This ad is a perfect example of how in 1930 we felt the best way to optimize productivity was to have quantifiable control of time. It starts: “The value of the minute is going up fast. At the end of 1930 statistics will show that, during the year, the minute reached the peak of its importance on a dollars and cents basis.” Our thinking has certainly evolved past this anachronism (forgive the pun), but we haven’t embraced the new way of thinking that proffers a less linear, a less left brained method of management. Ultimately the problem is difficulty quantifying new methods of optimizing productivity. Who really understands the value of team building events? Who really understands the value of dispersed workforces collaborating face to face in small groups or in large groups online?

I’d like to know who else is asking these questions and where. Slowly but surely we are all dying and office culture is not enough to sustain us. We need to be elsewhere and do other things to satisfy ourselves. A change in the way that we think about human resources will allow generations of Americans to live better lives.

Pollock conceived One: Number 31 with no thought to the linear, which includes ideas that drive the art investment market. It is a clear expression of his right brain. Conservative iron workers in the Bible belt understand the right brain just as much the rest of us and yet they aren’t included or even accepted in the modern art community. They may not want to understand, but have they been given the chance?

With music and art programs being cut across the country especially with the recession forcing state and local governments to make hard choices, I fear that these under-engaged demographics will lose all chance to understand the intrinsic spirituality and interconnectedness of modern art.

That view strikes me as fatalistic. Maybe economic hardship and global terrorism can bring us together in an organic way and inspire a new generation of expressionist art.

Logical vs creative was what I was always taught as the difference between left and right brain. Not terribly accurate. Jill Bolte Taylor, a neuro anatomist, had a massive stroke in her left brain one morning and ended up living in her right brain for the most part of her 8 year recovery. She emerged as a kind of scientific buddha.

We read and analyze, break down and build back up everything around us. Fuck that…”feel at one with all that energy that is”, embrace your consciousness.

Dr. Taylor gives an extremely entertaining and enlightening talk at a TED conference, but has also written a book, My Stroke of Insight, that just came out in paperback.