[MD] Awareness of Quality

[plattholden at gmail.com]

Hi Marsha,

Nothing published. My essay "Say Hello to Now" is included in the MOQ 
Forum, thanks to Horse. 

Your compliment is very much appreciated. We may disagree politically, 
but are on the same page "Qualitically.," That's gratifying to say the 
least. 

Platt . .   




On 17 Jan 2010 at 8:11, MarshaV wrote:

> 
> Hi Platt,
> 
> This is great.  
> 
> Didn't  you also publish a document on Quality?  
> 
> 
> Marsha
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Jan 17, 2010, at 7:53 AM, plattholden at gmail.com wrote:
> 
> > Hey Mark,
> > 
> > Times when Quality thinking is likely to occur -- a list to build on. 
> > 
> > You know you're in MoQ-Land:
> > 
> > When you go fishing.
> > When you cringe at jargon.
> > When you visit an art gallery. 
> > When you say, "'That's class." 
> > When you read a story to a child. 
> > When you go with your gut instinct. 
> > When you have a feeling of coming home. 
> > When you look for underlying assumptions. 
> > When you hear a jazz performer improvise. 
> > When you deliberately seek a break from routine. 
> > When your attitude is "There must be a better way." 
> > When you talk more about patterns than about things. 
> > When you consider doing nothing to be a viable option. 
> > When you ponder the difference between a jelly glass and fine crystal. 
> > When you see a butterfly and think, "There's a nice biological value pattern." 
> > When you identify a commentator who calls something "outrageous" as an 
> > armchair moralist.
> > When you realize that another person is running the same "Me" program as you 
> > are which doesn't belong to either of you.
> > 
> > Best,
> > Platt
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On 16 Jan 2010 at 20:08, markhsmit wrote:
> > 
> >> Hi Andre,
> >> Thanks for your response.  Quality as the driving force sounds good.
> >> Sounds like a reasonable way to explain it.  So, how does one switch
> >> from SOM to Quality thinking?  What does one practice?
> >> 
> >> What you describe is either living in the moment, ie. making
> >> decisions not based on some desire for something a little
> >> farther out in time, but just for the minute or the NOW as is
> >> popular to say these days), or, that our decisions
> >> are not our own to make, that is Quality makes them.  I'm fine
> >> with either explanation.  If I am wrong, please let me know.
> >> 
> >> Say I were to go out to spread the word about Quality.  What kind
> >> of flyer would I provide as a brief description?  Don't worry, this
> >> is not my plan.
> >> 
> >> Thanks again,
> >> Mark
> >> 
> >> On Jan 16, 2010, at 7:14:46 PM, "Andre Broersen" <andrebroersen at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> From:   "Andre Broersen" <andrebroersen at gmail.com>
> >> Subject:    Re: [MD] Awareness of Quality
> >> Date:   January 16, 2010 7:14:46 PM PST
> >> To: moq_discuss at moqtalk.org
> >> Andre to Mark(who is searching for awareness of Quality)
> >> 
> >> Why do you get out of bed in the morning?
> >> 
> >> Mark to Andre
> >> OK, that sounds good. ?Now how do you explain that to a new person?
> >> That is what I am asking for.
> >> 
> >> Andre:
> >> OK, because getting out of bed is BETTER than staying in, i.e. it has
> >> more Quality. You also respond to Quality when you stay in, in which
> >> case staying in bed is BETTER than getting out, i.e it has more
> >> Quality.
> >> 
> >> SOM would have this arse-about. It would say, I am getting out of bed
> >> because, for example, I want to have a good breakfast (because it
> >> places the quality IN the breakfast).
> >> 
> >> But please note that SOM uses quality in a different way to the way
> >> the MoQ refers to Quality.
> >> 
> >> The MoQ would say that simply having the breakfast in the first place
> >> (i.e. in your house) is a response to Quality... having a house is a
> >> response to Quality etc. etc etc. Turtles all the way down the Quality
> >> paths.
> >> 
> >> Cheers
> >> Andre