Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Senior Cohousing List Info Needed

[Sharon Villines (sharon]

> On Apr 8, 2015, at 11:10 AM, Ann Zabaldo <zabaldo [at] earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
> I still need info from:
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> Silver Sage — email and phone and address
> Elderberry — ditto
> Phoenix Commons — ditto
> Quimper Village — ditto

It still surprises me that at least one person from every community doesn't 
participate in Cohousing-L. It is such a wonderful resource and the only one 
that connects all the communities, it seem that it would be helpful not only to 
individual communities but form a reservoir of information for all. I've just 
been reading Social Physics on the importance of diversity in information in 
making not only good decisions but innovative decisions. Ones that move forward 
into new achievements. Like entrepreneurs who don't echo the same opinions of 
others but draw on a wide variety of resources.

Not only do Ann Z and I participate voluminously, other members post questions 
and raise information from the list in our decisions.

(The reason I don't recommend the book is that it makes too many false 
assumptions from a massive amount of data. For example, that the ability to 
predict behavior in 48% of cases is significant. Say what? That's less than 
50-50. And that people who do as others do are imitators. Duuuh. Maybe they are 
making the same valid judgments based on the same data. But there are here and 
there interesting revelations based on data as well as on how data are 
analyzed.)

Sharon
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Sharon Villines
Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC
http://www.takomavillage.org