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Hello. I’m an artist, innovator and writer. You’ll find my art at loughry.com. I created a set of ideas and tools for thinking, relating and innovating in the proximity of situations, which you will find at proxthink.com. You can find biographical and background information about me on both of these sites as well. My writing appears on three blogs, one on loughry.com, one on proxthink.com, and here on davidloughry.com.

Have an Impossible Problem?

Solving, or helping to solve, impossible problems, is my specialty. Do you have some? Let me know.
Contact me here.
Thanks,
David Loughry

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The partials and the gap-fillers

(r] davidloughry.com
Relationships with other people and the world will usually be incomplete, partial, and sometimes frustrating.
So this creates a need for things like belief systems and personality, to fill in the gaps. Also, things like philosophies, possessions, money, art, music, fashion and personal style.
A danger is if these gap-fillers become mistaken for the whole of […]

QuickBooks NUE 6 and Recent Mac OS Updates

(r] davidloughry.com
A recent Mac OS update to 10.4.11, perhaps a security update, seems to have rendered my QuickBooks NUE 6 inoperable. It won’t even launch.
I tried updating QuickBooks NUE. Didn’t help.
I have an older OS on a partition of an external drive. When I boot from that OS (10.3.3), I can still launch QuickBooks NUE […]

Limits of competition in a networked age?

(r] davidloughry.com
Regarding Seth Godin’s post Everyone gets paid on commission: I don’t agree that web traffic equals impact. It may say more about the limits of competition in a networked age.
Proxri Deal: As you find our relationship rewarding, proxri with the proximity in mind.

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Perhaps

(r] davidloughry.com
With ProxThink, perhaps I’ve invented some new ways to be reasonable, balanced and measured, but in ways that promote life and vitality.
Proxri Deal: As you find our relationship rewarding, proxri with the proximity in mind.

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Good Enough Revolution

The three essentials of the “Good Enough Revolution” are: ease of use, continuous availability, and low price. See Wired article here: http://bit.ly/qpOFv
These ideas may relate to the way artdown works.

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Something Needs to Change

(r] davidloughry.com
People who integrate diverse elements to create novel solutions and creations don’t necessarily come up through normal channels or have typical backgrounds.
Time will tell how useful, successful and novel my solutions and creations are, but I certainly don’t have a typical background for an intellectual, an artist, or a businessperson. (For more on my […]

Flow of Life

(r] davidloughry.com
Ultimately, perhaps there is no reason to get up in the morning, or to start, stop or continue doing anything, or to enjoy anything, other than this reason: to be in the flow of life.
Being in the flow of life is another way of saying being related to life. Being is about relating, which […]

Kevin Kelly, Intelligence, Social Media, Humanity

(r] davidloughry.com
Kevin Kelly’s working definition of intelligence is anything that talks to itself.
Social media is helping us talk to and among ourselves in new and different ways. (By social media, I mean social networks, blogs, Twitter, Facebook, and the wide variety of social websites and social software.)
This is probably ramping up our intelligence, both as […]

Explorer

Realized how much one of my core inclinations, and strengths, is exploring. Exploring ideas, people, things and places.
This can both help me make decisions and motivate me.

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