healthcare epistemocrat: Bumbling and Stumbling Nonlinearly via Poetry

Thursday, February 24, 2011

Bumbling and Stumbling Nonlinearly via Poetry

Above all, I'm thankful for my family and my friends.

Thankfully, I can count Brian Geremia (President of Ancestry) and Aaron Blaisdell (President of the Ancestral Health Society) as friends--friendships are blessings.

In response to my previous poem--"Stumbling Upon Ancestry"--Brian composed a thoughtful analysis--"Reflection on 'Stumbling Upon Ancestry'"--on his new personal Blog.

Then, Aaron crafted this untitled piece of poetry; I'll call it, "Ancestry and Me":

Ancestry begins and ends in me.

I am the product of a branching tree.

The terminal branch from many successions

of evolution and devolution, progressions and regressions.

From the first spark of life to my daughters and my wife,

from the Earth's ecosystem to my "microbe-cosm".

We never reach perfection, only strive to see

a world better suited for you and for me.

Utopia is an ideal unrealistic in scope,

but towards me-topia I strive with excitement and hope.

Each n=1 trail blazes its own path

‘till we achieve an N=1.

The Black Swan’s fractal math!

Cheers to bumbling and stumbling nonlinearly (via poetry)!

To good health,

Brent

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What is an Epistemocrat?

Caveat: Individuality is the spice of life ... Cura Personalis.

History: In his book, The Black Swan, Nassim Taleb defines an epistemocrat as "someone of epistemic humility, who holds his own knowledge in greatest suspicion." For Jerome Groopman, this person continues to search for answers by asking, "What else could it be?" Richard Feynman recommends to "keep the door to the unknown ajar." From Chester Newland's perspective, an epistemocrat never stops "searching for human dignity." Like Socrates said, "Wisdom is knowing how little we know."

Epoche, a Greek word that translates as "suspending judgment," lies at the heart of an epistemocrat's quest.

Today, an epistemocrat is a person who, concerned with what he or she does not know, engages in life-long learning and erudition to hedge dynamically against and to embrace uncertainty.

Essentially, an epistemocrat is a practitioner (a thinker and a doer; a Jesuit-spirited "contemplative in action") who respects (via paradoxes) the humble limits of being human and searches (via thinkering) for practical, real-world solutions that help us live and grow together in our increasingly complex and recursive world: diversify.

What is m=1/n=1 thinkering?

Thinking + Tinkering = thinkering.

It's an approach to searching and acting that combines m=1 personal my-thology and n=1 self-experimentation. Personal my-thology encompasses all the unique thoughts, feelings, inklings, beliefs, and reflections that flow through your stream of consciousness each day: your m=1 thinking. Self-experimentation is awareness of all the feedback and insights perceived from daily experiences: your n=1 tinkering. Hybridizing these two activities produces the bimodal modus operandi of thinkering.

The m=1/n=1 notation captures and respects individuality when it comes to the art and science of living gracefully.