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		<description><![CDATA[The key to improving any dynamic system is first to carefully describe what wrong, define why it went wrong, and then make adjustments to designs and procedures according to what we&#8217;ve learned &#8212; not according to our preconceptions or expectations. In many cases, only later do we realize how first impressions fail to tell me [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kenramsley.com&amp;blog=7967587&amp;post=5591&amp;subd=kenramsley&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Roman Construction Engineering</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 19:27:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Romans had engineers and they worked out designs ahead of construction like we do today. Yet, unlike our modern methods that seem to change by the week, Roman construction technology grew over the course of many centuries and they didn&#8217;t go straight from pounded-earth huts to the Coliseum overnight. In some ways Roman civil [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kenramsley.com&amp;blog=7967587&amp;post=3452&amp;subd=kenramsley&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Design is a Necessary Evil (at Best)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 23:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am a designer (said like someone attending a 12-step meeting). I was born to design. It&#8217;s in my blood, and will design for the rest of my life. I&#8217;m saying this in a 12-step tone because I am troubled by how the notion of design itself may not be the altruistically neutral idea I&#8217;d [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kenramsley.com&amp;blog=7967587&amp;post=3442&amp;subd=kenramsley&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 02:28:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tonight I&#8217;ve been reading posts on the ttlg.com forums. KotP is once again the topic, unearthed from the crypts of older threads. I sometimes say that designing A Keeper of the Prophecies nearly killed me. It felt that way and I did wind up sick enough to miss work for several weeks. After a project [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kenramsley.com&amp;blog=7967587&amp;post=2732&amp;subd=kenramsley&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Engineers Optimize &#8211; Designers Invent</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:39:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At this time in our history we are no longer limited by our industrial capacity. We are constrained almost entirely by our imagination. Because of this, the designer has become preeminent in the development process. Until recent generations, far too many manual calculations were needed to design much of anything and those development projects required [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kenramsley.com&amp;blog=7967587&amp;post=2366&amp;subd=kenramsley&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mr. Martin</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:51:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a time when local businesses delivered their goods locally, the Cushman Bakery truck climbed our driveway in Sherborn once or twice a week. As far as I can remember it was always driven by Mr. Martin who wore a white uniform with something resembling a captain&#8217;s sailing hat crowning his wide and friendly face. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kenramsley.com&amp;blog=7967587&amp;post=1436&amp;subd=kenramsley&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A spectacular success can sometimes spell disaster</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 22:53:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After having spent so much to defend themselves against real and imagined enemies, the Soviets had overspent and ruined their command economy, and they could no longer afford to keep their country together much less support a hugely expensive space shuttle program.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kenramsley.com&amp;blog=7967587&amp;post=537&amp;subd=kenramsley&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Excessive secrecy can kill a design project</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 22:21:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although designers very much wish to 'do it all' there comes a time in every project when other people need to get involved.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kenramsley.com&amp;blog=7967587&amp;post=529&amp;subd=kenramsley&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Design does not happen in one step</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 17:36:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Design does not happen in one step. Instead the process is one of working and reworking an idea until you get it right -- like writing and re-writing and editing a great novel.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kenramsley.com&amp;blog=7967587&amp;post=505&amp;subd=kenramsley&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Success and failure both matter</title>
		<link>http://kenramsley.com/2009/06/13/success-and-failure-both-matter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 15:40:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Experience matters in design. Experience paves the way for the next step... experience in success, and particularly experience in failure.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kenramsley.com&amp;blog=7967587&amp;post=494&amp;subd=kenramsley&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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