[Fis] Let's go beyond shock and sadness - Invitation to GRTD Project

Sun Oct 26 18:58:56 CET 2025

Dear FIS friends,
We are all thinkers here. As our wisdom grows, our aging process also
develops. The sudden loss of our friend Karl prompt me to forward you the
following Call for Discussants on Project Get-Ready-To-Die, previously
spread in the Club of Remy. So far we have had two sessions recorded, and
this effort will continue. I hope you can give it serious consideration:
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Call for Discussants - Project Get-Ready-To-Die:

During the Covid-19 challenging time, I had discussed a joking but serious
project with Stuart Umpleby - how do we prepare for death, or how to
organize our legacy well before "the close" arrives?

Since the Club of Remy started on February 14, 2020, we have had many
interesting discussions around a wide range of "important & urgent" topics.
(348 videos and 467 subscribers in our YouTube channel so far.)
Unfortunately, during these past years, two of our very active members have
passed away: our beloved Professors Klaus Krippendorff (1932-2022) and Loet
Leydesdorff (1948-2023), both of whom left wonderful insights and wisdom
through our meetings.

In an earlier period, when my training/consulting company, WINTOP Group,
was operating inside China, Professor Russell Ackoff (1919-2009), who was
our advisor, also left us. A bit more fortunate in his case, we translated
one of his books into Chinese, "Ackoff's Best" (English: Wiley & Sons,
1999; Chinese: Shanghai Sanlian, 2007). He was overjoyed when we presented
the Chinese book to him in his office, piled high with books, in
Philadelphia, two years before he passed away.

These incidents led me to the idea that it would be nicer if both Klaus and
Loet could have compiled their own "Klaus' Best" and "Loet's Best"
collections of writings before they passed away. During the daunting
COVID-19 pandemic in 2020-2021, I asked myself the question, "What would be
included in my 'Hu's Best' collection?" The departure of Klaus and Loet
later confirmed to me the importance of this question for all thinkers, so
it has become more and more serious.

So now, this is a formal Call for Participation/Call for Discussants,  for
"Project Get-Ready-To-Die" - it does not mean that we will die sooner, it
just means that getting ready is better than being unprepared. The goal of
the project is straightforward:

1- Going through all your writings so far, published or non-published, and
select a total of 300 pages (well, for more talkative colleagues, 400 pages
is negotiable), and assemble them into an eBook named "X's Best" - X is
your name - using "Ackoff's Best" as a template;

2- From these 300 pages of your insights, choose 54 of your most brilliant
quotes to be printed on a set of poker decks, so in the future they can be
sold at a souvenir shop named "The Earthings' Wisdom" on Mars or even other
planets.

3- Back on Earth here, somewhere in the future, you might have a tomb if
you choose to have a tome, then there will be a tombstone. So, among those
54 of your important quotes, which one would you like to be carved on that
tombstone? It is better that you choose it yourself instead of letting
another individual decide for you.

That is it, 1, 2, 3, you're ready! Of course, you can continue to modify
and update until the day you decide or are forced to give up. To summarize,
use this number as a memory tag: 300-54-1. It means your most important 300
pages, your 54 quotes, and the one tombstone carving that you prefer.

Now the real good news: Our new member of the Oxford Project, Leo Knuth, an
IT guru and AI activist living in China, co-founder of AI-assisted
thought-organizing platform Dessix.io, is willing to help the participants
of this project with easy-to-use tools. Thank you, Leo! Now the
sounds-difficult task of the above 1-2-3 becomes much easier. That's the
point of this Call for Participants. If you are in, please send me an email
with your questions to Leo about how to organize your chaotic hard drive
folders into this 300-page document with 54 quotes and one stone carving,
and your readiness to hand over your legacy to the new generation of
Earthlings and future Marcians.

Best regards - Jason

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Jason Jixuan Hu, Ph.D.
Independent Research Scholar
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On Sun, Oct 26, 2025 at 10:24 AM Katherine Peil <ktpeil at outlook.com> wrote:

> Dear friends,
> I am shocked and saddened to hear that we have lost the wonderful Karl.
> May we honor him by understanding and applying what he has given us. I had
> hoped for more in-depth communication and interaction to get there
> myself, but if his job here is done, the ball is in our court. Feel free to
> contact me with any insights you may have gained that can illuminate
> the “computational” paradigm. To my mind, he was describing something akin
> to the NAND logic gate, and it was a quite profound missing piece.
> With reverent gratitude and a bit of heartbreak,
> Kate Kauffman
>
>
> On 10/26/25, 5:00 AM, "Fis" <fis-bounces at listas.unizar.es> wrote:
> Katherine Peil Kauffman
>
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> Today's Topics:
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>    1. Re: Karl Javorszky passed away yesterday (Francesco Rizzo)
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> Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2025 06:49:06 +0100
> From: Francesco Rizzo <13francesco.rizzo at gmail.com>
> To: Pedro C. Mariju?n <pedroc.marijuan at gmail.com>
> Cc: fis at listas.unizar.es
> Subject: Re: [Fis] Karl Javorszky passed away yesterday
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> Dear Pedro and all
> I too join in the embrace, using an economy whose capital is prayer:
> Lord, mercy,
> forgiveness and mercy, may your will be done.
>
> Francis
>
>
> > Dear FIS Colleagues,
> >
> > Thanks, Krassimir. It is very sad news indeed. Karl was a very dear
> > acquaintance of mine.
> > He came to visit me in Zaragoza as early as in 1994. We had invited him
> to
> > deliver a Seminar on his new approach to biology via his original number
> > theory.
> > Afterwards we cooperated a couple of years within a small group (Jose
> > Pastor & Morris Villarroel) in the development of his multidimensional
> > partitions stuff--a fascinating topic which unfortunately we could not
> > continue and has remained out from focus.  He presented further
> > elaborations in successive FIS Conferences and mostly in our discussion
> > list where we all have read and enjoyed his curious and eloquent prose.
> > Karl was a charming man, discrete, polite and perhaps rather elusive
> > --except concerning his loved Sumerian / Akkadian counting systems and
> the
> > way Nature computes her cyclicity.
> > Quite probably what Karl would have preferred is an obituary commenting
> on
> > his work... Annette has suggested me that the people who has had a more
> > direct connection with him prepare a short report on that.
> > It is a very good idea.
> >
> > Dear Karl, a strong hug!
> > --Pedro
> >
> >
> > El 25/10/2025 a las 15:13, Krassimir Markov escribi?:
> >
> > Dear FIS Colleagues,
> > It is with great sadness that I inform you that one of the most active
> > members of the FIS community, Karl Javorszky, passed away yesterday.
> > Sympathy and condolences to his relatives, friends and loved ones.
> > A very original thinker has passed away, who drew attention to patterns
> > that have escaped our attention.
> > Rest in peace, Karl!
> > With respect,
> > Krassimir
>
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