It was by chance that I saw your blog reference on the Blog of Collective Intelligence and your ‘Pay It Forward’ business model and it made me not only smile but shout for joy.

I am a learning specialist here in UK and run a small learning improvement company that helps people and businesses get more value from their investment in training and learning. Obviously, we talk about ROI in training, but moreover, we try to get the message across about ‘Paying-It-Forward’ in terms of return from learning events.

We also practice as much of the principle as we can, not with money, but with our time to help individuals that need help learning how to learn as much as we possibly can for no financial gain (probably means we will never be financial millionaires, but who cares).

We also use the YouTube trailer, from the film of the same name to make our point in many of our training sessions, see here

http://ofqt.com/Resources/free_learning.html

I would like to take this opportunity to wish you all the success in the world as you are the very first person I have come across that doesn’t just talk about this BUT PUTS IT INTO ACTION.

You are awesome!

Jozefa

I saw that you were mentioning the need of a sawmill, so thought I would at least share that project. I think their contact info is on that site http://openfarmtech.org/index.php/Visit_Factor_e_Farm

http://openfarmtech.org/index.php/Sawmill

Save lots of money and buy it from Marcin and co.

@venessamiemis

BTW, I just clicked on @vanessamiemis and twitter said “That account does not exist.”

I don’t know where else to write more than 140 characters to you. I’ve been looking at what you talked to me about yesterday, the sound stuff. If anything, I can help lead you to the right information resources that someone would need to do what you are trying to do.

Not sure it is in effect entirely possible in the way that you currently envision it, but that’s the name of the game, right? I can tell you what’s been done, link you to relevant research – as best as I can – and let you know what I think is your best bet.

And if I can have a hand in it myself, all the better. Part of it seems to be a bioacoustic / biomusicology question. To hear a few notes of music and immediately “get it”, that’s based more on an individual’s ability than on any sort of “universal” trait, quality, attribute that you’re likely to find in a sound-based expression.

I hope I’m not misplaced in using a public channel for sharing these ideas. If there’s a problem, just erase this message, but give me a way I can write you more than 140 characters at a time. Take care, hope you are well.

Sincerely,

Alex @jonasthanatos

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