{"id":2193,"date":"2010-04-16T22:36:45","date_gmt":"2010-04-17T05:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/?p=2193"},"modified":"2010-04-19T22:50:55","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T05:50:55","slug":"follow-up-thoughts-on-change-vs-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2010\/04\/16\/follow-up-thoughts-on-change-vs-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Follow-up thoughts on Change vs Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following up on my post from yesterday, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2010\/04\/15\/change-vs-development-is-there-a-difference\/\">Change vs Development: Is there a difference?<\/a>, a couple of additional thoughts.<\/p>\n<p>To me, <em>change<\/em> implies a change of state, a switch from one thing to another. I can change the template of this blog, for example. That&#8217;s a minor, inconsequential change, but still a change. Development is ongoing: staying with the blog example, I can continue to develop my blog through posts, the addition of links, the inclusion of photos, and by tending to comments. Those activities (done over time) imply developing a web presence.<\/p>\n<p>By the same token, you can develop an ecology, or an economy, in different fields or areas.<\/p>\n<p>Development can be guided, but it can&#8217;t be fully predicted. You&#8217;re never really sure what the outcome will be (which is why development falls into the high risk category). If I <em>change<\/em> my template, I know what the outcome will be. If I try to <em>develop<\/em> my web presence through my blog, &#8230;well, who knows whether anything will happen, but whatever it is, I can&#8217;t really predict it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/07\/09\/arts\/television\/09cosg.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"border: 10px solid white\" title=\"Cathy Gale\" src=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/2006\/07\/09\/arts\/09cosg.190.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"82\" height=\"118\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t predict what sort of adult a baby develops into. I can&#8217;t predict what sort of economy will develop if I encourage <em>this<\/em> or stifle <em>that<\/em>. I can influence the development by increments, but I can&#8217;t write (i.e., pre-scribe) the outcomes ahead of time.<\/p>\n<p>Development takes imagination, and nurturing. It&#8217;s risky business and  needs smart attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following up on my post from yesterday, Change vs Development: Is there a difference?, a couple of additional thoughts. To me, change implies a change of state, a switch from one thing to another. I can change the template of this blog, for example. That&#8217;s a minor, inconsequential change, but still a change. Development is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1652,2149,1418],"tags":[4574,910],"class_list":["post-2193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authenticity","category-urbanism","category-victoria","tag-change","tag-development"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2193"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2231,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2193\/revisions\/2231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}