Phil Hyde's Bio

Phil "Mr. Timesizing®" Hyde - Homepage

PHILIP HYDE III
PO Box 622, Cambridge MA 02140 USA
(617) 623-8080 or email: timesizing@aol.com
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OBJECTIVE
To be the Mozart of economic design.
Phil is what is now called a citizen scientist (formerly "independent scholar") or what economic "historian" Charlie Kindleberger called a "hated autodidact" (self-taught). Phil has never taken an economics course for credit, though he has audited several (real history by Rosenstein-Rodan/Boston University, "history" by Winifred Rothenberg/Tufts, macroéconomie at UQuébec/Outaouais, corporate strategy by George Brown/Tufts and "economic system design" by Philippe Crabbé/U.Ottawa). Phil retains his patience during bias-permeated economics courses* with a very long-term view gleaned from courses in human evolution and physical anthropology (e.g., by Stephen Bailey/Tufts).
(*Stunning example of bias: Prof. Rothenberg of Tufts University tells the story of the British and American economies with nary a mention of the most important index of progress to people of the time, the gradual halving of worktime per person from above 80 hours a week to 40. Thus Tufts supports and propagates the time-blindness common in contemporary anglo economies, a blindness that was carefully fostered by the top income brackets since the 1920s because they sensed it was the locus of the next great sharing technology - ergo, no substantial progress in the most fundamental human freedom, free time, since 1940, despite wave after wave of so-called work-saving technology. A scientific revolution against this blinding bias is brewing.)

EDUCATION
"To understand today, search yesterday." - Pearl Buck
"For every year you would predict, go back ten." - Phil Hyde
"Those who don't learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them." - Santayana

Spring 2007. Economic System Design. University of Ottawa.
Fall 2006. Human Evolution, History of American Economic Development (ignoring worktime). Tufts University.
Summer 2006. Corporate Strategy, Physical Anthropology. Tufts University.
Spring 2006. Macroéconomie. Université du Québec en Outaouais.
Spring 2005. History of the Industrial Revolution in Britain (ignoring worktime). Tufts University.
1992-2004. Worktime economics. Citizen scientist.
1983-1992. Ecological economics. Independent scholar.
1983 (6 mos.) Technical writing. Bentley College.
1977-1982. Historical and biographical economics. Boston University.
1974-1976. Corporate strategy. North American Society of Corporate Planners (NASCAP).
1970-1974. *Design Science; System Dynamics, Steady-State Economics. Union Graduate School.
1968-1970. Historical & Theoretical Linguistics. Harvard University.
1967-1968. M.A. Linguistics. University of Toronto.
1964-1966. Church History, Theology, Psychology. Emmanuel College (United Church of Canada), Toronto.
1960-1964. B.A. Ancient History & Languages. University of Toronto.

ENTREPRENEURIAL AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
"Canoe down the river of like-minded people." - John Kowal.

Economic Designer and President

Researching econo-ecological problems and design solutions
Revising book on worksharing by Bruce O'Hara of Vancouver Island
1997-2004. Economic Designer and President. The Timesizing Wire, Somerville, MA
Researching socio-economic problems and solution designs
Writing book on design results with Dragon Systems voice recognition tools
1995-1996. Electronic News Editor (part-time, remunerated). Individual Inc., Burlington, MA
Controlled story quality on international banking topics and Fortune 1000+ companies
Got downsized on day of Channel 2 debate with Joe Kennedy (Oct.28/96)
1977-1994. Principal Researcher and Director. Taproots Research Inc., Toronto, Canada. Taproots Research => Groundwork Ideas => Policy Bridges, Cambridge, MA
Researched scientific and socio-economic problems
Designed solutions and logged results
1981-1984. Instructor (part-time, remunerated). Cambridge Center for Adult Education, Cambridge YMCA, MA
Developed and taught "The Language of Economics," a 10-part introduction to economic history and current trends
1977-1982. Administrator (part-time, remunerated). Boston University: Economics Dept, School of Nursing
Edited course catalog; designed and wrote radio and mail recruitment pieces
Administered workload, summer budget; supervised graduate student registration
1966-1967. President (full-time, remunerated). Student Christian Movement of Canada, Toronto
Spoke at meetings and represented the organization coast to coast
Wrote articles and agendas; coordinated publications and events
Directed program and policy development, budget administration
Led student exchange with eastern Europe

POLITICS
"Live your life so that whenever you lose, you are ahead." - *Will Rogers 7/05/31

Independent Timesizing.com Candidate vs. Ted Kennedy

Met 44,000 fellow citizens during campaign and collected 14,000 nomination signatures of which 12,000 were certified by town halls to qualify for the race.
Surveyed public opinion on the solidity and durability of the economic "boom."
1998. Progressive Republican Candidate for Joe Kennedy's open Congressional seat, 8th District, Mass.
Polishing and publicizing timesizing® (overtime conversion and workweek reduction) to preserve domestic consumer markets (and necessarily, workforce spending power...) and to abolish downsizing and government upsizing
For campaign events, click on Events
1996. Progressive Republican Candidate for U.S. Congress vs. Joe Kennedy Jr, 8th District, Mass.
Publicized timesizing® the workweek vs. downsizing business or upsizing government - on cable TV in District's six localities
Debated Kennedy on PBS and received coverage in Time and People magazines
Won over 27,000 votes (16%) as an unknown with $600 of own money, vs. global fame and a $2M warchest, 80% from outside the District - won over 400 times Kennedy's votes per dollar

HIGH TECH EXPERIENCE
"Get so technical they think you're indispensable." - Paul Simmons

Senior Technical Writer

Worked on five versions of pcEXPRESS, a multidimensional
database and 4GL, coded in C and offering 600 commands for application developers
Designed Windows Help system for Financial Management System (FMS)
Wrote user's guide for Express Interface Language on DEC Windows
Wrote installation guide for Financial CoverStory (for financial summaries)
Designed and wrote a graphics-oriented pcInfoScan Handbook for sales analysis
Wrote EASYCHART, EASYCAST User's Guides for graphing, sales forecasting
Maintained CoverStory User's Guide (for sales summaries)
Wrote pcPromotionScan User's Guide and PROMOTER User's Guide for sales promotion tracking and forecasting on PCs and mainframes
1983-1984. Writer for Internal Audience (full-time, remunerated). Lotus Development Corp., Cambridge, MA
Worked on 1-2-3:
Co-authored Condensed Worksheet File Format
Developed migration description to the HP Nomad laptop
Worked on Symphony:
Revised program design document for installation
Wrote and updated the Functional Specification for internal reference, including chapters
on database and communications facilities
Designed main menu and Help screen for Access System
Described proprietary languages for Access System menus and Install script
1983. Tech Writing Intern (2 months, full-time, remunerated). Apollo Computer, Inc., Chelmsford, MA
Wrote spreadsheet chapter for DPSS/Calc User's Guide

TRAINING, 1973-present

Ivan Oak

MEMBERSHIPS, Official & Unofficial
"Like all your noble race, live so that you will not care when death may come." - Odin to Sigurd (Old Norse Stories, by Sarah Bradish {American Book Co: New York, 1900} p.167).
Timesizing completes each and every one of the progressive websites listed below, because (correct us if we're wrong at timesizing@aol.com) every one of them either stays in the economic surface-structure and lacks drill-down (meaning that, despite their glitter, there's "no beef," there's "no there there"), or drills down only to a piece of the deep-structure diagnosis and/or a core-economic design solution -

Those that lack drill-down (eg: The Natural Step, Center for a New American Dream, United for a Fair Economy) are typically well-funded with lots of connections and polish and conferences and alliances. They say to potential donors, "See how relevant and with-it we are!" They're highly reactive and responsive to The Next Big Thing, and have issue-crowded websites, but the issues appear in a random, unstructured, unprioritized and unstrategized way. It's as if they're in a mode where they're saying, "We must be on the right track because we can raise money, and we can raise money because we're up with all the latest progressive fads." But they've "jumped on their white horse and ridden off in all directions." And so they're ineffective. Years and decades pass and the big problems remain. This came to nationwide attention three days after the 'election' of 2004: there was an op ed in the New York Times by Andrei Cherny titled 'Why we lost - Democrats have ideas, but no vision.' The op ed was wrong that lack of a vision was the reason the Dems lost (that would be Karl Rove's anything-it-takes-to-'win' scheme including rigged electronic voting machines with no paper trails and dozens of other imaginative strategies that signal the beginning of the self-destruction of the American empire), but Democrats, Greens, liberals and progressives certainly torpedo their own effectiveness by treating the future like Santa Claus for whom they need a list of random issues and wishes instead of a design challenge for which they need a minimum-necessary-from-status-quo, Occam's-Razor-like, 'parsimonious' grand strategy.
At the moment, oddly, this ineffectiveness includes even the most advanced other worktime-oriented websites like TimeDay.org. It's as if they've stumbled on the key, top-priority issue but they don't know it. They may hunch it. They may intuit it. But for them it's mostly a lifestyle thing. The general direction that America or the developed world is heading in is wrong because it's pace isn't slow enough or it neglects families or it's too wasteful of resources. But they have little or no concept of the Timesizing imperative from the viewpoint that, we either resume the secular workweek reduction that we pursued from the beginning of the Industrial Revolution to about 1940 when we froze the workweek, or we downsize our way backward into feudalism, classism and, with a constantly weakening consumer base, into permanent economic depression. It is this imperative that we need to focus on. It is a general economic and specific technological imperative to replace downsizing with timesizing.
Those who have only a piece of the deep-structure diagnosis or of a complete core design (eg: ZPG, FAIR, or Billionaires for Bush, RMI) generally do what they do quite well, but there's sooo much missing, specifically the semantic and strategic links that would coordinate them and get them pulling together. They each leave us with the uneasy feeling that we may not be starting at the beginning. We've entered the theater in the middle of the movie and we'd love to stay for the next showing and see the beginning, but there's no next-showing unless we stumble upon Timesizing.com. Why do we keep saying "the" deep-structure diagnosis and "a" design solution? Because we believe there is an acid test for a single, general, valid, deep-structure diagnosis: war. If you focus on wartime (or plague-time) prosperity and ask the reasons for it and how to get it without the killing, you're onto the single, valid, deep-structure diagnosis that displaces human labor from its exceptional place (compare geocentric astronomy before Copernicus when the Earth was the center of the solar system) subject solely to some superficial laws of worktime ("wages vary with worktime") or productivity ("wages vary with output"), and positions human labor properly as merely another commodity (compare heliocentric Copernican astronomy when the Moon goes around the Earth but the Earth and other planets go around the Sun) subject to the law of supply and demand responding to shortage (higher wages) or surplus (lower wages). Most economists never touch on this subject and occupy themselves completely, in the surface structure, with superficialities and necessarily, trivialities - most of which not-coincidentally serve only to bolster the status quo. We talk about "a" design solution because, although there's only one general solution direction (due to the nature of the linguistic processes of despecification and generalization) and that Timesizing and its successors are the best solution candidate(s) heading in that direction, we want to be open to the imagination and to the unexpected, both in the articulation of the direction and in the description of the design.

Generally, progress would be a lot faster if we all had a clearer concept of what we want. So far, we (OK, I, Phil Hyde) have failed as progressives to articulate a complete core-economy design, econometricize it for academe, popularize it with graphics and metaphors, and publicize it. Organizations like United for a Fair Economy and Center for a New American Dream are particularly ironic, because they have nothing but a scattershot concept of what a fair economy, or a new American dream, would look like based on current political correctness and economic fads like minimum wages (whose damning indictment is the emergence of the living-wage movement). George Bush Jr. is on the throne today because that's the best we've come up with for the last two generations. And that disastrous backward slippage gives us a functional definition of our ineffciency and ineffectuality. Just as the resurgence of creationists is the measure of the failure of evolutionists, so the resurgence of 2000-year-old religions, the 500-year-old unseparation of Church and State, and the 100-year-old concept of government disengagement is the measure of the failure of progressives. Way back in the 1970s, liberals and progressives were still resting on the laurels of the questionable New Deal. Jimmy Carter failed because he was bankrupt of ideas. He had nothing substantial to offer, no "beef." He had nothing but the old New Deal dusted off and refunded and the New Deal, despite the halo, failed in the 1930s except where it set and lowered a nationwide workweek. In other words, its makework and micromanagement failed but its sharework succeeded - until eclipsed by the War. Clinton also failed in the 1990s. For lack of a progressive vision, he drifted over to the right, that is to say, drifted backwards. Clinton's big insight today (from Charlie Rose show 6/23/2004) is that Bush Jr. goes it alone as much as he can and only cooperates with the rest of the world when he has to, whereas he, Clinton, cooperated as much as he could and only went it alone when he had to. Whoopeedoo. What's the vision? Where are we going when we "have to" go it alone? The vision turns out to be reliance on outdated and overwhelmed integrating mechanisms like "one person, one vote" and "corporate seniority" when we need "one person, one workweek range" and "economic versatility" borne on constant omnipresent overtime-targeted on-the-job training and retraining and hiring. The vision turns out to be reliance on downsizing, on self-undermining welfare for the rich, and on more and more dismissal, or outright coverup, of more and more people who are being left behind as America disintegrates into evermore irreconcilable classes.

*Troops Out Now
Mark Satin's*Radical Middle
*Black Box Voting
*The Alliance for Democracy
*Job Watch
*Worst Pills
*Green Peace
*Counterspin
*AWOL Project
*Oct.13 Alliance
*Common Cause
*Democracy Now
*Operation Truth
*Common Dreams
*Alternative Radio
*Human Rights Watch
*Hijacking Catastrophe
*Election Protection 2004
*International 9/11 Inquiry
*Economic Policy Institute
*Workaholics Anonymous
Bucky Fuller's *World Game
*Military Families Speak Out
Harvard Glee Club Geriatricks
*Snowshoe Documentary Films
William Rivers Pitt's *Truth Out
*American Civil Liberties Union
Rahul Mahajan's *Empire Notes
*Uranium Medical Research Centre
*Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting
Michael Moore's *Dog Eat Dog Films
Lester Brown's *Worldwatch Institute
Jeff Gates' *Shared Capitalism Institute
Daniel Ellsberg's *Truth Telling Project
*International Cooperative Association (now focused on employee ownership generally)
Chuck Collins' *United for a Fair Economy
John DeGraaf's *Take Back Your Time Day
Barbara Brandt's *Shorter Work-Time Group
Jonathan Leavitt's *Massachusetts Global Action
Paul Ehrlich's *Population Connection (née *ZPG)
Michael Ruppert's *From the Wilderness Publications
Admirers of comprehensive thinker, *Buckminster Fuller
Herman Daly's *International Society for Ecological Economics
*International Coalition of Academics Against (Iraq) Occupation
Advocates of fair trade, vs. 'free' trade, *Global Exchange Network
Martha Marks' *Green Elephants (Republicans for Environmental Protection)
Bruce Gagnon's *Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space
Amory Lovins' *Rocky Mountain Institute (the last word on alternative energy)
Commiseration for people exposed to the downside of the Internet boom, *Net Slaves
Those "poisoners of the student mind" - *The Student "Christian" Movement of Canada
*The Other Economic Summit ("TOES") - inclusive shadow of exclusive G8 summit every summer
*Banyacya's network (Hopi prophet who warned that endless material growth is unbalancing the world)
*TUC Radio = Time of Useful Consciousness = time between onset of oxygen deficiency & loss of consciousness
*International Forum on Globalization (currently focused on plugging the free-trade leak rather than redesigning the core of the global economy itself - see their full-page ad in the New York Times, 11/20/98, p.C7)
*People For the American Way - for Soros' open society against the retreat of America into religious fundamentalism and the unseparation of church and state
or Soros' homepage www.soros.org

(Legend: * means outside this site.)

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