About
I have deep interests in philosophy, literature, and complex systems. A lot of my writing and thinking are devoted to thoughts of how to be, on decision making, or more general observations about the world. I am the third co-founder of Infochimps, a website for finding data.
The two most helpful quotes to me over the last two years at Infochimps have been one from from Clausewitz, about energy and persistence, and one from Napoleon, about maintaining a cool head:
Whoever reads history with a mind free from prejudice cannot fail to arrive at a conviction that of all military virtues, energy in the conduct of operations has always contributed the most to the glory and the success of arms.
-Clausewitz, On War
The first quality of a General in Chief is to have a cool head which receives exact impressions of things, which never gets heated, which never allows itself to be dazzled, or intoxicated, by good or bad news. The successive simultaneous sensations which he receives in the course of a day must be classified, and must occupy the correct places they merit to fill, because common sense and reason are the results of the comparison of a number of sensations each equally well considered.
-Napoleon
Contact me at kelly.josephc (at) gmail (dot) com
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