TRIMTAB RESEARCH

Trimtab

What is a trimtab?

"Something hit me very hard once, thinking about what one little man could do. Think of the Queen Elizabeth again: The whole ship goes by and then comes the rudder. And there’s a tiny thing on the edge of the rudder called a trim tab. It’s a miniature rudder. Just moving that little trim tab builds a low pressure that pulls the rudder around. It takes almost no effort at all. So I said that the individual can be a trim tab. Society thinks it’s going right by you, that it’s left you altogether. But if you’re doing dynamic things mentally, the fact is that you can just put your foot out like that and the whole ship of state is going to turn around. So I said, “Call me Trim Tab.”

The truth is that you get the low pressure to do things, rather than getting on the other side and trying to push the bow of the ship around. And you build that low pressure by getting rid of a little nonsense, getting rid of things that don’t work and aren’t true until you start to get that trim-tab motion. It works every time. That’s the grand strategy you’re going for. So I’m positive that what you do with yourself, just the little things you do yourself, these are the things that count. To be a real trim tab, you’ve got to start with yourself, and soon you’ll feel that low pressure, and suddenly things begin to work in a beautiful way."

- Buckminster Fuller

TRIMTABS

Casey House

Executive Director

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Casey House is a part 107 licensed drone pilot, a graphic designer, videographer, musician, and web designer living in Ashland, OR. His music, the Living Library, can be found on all streaming platforms. Casey's Youtube channel Ancient Presence documents over 100 ancient archeological sites around the world and has over 3 million views. He started building Synergetics University in 2017.

Dante

Co-Director

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Dante is an independent scholar living in Canada. He holds a BSc. in Biology and an M.A. in Philosophy from Queen's University (Kingston, Ontario). His essay 'What is Synergetics?' is a preliminary attempt at integrating Fuller's thinking into the tradition of Western philosophy.

Kirby Urner

Synergist

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Born 1958 in Chicago, son of Quakers, dad an urban planner, mom a writer and human rights activist. Lived in Rome, Italy while dad worked for Libya. High school in the Philippines. Princeton University. Contemporary with Walter Kaufmann (who introduced me to est), Victor Preller, Richard Rorty (some of my teachers). Wittgenstein a focus, then Buckminster Fuller after finishing at Princeton. Computer programmer, voter rights activist, textbook editor, school teacher at different grade levels (K-16). Moved back to Portland in the 1980s, after extended tours in Egypt, Bhutan, Lesotho. Married Dawn Wicca (1953-2007).

Daniel Ari Friedman

Synergist

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Located in California, Daniel is the co-founder and president of the Active Inference Institute.

Struppi Pohl

Synergist

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Struppi Pohl is a weaver of thoughts, words and structures, mover of music and translator of triangles; deeply involved in the Way of the Spheres, sharing Synergetic senses. He shares with us the makings of shapes and pattens and Heartworks woven with Love - guiding us to come back sphere.