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Collapse Watch:
Hope — On the Balance of Probabilities
The Caste War for the Dregs
Recuperation, Accommodation, Resilience
How Do We Teach the Critical Skills
Collapse Not Apocalypse
Effective Activism
'Making Sense of the World' Reading List
Notes From the Rising Dark
What is Exponential Decay
Collapse: Slowly Then Suddenly
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Making Sense of Who We Are
What Would Net-Zero Emissions Look Like?
Post Collapse with Michael Dowd (video)
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
Requiem for a Species
Civilization Disease
What a Desolated Earth Looks Like
If We Had a Better Story...
Giving Up on Environmentalism
The Hard Part is Finding People Who Care
Going Vegan
The Dark & Gathering Sameness of the World
The End of Philosophy
A Short History of Progress
The Boiling Frog
Our Culture / Ourselves:
A CoVid-19 Recap
What It Means to be Human
A Culture Built on Wrong Models
Understanding Conservatives
Our Unique Capacity for Hatred
Not Meant to Govern Each Other
The Humanist Trap
Credulous
Amazing What People Get Used To
My Reluctant Misanthropy
The Dawn of Everything
Species Shame
Why Misinformation Doesn't Work
The Lab-Leak Hypothesis
The Right to Die
CoVid-19: Go for Zero
Pollard's Laws
On Caste
The Process of Self-Organization
The Tragic Spread of Misinformation
A Better Way to Work
The Needs of the Moment
Ask Yourself This
What to Believe Now?
Rogue Primate
Conversation & Silence
The Language of Our Eyes
True Story
May I Ask a Question?
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
Learning From Nature
The Rogue Animal
How the World Really Works:
Making Sense of Scents
An Age of Wonder
The Truth About Ukraine
Navigating Complexity
The Supply Chain Problem
The Promise of Dialogue
Too Dumb to Take Care of Ourselves
Extinction Capitalism
Homeless
Republicans Slide Into Fascism
All the Things I Was Wrong About
Several Short Sentences About Sharks
How Change Happens
What's the Best Possible Outcome?
The Perpetual Growth Machine
We Make Zero
How Long We've Been Around (graphic)
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
Loren Eiseley, in Verse
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, and Free Will:
No Free Will, No Freedom
The Other Side of 'No Me'
This Body Takes Me For a Walk
The Only One Who Really Knew Me
No Free Will — Fightin' Words
The Paradox of the Self
A Radical Non-Duality FAQ
What We Think We Know
Bark Bark Bark Bark Bark Bark Bark
Healing From Ourselves
The Entanglement Hypothesis
Nothing Needs to Happen
Nothing to Say About This
What I Wanted to Believe
A Continuous Reassemblage of Meaning
No Choice But to Misbehave
What's Apparently Happening
A Different Kind of Animal
Happy Now?
This Creature
Did Early Humans Have Selves?
Nothing On Offer Here
Even Simpler and More Hopeless Than That
Glimpses
How Our Bodies Sense the World
Fragments
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
Creative Works:
Mindful Wanderings (Reflections) (Archive)
A Prayer to No One
Frogs' Hollow (Short Story)
We Do What We Do (Poem)
Negative Assertions (Poem)
Reminder (Short Story)
A Canadian Sorry (Satire)
Under No Illusions (Short Story)
The Ever-Stranger (Poem)
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)
Improv (Poem)
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)
Enough (Lament)
Distracted (Short Story)
Worse, Still (Poem)
Conjurer (Satire)
A Conversation (Short Story)
Farewell to Albion (Poem)
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Monthly Archives: June 2005
US Energy Map
Here’s a great example of how to use a graphic to convey a ton of information. It shows all the sources and uses of energy consumed by the US, and how much of it is lost, in a single picture. … Continue reading
Posted in How the World Really Works
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Saturday Links: Collaboration, Books, Wilderness, Music, Photography, Politics & Gaia Theory
How Good Collaborations Happen: Please take 10 minutes to complete this survey on collaboration, which I collaborated in developing. My colleagues and I really need your responses to this for some research we’re doing on the collaboration process. Thank you! … Continue reading
Posted in Our Culture / Ourselves
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A Methodology for Customer-Driven Innovation (continued)
In yesterday’s post, I proposed a methodology for customer-driven innovation that draws on the work of three groups (a) Christensen’s and Carr’s work on the four types of innovation, (b) Doblin Group’s ten ways to innovate, and (c) Chan and … Continue reading
Posted in Working Smarter
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Strategy Canvases, Top-Down Disruptions, and a Methodology for Customer-Driven Innovation
Last week I wrote about disruptive innovation as described in Clay Christensen’s book The Innovator’s Solution, and lamented that, although Christensen provides a variety of tools and techniques for innovation his methodology lacks an approach to the lateral thinking or … Continue reading
Posted in Working Smarter
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‘A Nation Wired for Everything Except the Truth’
This is a dark post about human nature and our aversion to facing awful truths. It is not appropriate for children, and the squeamish may also want to give it a pass. The title of this article is a quote … Continue reading
Posted in How the World Really Works
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It’s All About Attention
We’re designed and indoctrinated to pay attention to the here and now, what’s urgent and consistent with our worldview, not what’s important and complex and far away. And it usually takes pain, a shock to the system, a wake-up call, … Continue reading
Posted in Our Culture / Ourselves
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Breakfast with Dave Snowden – Part Two
Continuing from Friday’s post, here are some additional highlights of Dave Snowden’s recent breakfast presentation on narrative, cultural anthropology, social networks, complexity in business, and all that stuff, with substantial embellishments from me, some of which are based on conversations … Continue reading
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Is There Hope for Humanity?: A Conversation
I’m beginning to appreciate that conversations are useful ways to explore ideas even if they’re with yourself. So here’s some more thinking out loud between my two schizophrenic halves, Dave the Idealist and Dave the Skeptic, on the subject of … Continue reading
Posted in Collapse Watch
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Odds and Ends
Popularity tracking of How to Save the World weblog Dave’s Contest Winners: As promised, I’ve selected three winning linkers to How to Save the World to commemorate my 1000th inbound linking source per Technorati. At the end of May, I … Continue reading
Posted in Our Culture / Ourselves
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Breakfast with Dave Snowden and an Epiphany
A synopsis of a recent breakfast meeting with Dave Snowden, head of the Cynefin Centre and thought leader on complex systems and narrative and their application in business. Last week I attended a breakfast presentation by Dave Snowden of the … Continue reading
Posted in Working Smarter
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