Collaborations in general

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I am anti-social, anti-authoritarian (with authoritarian tendencies) and like
to work alone.
Collaboratins seem to be encouraged by funding agencies--more bang for the
buck--but they are also ways of establishing community and relationships.  In
some senses, accomplishing a project is only secondary to those contacts that
emerge from doing a project.  Apparently there are some institutions that just
go around collecting grants, like notches on their guns, but it seems to me
that a good collaboration is a spawning ground for ideas, for future
collaborations and for widening circles of interest.
In Pittsburgh, through my collaborative involvement, I have seen pieces of a
puzzle which obviously fit together.  A small, struggling city of 350,000
individuals struggling with a heroic industrial past and an uncertain
technological future.  While I can't see the final image of the puzzle, it has
been impossible to ignore the fact that too many of the pieces could be made to
fit together.
I don't think that collaborations should be self-serving, but somehow--all too
often dependent on the personalities involved--fostering those widening circles
of interest that would reach across neighborhoods, industries, organizations
and regions.
bchad

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