be perfected! ... or there is a of a lot of
mis-classification going on...."
I find no shame whatsoever in putting Other categories in my ecommerce
web site categorizations. It's a place to put something until you figure it
out.
And more, it's a place where serendipity occurs, because sometimes users
find purposes for that information that you would never have figured out
on your own. "Other" is a transition ground from today to tomorrow's
new understandings.
Nicholas
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