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Pollard’s Laws

We will just keep going Until we drop And this is not a sad thing. All the leaves that ever lived Did the same. — Alice Walker (2020) (images of Alice Walker and Ursula Le Guin above CC-SA 2.0 from … Continue reading

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Pollard’s Laws and XR

some of the half-million Montréalers who participated in yesterday’s climate march; from Greta’s twitter posts One of the things that intrigues me about XR is that their three demands are simple, measurable and revolutionary: Government must tell the truth by … Continue reading

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YOUR LAW

Each year the Edge Foundation asks a big question, and a lot of people try to answer it. This year, in response to Newton’s Laws, Murphy’s Law, and Burke’s Law, the question is “What is Your Law?” Here is a … Continue reading

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POLLARD’S ‘MOST IMPORTANT BOOKS OF 2003’

Continuing the dubious tradition of winding up the year with lists of the year’s best everything, here’s my list of the ‘most important’ (to me, and potentially to those of like mind) books of 2003. They are ‘most important’ because … Continue reading

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Caution: Slow Learner Ahead

photo from wikimedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It seems to take me a while to really process things I have come to understand. There’s the initial “aha!”, and then there’s a kind of backsliding or forgetting, as I try to reconcile … Continue reading

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A Culture Built on Lovely, Wrong Models

A model of Lafarge Lake Skytrain Station and the Evergreen Cultural Centre in Coquitlam, near where I live, made of 40,000 LEGO blocks.  The model is housed in the building depicted in the centre of the model. It’s a gorgeous … Continue reading

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When Meaning Loses Its Meaning

Dave Snowden’s Cynefin framework (2021). Adds liminal domains, points of uncertainty or paradox, notably the aporetic domain, from whence, notably, NZ’s Jacinda Ardern chose to cede decision-making authority to health experts as being better equipped than politicians to determine the … Continue reading

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Dave’s Best Writing

image from pxfuel, cc0 I started this blog in 2003, and since then I’ve written over 3,000 articles, essays and stories, which, if I were to print them out in standard book size, would fill over 9,000 pages. I’m guessing … Continue reading

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Why We Don’t Do What We Don’t Do

New Yorker cartoon by Kendra Allenby Last night, trying to fall asleep, I started thinking about some of the things I know I would enjoy doing once the pandemic’s over — but probably won’t actually do: Learning to memorize a short … Continue reading

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We Know What We Don’t Want

Ingrid Michaelson in her enormously-fun video of the song Hell No! signs the word “no”. If you want to know the meaning of the other useful ASL signs in the images below, you’ll have to watch the video! In a … Continue reading

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