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From: lm@mcvoy.com (Larry McVoy)
Subject: [TUHS] RIP Robert Taylor
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2018 17:33:18 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180413003318.GJ25467@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.1804131022530.767@aneurin.horsfall.org>

On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 10:26:00AM +1000, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Apr 2018, Lawrence Stewart wrote:
> 
> >Here???s the obit I wrote at the time.
> >http://larry.stewart.org/2017/04/14/bob-taylor/
> 
> Many thanks!  I love this bit:
> 
>     At Xerox, the weekly group meetings were called Dealer, as in Dealer???s
>     choice.  The speaker set the rules.  The culture was for the audience
>     to do their level best to challenge the ideas.  Bob talked about
>     civility, and about the necessity of ???turning type one disagreements
>     into type two disagreements???.  A type two disagreement is where each
>     party understands and can explain the position of the other.
> 
> We can all learn something from that...

Indeed.  The part about fishing the recording out of the core dump was cool
too.

Thanks for that obit Larry, nicely done!


      reply	other threads:[~2018-04-13  0:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-04-12 21:47 Dave Horsfall
2018-04-12 23:33 ` Lawrence Stewart
2018-04-13  0:26   ` Dave Horsfall
2018-04-13  0:33     ` Larry McVoy [this message]

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