Photo by Nathan Ward
Little elements that showed up lately:
- A beautiful periodic table of the elements by printmakers
- A reason why I love the web: Indian cooking on YouTube
- Johnnie brings it on with a great find on power. Bonus is that he also introduces me to Greater Good magazine.
- Dustin Rivers on unschooling as decolonizing liberation. Dude rocks my world.
- Jack Martin Leith, a fellow Open Space traveller, has been providing interesting resources on collective genius and innovation for years. This is his recent offering, an engaging power point presentation on world views and pathways to collective innovation.
- I’ve pointed to her before, but here again is Kavana Tree Bressen’s facilitation resources. Tree is a long time member of intentional communities and so these resources have especially useful application there. But I love her deep practice of consensus.
- “We come up the hard way, and blues is the way you feel…”
- The Mindmapping Software weblog
- Niyaz: new music for the 21st century.
- MungBeing magazine: worth a look and a listen.
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I was out surfing this week…
- Integral strategies – a site in evolution
- Why I Never Hire Brilliant Men: “Does he finish what he starts? Geniuses almost never do.” Ouch.
- The new basis of power suits? Shirts that generate electricity.
- Chaos and fractals – a collection of links
- Walkabout as pedagogy – Aboriginal unschooling
- Peer to peer governance
- RSS feeds explained (thanks Viv)
- Also from Viv...Pangea Day, a day for viewing the world through it’s own eyes.
- Richard Oliver on Kairos and Kronos pointe to this article on the same (and his lovely manifesto on Purposive Drift)
- Videos from New Yorker heavyweights: Surowiecki on power, Gladwell on genius and collaboration.
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I’ve decided to start posting random links again, found through my uncontrollable surfing addiction. I’ll just publish these in lists of ten, to keep them manageable. Some recent noticings
- The internet is a black hole.
- Plep’s puzzels
- Get outside and look for Comet Holmes
- The only way to be above suspicion is to be completely open.
- Cool thinking tools from exploratree.
- How to learn together as peers, or as a core team
- Spin the Globe show archive and the Soundroots blog
- The history of sparrow killing in China…a cautionary tale.
- Organic learning for organic kiddies
- The leadership vacuum
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Here is a selection of interesting papers for your summer reading:
- Is it time to unplug our schools? – Almost everything published in Orion is interesting. This article looks at what schools are doing to teach a deep relationship to nature.
- Altar calls for true believers – on the challenge of practicing what we preach with respect to sustainability. This is a good piece on why systemic change in general doesn’t necessarily correlate with necessity.
- Horse Power – Old technology for a new world.
- No coffee – A great piece on Jurgen Habermas, coffeehouses and the power of conversation.
- Modern Cosmology: Science or folktale? – I think the cosmic story is both. This article argues the same, but from the perspective of a skeptical scientist.
- World Bank economist Kirk Hamilton on the planet’s real wealth. – It turns out that the greatest resource the world has is “intangible capital” – people’s wisdom and labour.
- Garibaldi: Invention of a Hero. A review of a new biography about the Italian patriot Giusepe Garibaldi, for whom my local extinct volcano at the head of Howe Sound was named.
- Our Lives, Controlled From Some Guy’s Couch – Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom think it’s possible we live in The Matrix.
- Heretical thoughts about science and society – Freeman Dyson muses about the global warming crises. But he might be wrong. He’s been wrong before!
- The quandry of quality – a great blog post from Bob Sutton on what is hard to measure but essential nonetheless.
[tags]nature, sustainability, change, horses, Habermas, coffee, conversation, cosmology, big bang, human resources, Garibaldi, Matrix, Nick Bostrom, freeman dyson, robert crick, global warming[/tags]
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It has been a light week of blogging – I’m taking some time off. At any rate, here are a few notes I’ve collected.
- The Tällberg Forum: Every year all sorts of interesting people gathering in Sweden to ask questions like “How on Earth can we live together?” You can follow along with their conversations. (via The World Cafe blog)
- Photography of stones from Douglas Ledbetter and Ashley Cooper.
- Had some pieces of anarchy come through the filter this week. First, Rukavina on anarchist babysitting, next Pollard on possibility and third, “Anarchism in America” a great full length film. And then, a lightweight look at the legacy of anarchy (bottom up organizing, at any rate) in the corporate world as customers, and managers.
[tags]Tallberg Forum, photography, Douglas Ledbetter, Ashley Cooper, Peter Rukavina, Dave Pollard, anarchy, anarchism[/tags]