Monthly Archives: August 2006

Endgame

Derrick Jensen’s newest book, Endgame, is a raucous, polemical, rambling, articulate, angry, relentless, radical, poetic, fearless and brilliantly-argued tirade against civilization, its excesses and its unsustainability. The first volume reiterates arguments from Jensen’s earlier work (notably A Language Older Than … Continue reading

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Miro: Chapter Three: The Faeries of Morpheus

This is the third chapter of what is evolving of its own accord into a strange sort of mystery novel. The first chapter, Miro, is published here. The second chapter, Letter to Ariela, is published here. The fourth chapter, The … Continue reading

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Necessary Courage

Last evening I had my first test of dealing with stress since the onset of my ulcerative colitis. We’ve had a busy (long) weekend, and I’m slowly getting my strength and stamina back, though I still fade pretty fast at … Continue reading

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Let-Self-Change: Learning About Approaches to Complexity from Gatherer-Hunter Cultures

Regular readers know one of my big pet projects is to create a framework for solving, or at least coping with, complex problems (in business and in society) using approaches suited to complex systems, rather than the failed approaches suited … Continue reading

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Links for the Week – August 5, 2006

The brilliant Bill Watterson nails corporatism, perfectly. A mishmash this week, but there’s some really interesting and important developments here. Taskonomy, not Taxonomy: There’s a lot of debate in Knowledge Management circles about when taxonomy (a top-down imposed organizing scheme … Continue reading

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Colombians are Happy, Americans are Ill With Stress: The Wealth-Wellness Gap

Celebrants at one of Bogot·’s innovative Nights for WomenThe Unhappy Planet Index link I described in Sunday’s post suggests that, for the most part, Latin Americans are as happy as North Americans, and happier than Europeans (Scandinavians excepted), despite owning … Continue reading

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Miro: Chapter Two: Letter to Ariela

This is the second chapter of what is evolving of its own accord into a strange sort of mystery novel. The first chapter, Miro, is published here. The third chapter, The Faeries of Morpheus, and the fourth chapter, The Card … Continue reading

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The War on the Desperate

During the 2004 US election campaign, some enlightened progressives kept pointing out that “tax cuts” is just Orwell-speak for “service cuts”, and that those (mostly but not entirely conservatives) who were trying to bribe taxpayers with their own money through … Continue reading

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