Monthly Archives: September 2006

Improving Your Capacity for Attention, Resilience, Intentionality & Imagination in Four Minutes Each Hour

Posted on September 29, 2006 by Dave Pollard

Recently I described a four-minute exercise to try to improve my posture, breathing and attention skills. Using a watch set to beep at five minutes to each hour, I did this, an average of eight to ten times per day, … Continue reading →

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The Process of Imagining

Posted on September 28, 2006 by Dave Pollard

A while ago I wrote an article entitled How to Imagine that included these ten ‘rules’ to spur your imagination: Pay attention: Stand still and look until you really see. The more you see, the richer the palette you have … Continue reading →

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The PKM-Enabled Organization

Posted on September 27, 2006 by Dave Pollard

This article is the concatenation and update of three previous articles on Personal Knowledge Management (PKM). It will be published later this year as a chapter in a compendium book on emerging trends in KM. In North America at least, … Continue reading →

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Intentionality

Posted on September 26, 2006 by Dave Pollard

The birth of the de-centered self can be profoundly disorienting, it is transcendental and often involves a heightened sense of awareness and connection. The analytical ‘localized’ self can find it fragile, frightening and impossible to grasp…There is a sense of … Continue reading →

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PucPuc

Posted on September 25, 2006 by Dave Pollard

‘PucPuc’ is as close as I can get to the gentle, almost inaudible purr/coo/cluck sound that our friendly neighbourhood ruffed grouse makes, so that’s what I’m calling her. On Saturday she climbed on my shoulder as I did the trimming … Continue reading →

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Self-Experimentation: What the Numbers Say

Posted on September 25, 2006 by Dave Pollard

This weekend I ran some correlation analysis on all the data I have been compiling since the onset of my ulcerative colitis and my self-experimentation program to deal with it. The mindmap above shows the statistically significant (>0.7) correlations between … Continue reading →

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Miro: Chapter Four: A Game of Cards

Posted on September 24, 2006 by Dave Pollard

This is the fourth 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 third chapter, the … Continue reading →

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Links for the Week — September 23, 2006

Posted on September 23, 2006 by Dave Pollard

An intentional community of wild turkeys breaks fast this morning after a collective nap on our front lawn.Personal Learning Resources:Google Books: An Essential Research Resource: Google’s plan to scan, and make available for online browsing, every book in the world … Continue reading →

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Ten Steps to a Radically Simpler Life, and a Scenario to Imagine

Posted on September 22, 2006 by Dave Pollard

I‘ve written before about Jim Merkel’s book Radical Simplicity, and “living simpler” is a key component of my What You Can Do (to Help Save the World) list. But I’ve never really spelled out how each one of us can … Continue reading →

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Who’s Most Capable of Making Decisions?

Posted on September 21, 2006 by Dave Pollard

Recently I reported some corporate backlash against James Surowiecki’s ideas in The Wisdom of Crowds and its message that, if organizations were smart, they could dump a lot of expensive senior executive and consultant/expert baggage and get better decisions by … Continue reading →

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