My friend Robert Oetjen was a key member of our hosting team at Altmoisa. He brings a lovely capacity to the work, being the head of an environmental learning centre in southern Estonia, he understands the deep connection between human and world, and is a practitioner of the most ancient arts of human kind: tracking and fire building. He is a man who is a beautiful learner from his environment. Born in New Haven, Connecticut, USA, he moved here in the early 1990s as a Peace Corps worker, teaching English in the days in which Estonia was hungry to claim …
Plucked fruits from surfing the web Cool rapid prototyping workshop design Viv McWaters has a nice post on the Open Space we did at the Applied Improv Conference, and how it flowed into other activities.
Food leads the feed this week: AskMetafilter has a great list of squash recipes for all those winter squash that are plentiful and cheap in the northern hemisphere right now. Terry Patten on exploring big questions in an integral world. Good notes on polarity management and conscious evolution. CassetteBoy meets Sir Alan Sugar (and Spurs fans will love this revelatory takedown). Rosa Zubizarretta on Deepening Democracy.
In my work I often have to troll through long lists of pages of material looking for patterns and noting significant trends. I largely don’t like doing this, as it often requires switching back and forth between the document I am reading and the one I am taking notes on and something about that bugs me. Today though, I am working on a report and I inadvertently discovered a hack. I started entering notes at the top of the document, but as I paged through, I noticed that my notes were appearing on every page. I had accidently been typing …