From Curt Rosengren comes a link to a Wall Street Journal article on trusting intution: “Watch for bias. Don’t confuse intuitive thinking with personal subjectivity, which often emerges as a result of prejudices, biases, fears, fantasies or purely emotional reactions. Constant analysis of your thinking is the only way to winnow genuine intuitive grain from emotional chaff. Keep a record. To determine how strong your intuitive ability is, keep a record of your intuitive insights, or hunches, as they occur. Rate them objectively. If a reasonable number have worked out, cultivate and pay attention to your intuitions. Diary-keeping is the …
Got this great little piece from Killing the Buddha by way of wood s lot: “I got a job pushing monks into the ocean. The monks don’t seem to mind, and the abbot says that my threat promotes awareness. So I’m sitting here on my observation chair, watching the mainland recede, working on my peripheral vision. Not that the monks are fast. They are at peace in walking meditation, so I don’t want to interrupt the cadence so much as divert it, shuffle out into the hot sand, barefoot and cringing, and see if the monk notices my presence. If …
For a while in the mid nineties, CBC ran a satire called “The Great Eastern” which billed itself as “Newfoundland’s Cultural Magazine,” aired by arrangement with the fictitious Broadcasting Corporation of Newfoundland. While looking for something else, I stumbled over their website, featuring a bunch of episodes: “The Great Eastern–Newfoundland’s Cultural Magazine, started as an hour-long summer replacement on CBC Radio in 1994 and since 1996 was a half-hour program on the regular Saturday morning schedule. Despite critical acclaim and a dedicated fan base, the CBC effectively cancelled the show after the 1998-99 season, further alienating the thousands of listeners …
Another installment of linkage for your perusal: A Guide to Formal Consensus decisionmaking Peter Denning on Building a Culture of Innovation via EMERGIC.org Entomology: Invasion of the brood. “The 17-year cicadas are about to emerge in force” Watch out! Full text of DESCHOOLING SOCIETY by Ivan Illich Creating a Culture of Gift (.pdf) via Wealth Bondage Krishnamurti Information Network – Krishnamurti Biography via Whiskey River Anne Cameron on the bears of Tahsis and the morons that hunt them for fun, with a great discussion in the comments. Movement As Network(.pdf) via GiftHub You Can Choose To Be Happy, an online …
Just got a phone call from my friend Mike Mearns, who is the Executive Director of the Aboriginal Financial Officers Association of BC, an organization that supports First Nations financial and management capacity through training and workshops. They are looking for an Executive Assistant, but don’t let the job title fool you. The main duties are developing training materials and organizing workshops for First Nations administrators working “at the coal face” as it were: “The Aboriginal Financial Officers Association of B.C. (AFOA-BC) requires an Executive Assistant to provide support to the General Manager and Board of Directors. Our association is …