I'm a big believer in Information Architecture as a community of practice, and I also believe it's good for such a community to have a "home base," especially if they're a virtual organization spread all over the globe like ours.
Gaussian perspective of the world = built on atomism, privileging stability over instability, structure over process, objects over fields, and being over becoming. Paretian world = much more dynamic view of the world; looks for patterns in evolving relati