Intriguing beauties: Jeff Altman has digitized his grandfather’s home movies: San Francisco, 1958. Johnnie Moore on social creativity. Metafilter post on the WKBW Buffalo 1968 War of the Worlds scare. Great stuff to curl up with this Hallowe’en! The New Scientist maps how small and connected our world has become. Geoff Brown with some fun=behaviour change videos. Going to be fun working with him on this! Rob Paterson blogs about KETC’s approach to the flu: a new model for conversational leadership in news. Alex Kjerulf bounces into the weekend.
Finding What You Didn’t Lose When someone deeply listens to you it is like holding out a dented cup you’ve had since childhood and watching it fill up with cold, fresh water. When it balances on top of the brim, you are understood. When it overflows and touches your skin, you are loved. When someone deeply listens to you, the room where you stay starts a new life and the place where you wrote your first poem begins to glow in your mind’s eye. It is as if gold has been discovered! When someone deeply listens to you, your bare …
“Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, it’s unlikely you will step up and take responsibility for making it so. If you assume that there’s no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there’s a chance you may contribute to making a better world. The choice is yours.” Noam Chomsky
Harvesting. Happy Thanksgiving Jill Lepore on how scientific management became a way of life. Creative Cloud: 10 Cutting Edge Paper Artists Ria Baeck shares with us her inspiration (thanks for the call out!) Johnnie Moore finds an ebook from Jeff Conklin on Wicked Problems and Social Complexity Rob Paterson on Julia Child, institution and capability