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Preparing for Civilization's End:
What Would Net-Zero Emissions Look Like?
Why Economic Collapse Will Precede Climate Collapse
Being Adaptable: A Reminder List
A Culture of Fear
What Will It Take?
A Future Without Us
Dean Walker Interview (video)
The Mushroom at the End of the World
What Would It Take To Live Sustainably?
The New Political Map (Poster)
Beyond Belief
Complexity and Collapse
Save the World Reading List
Civilization Disease
What a Desolated Earth Looks Like
Giving Up on Environmentalism
Going Vegan
The Dark & Gathering Sameness of the World
The End of Philosophy
The Boiling Frog
Our Culture:
What to Believe Now?
Rogue Primate
Conversation & Silence
The Language of Our Eyes
True Story
Cultural Acedia: When We Can No Longer Care
Useless Advice
Several Short Sentences About Learning
Why I Don't Want to Hear Your Story
A Harvest of Myths
The Qualities of a Great Story
The Trouble With Stories
A Model of Identity & Community
Not Ready to Do What's Needed
A Culture of Dependence
So What's Next
Ten Things to Do When You're Feeling Hopeless
No Use to the World Broken
Living in Another World
Does Language Restrict What We Can Think?
The Value of Conversation Manifesto Nobody Knows Anything
If I Only Had 37 Days
The Only Life We Know
A Long Way Down
No Noble Savages
Figments of Reality
Too Far Ahead
The Rogue Animal
How the World Really Works:
If You Wanted to Sabotage the Elections
Collective Intelligence & Complexity
Ten Things I Wish I'd Learned Earlier
The Problem With Systems
Against Hope (Video)
The Admission of Necessary Ignorance
Several Short Sentences About Jellyfish
A Synopsis of 'Finding the Sweet Spot'
Learning from Indigenous Cultures
The Gift Economy
The Job of the Media
The Wal-Mart Dilemma
The Illusion of the Separate Self:
Happy Now?
This Creature
Did Early Humans Have Selves?
Nothing On Offer Here
Even Simpler and More Hopeless Than That
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What Happens in Vagus
We Have No Choice
Never Comfortable in the Skin of Self
Letting Go of the Story of Me
All There Is, Is This
A Theory of No Mind
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The Fortune Teller (Short Story)
Non-Duality Dude (Play)
Your Self: An Owner's Manual (Satire)
All the Things I Thought I Knew (Short Story)
On the Shoulders of Giants (Short Story)
Calling the Cage Freedom (Short Story)
Rune (Poem)
Only This (Poem)
The Other Extinction (Short Story)
Invisible (Poem)
Disruption (Short Story)
A Thought-Less Experiment (Poem)
Speaking Grosbeak (Short Story)
The Only Way There (Short Story)
The Wild Man (Short Story)
Flywheel (Short Story)
The Opposite of Presence (Satire)
How to Make Love Last (Poem)
The Horses' Bodies (Poem)
Distracted (Short Story)
Worse, Still (Poem)
Conjurer (Satire)
A Conversation (Short Story)
Farewell to Albion (Poem)
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Monthly Archives: May 2005
Making ‘Sense’ of Health Care Costs and Other Complex Challenges
When does the pursuit of ‘best practices’ make sense, and when do we need to apply less precise but more effective approaches instead? This week’s New Yorker has another interesting column by James Surowiecki, entitled Local Knowledge, which laments the … Continue reading
Posted in Working Smarter
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The Ten Best Games for Friday Night Poker
Ten interesting variants for your neighbourhood poker get-togethers. Turn on your TV and you’d think the only way to play poker is the boring Texas Hold ‘Em game. The big money tournaments have spurred an enormous growth in neighbourhood poker … Continue reading
Posted in Our Culture / Ourselves
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‘Skeptical Environmentalists’ and the Passion for Junk Science
How the ‘science’ behind ‘skeptical environmentalists’ denial of global warming can be traced to a typo, the rantings of an architect, and the conspiracy theories of Lyndon Larouche. I‘ve written before about our propensity and desire to be seduced by … Continue reading
Posted in How the World Really Works
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This Week’s Essential Reading
My usual Saturday round-up of interesting and compelling articles from elsewhere that I’ve stumbled upon over the past week, this time with a decidedly political flavour: UK MP George Galloway Rips Congress: Read the full transcript of the remarks by … Continue reading
Posted in How the World Really Works
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More on Lakoff vs. LappÈ
The Idea: The only way to prevent extremists from holding nations hostage to their emotions is to devolve power so that no one wields enough of it to exploit it the way untrammeled tyrants and fanatics inevitably do if they … Continue reading
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Learning About Dying
The Idea: Governments and organized religion exploit our ignorance and fear of death, to everyone’s disadvantage. It’s time we faced down the exploiters and faced up to death’s simple truths. Nowhere is our modern society’s squeamishness about telling the truth … Continue reading
Posted in How the World Really Works
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Imagining Your Organization’s Future: Finding the Intersection
Organizations tend to be, or become, innovative for one of two reasons: Either it’s their culture (the style of the people the organization attracts, or at least that of its leaders), or it’s forced by a crisis to innovate or … Continue reading
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On Dress Codes and Uniforms
At a recent poker night with a bunch of jeans-clad parents (age 35 to 55) I heard the following comments: “I like uniforms for school kids because it removes the competition over dress and makes it easier to get them … Continue reading
Posted in How the World Really Works
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Shades of Seabiscuit: The Heroic Story of Afleet Alex
An astonishing story had its fourth chapter written Saturday. In case you haven’t been following, here’s the tale so far: The little colt Afleet Alex was not expected to survive his first few days. As his trainer Tim Ritchey recalls: … Continue reading
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gregor’s story
so the eight of us — we call ourselves the pod — our self-selected learning group of members of alathea community aged from thirteen to seventeen years, decided to walk over to the falls of the raven as we walked … Continue reading
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