{"id":317,"date":"2007-08-27T07:00:49","date_gmt":"2007-08-27T12:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/nesson\/2007\/08\/27\/alchemy\/"},"modified":"2007-08-27T07:00:49","modified_gmt":"2007-08-27T12:00:49","slug":"alchemy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nesson\/2007\/08\/27\/alchemy\/","title":{"rendered":"alchemy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>monday morning sitting in tripp&#8217;s wifi umbrella, wesport harbor, massachusetts, united states of america, planet earth<\/p>\n<p>back from singapore and launch of global poker strategy, nesson lessig and cohen for starts with an incredible team about to emerge<\/p>\n<p>now three days on alchemy with fern brings me to this moment, listening to our laundry crank on the washing machine<\/p>\n<p>first time back to my email either coming in or going out<br \/>\nthought i&#8217;d ride it like a blog journey reflecting on my self<br \/>\nnow off to gmail<\/p>\n<p>&gt;<br \/>\nshould i begin from the bottom or the top<br \/>\nis it hottest news i&#8217;m after or solid catching up<br \/>\nback to aug 23<br \/>\n&gt;<br \/>\ndonziger first with a headline<br \/>\n<strong> Europe Entitled to $90 Billion in Trade Concessions<br \/>\n from U.S. Over Gambling Dispute, Report Says <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Tiny Antigua&#8217;s Victory in Groundbreaking WTO Case Has<br \/>\n Enormous Significance for Several European Industries<\/em><\/p>\n<p>how would we mobilize such a constituency<br \/>\ncould we do it in facebook<\/p>\n<p>On 8\/23\/07, W.D. Grissom -medals @centurytel.net &#8211; wrote:<\/p>\n<p>    SOME American public opinion would be against the WTO. Others of us would relish the bluestockings and bible-thumpers getting the comeuppance they so richly deserve.<br \/>\n    cheers<br \/>\n    wdg<br \/>\n    Cabot Arkansas<\/p>\n<p>referring to my quote in the new york times<\/p>\n<p>&gt;<br \/>\nHi Charlie,<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for opportunity to travel with you to Singapore.  It was great<br \/>\ngetting to know you.<\/p>\n<p>I am intrigued by the prospects for GPSTS as I believe it raises a number of<br \/>\nintellectually and socially compelling questions.  I am eager to help tell<br \/>\nits story and look forward to working with you on the media content further.<br \/>\nI will get started on the items we discussed as soon as I return home and be<br \/>\nin touch with questions or content for you to review as things come<br \/>\ntogether.<\/p>\n<p>I am also very grateful for the chance to meet Kevin, Roz and Carla.  Their<br \/>\nwork fascinates me and I want to do everything I can to help them make their<br \/>\nvarious projects succeed.  I have a feeling theirs is a friendship I will<br \/>\nhave for many years to come.<\/p>\n<p>Peter<\/p>\n<p>\t Charles Nesson<br \/>\nto Thomas, Lawrence, Jonathan, Steven, Peter<\/p>\n<p>\t 8:20 am (0 minutes ago)<br \/>\npeter i feel i have known you as long as i have known tom and feel all the love i feel for him for you magnified, reflected<\/p>\n<p>go ahead<br \/>\ncut the most wonderful stuff you can find in what you&#8217;ve got and put it up<\/p>\n<p>but if you are cutting you are not shooting which seems a shame unless you have a twin<\/p>\n<p>go ahead<br \/>\nyou have full support<\/p>\n<p>&gt;<\/p>\n<p>Charlie,<\/p>\n<p>I didn\u2019t get a chance to say goodbye before we all had to leave \u2013 I wanted to take an opportunity to congratulate you on such an incredibly wonderful launch of the GPSTS and to thank you for giving me this opportunity. I\u2019ve had such a wonderful experience working with you on this project, and I look forward with such excitement to the great things we\u2019re going to do. Hell, even if we don\u2019t accomplish another thing, you\u2019ve made it possible for me to travel around the world to talk about poker with some of the brightest people I\u2019ve ever met. Thank you for this opportunity, and I look forward to what we\u2019re going to accomplish together.<\/p>\n<p>Warmly,<\/p>\n<p>Andrew<\/p>\n<p>P.S. We\u2019re not a bad teaching team, are we? J<\/p>\n<p> Charles Nesson<br \/>\nto Andrew<br \/>\n Lawrence, Jonathan, Steven<\/p>\n<p>show details<br \/>\n\t 8:30 am (0 minutes ago)<br \/>\nandrew you are awesome<br \/>\nyou blew me away when we were up there together<br \/>\nglobal poker strategy<br \/>\nhere we come<\/p>\n<p>&gt;<br \/>\nhenrik i am honored by your inquiry. congratulations on your victory. it resonated as a message of truth from denmark<\/p>\n<p>you have an invitation to come speak with my students at harvard. let me talk dates when i get back to my office. i am pleasantly aboard my sailboat now, which somehow seems danish as a place to be<\/p>\n<p>On 8\/24\/07, Henrik Norsk Hoffmann -hnh @dandersmore.com wrote:<\/p>\n<p>    Dear Professor Nesson,<\/p>\n<p>    My name is Henrik Norsk Hoffmann and I am an attorney with the Danish law firm DANDERS &amp; MORE.<\/p>\n<p>    Among others, I am specialised in gaming law, and am considered the leading expert in Denmark within that area. I am also member of the international organisation International Masters of Gaming Law.<\/p>\n<p>    I recently represented the Danish Poker Association in a criminal case, where the issue at hand was whether or not a poker tournament is a game of skill. I won the case, as the district court in Lyngby, a suburb of Copenhagen, ruled in favour of the Danish Poker Association, deciding that a poker tournament is a game of skill.<\/p>\n<p>    In Financial Times Weekend last weekend I read an article in which Roger Blitz referred to you and your project on global poker strategic thinking societies in his article \u201cHarvard professor flushes out answer to life\u2019s hard calls: poker\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>    I very much agree with your views on poker, and would be interested in learning more about your project, and maybe discuss the various skill elements of the game.<\/p>\n<p>    I am looking very much forward to hearing from you.<\/p>\n<p>    Kind regards,<\/p>\n<p>    Henrik Norsk Hoffmann<\/p>\n<p>    Lawyer<br \/>\n    henrik.hoffmann @dandersmore.com<\/p>\n<p>    DANDERS &amp; MORE<br \/>\n    Lautrupsgade 7<br \/>\n    DK-2100 Copenhagen<br \/>\n    Telephone +45 33 12 95 12<br \/>\n    Telefax +45 33 12 95 15<\/p>\n<p>&gt;<\/p>\n<p>Poker and engineering design   Inbox<\/p>\n<p>\t Reply<br \/>\nReply to all Reply to allForward Forward Print Add Tim to Contacts list Delete this message Report phishing Show original Message text garbled?<br \/>\n\t &#8220;Short, Tim&#8221;<br \/>\nto nesson<\/p>\n<p>show details<br \/>\n\t Aug 24 (3 days ago) <\/p>\n<p>Dear Profesor Nesson,<br \/>\nI recently came across an article in the Financial Times which states that you are pushing the teaching of poker in order to &#8220;teach respect, business acumen and even war strategy&#8221;. I thought you might be interested in the approach that a former colleague (Professor Ernie Appleton) and I have developed, regarding the teaching of engineering design, based on an analogy with card games and poker in particular. We&#8217;ve recently written a paper on the analogy &#8211; available via http:\/\/www.informaworld.com\/smpp\/content~content=a779334270~db=all~order=pubdate.<br \/>\nI note in particular the FT comment that &#8220;some of these instincts for survival hardly encouraged notions of mutual trust&#8221;; on the other hand, we have drawn the analogy that Toyota&#8217;s approach to design effectively puts them in a poker game as 4 different players, each of whom know the other&#8217;s hand and is able to share cards to try to make up the best hand to beat the competition &#8230;<br \/>\nAnyway, please feel free to come back to me if this approach is of any interest and the best of luck for your &#8220;global poker strategic thinking societies&#8221;.<br \/>\nYours sincerely,<br \/>\nTim<\/p>\n<p>Dr Tim Short<br \/>\nSenior Lecturer in Engineering Design<br \/>\nDepartment of Engineering<br \/>\nUniversity of Liverpool<br \/>\nCh.205A, Chadwick Building,<br \/>\nPeach Street,<br \/>\nLiverpool L69 7ZF<\/p>\n<p>\t Charles Nesson<br \/>\nto prof, Andrew, Tim<\/p>\n<p>\t 9:08 am (0 minutes ago)<br \/>\nyes tim your approach is decidedly of interest. elaboration of the lessons thinking poker teaches  against case studies of companies that have learned them will be key to legitimating global poker thinking.<\/p>\n<p>i am cc&#8217;ing prof harry tan with whom i am talking about assembling a business conference on poker strategy in singapore and andrew woods gpsts director<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>monday morning sitting in tripp&#8217;s wifi umbrella, wesport harbor, massachusetts, united states of america, planet earth back from singapore and launch of global poker strategy, nesson lessig and cohen for starts with an incredible team about to emerge now three days on alchemy with fern brings me to this moment, listening to our laundry crank [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":370,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","p1","y2007","m08","d27","h02"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nesson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nesson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nesson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nesson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/370"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nesson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nesson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nesson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nesson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nesson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}