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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: March 2009
Links of the Week: March 28, 2009
BLOG Links of the Week: March 28, 2009 The US Behaves Like An Emerging-Market Corporate-Crony Nation: From a former IMF Chief Economist, in the Atlantic, a familiar story, except that, unlike Russia and Argentina and other emerging nations, the US … Continue reading
Posted in How the World Really Works
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Friday Flashback: Chris Lott’s Information Fluency and Social Fluency
BLOG Friday Flashback: Chris Lott’s Information Fluency and Social Fluency A repost of an article from one year ago After Nancy White pointed me to Chris Lott’s articles on Northern Voice, and on love, and Chris replied to my Tuesday … Continue reading
Posted in Our Culture / Ourselves
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How to Save the World? Ask the Right Questions
BLOG How to Save the World? Ask the Right Questions At a conference last year of some of the world’s most renowned and experienced researchers, I asked the question: “What is the defining characteristic of great research?” The most impressive … Continue reading
Posted in Working Smarter
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Energy Descent, and A World Without Property
BLOG A World Without Property Pre-civilization and gatherer-hunter cultures have operated successfully for millennia without the concept of property — or what the Bushies hawked for the past eight years as “The Ownership Society”. The objective of such a society … Continue reading
Posted in Preparing for Civilization's End
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Shouldn’t Unanswered E-mail, To Dos, and Calendar Entries Be a Single ‘Application’?
BLOG Shouldn’t Unanswered E-mail, To Dos, and Calendar Entries Be a Single ‘Application’? I gave up on Getting Things Done methodologies when I realized that, by saying no to urgent but ultimately unimportant tasks, I could keep all my “to … Continue reading
Posted in Working Smarter
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Links of the Week: March 21, 2009
BLOG Links of the Week: March 21, 2009 ecards, from the folks who brought you The Onion (marketing slogan: “when you care enough to press ‘send’”); thanks to Ross Mayfield for the link Bye, Sweet Dog: Astonishing, heart-wrenching description of … Continue reading
Posted in Our Culture / Ourselves
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Friday Flashback: Ten Parameters for 21st Century Innovation
BLOG Friday Flashback: Ten New Parameters for Innovation This is a repost of part of an article I published in the newsletter of the World Innovation Foundation, and later on my blog, two years ago. Innovation has addressed basic … Continue reading
Posted in Working Smarter
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Power Laws and Power Dynamics
BLOG Power Laws and Power Dynamics Christopher Allen has his article on social networks and power laws up today, and it’s worth a read. He makes the point that the size of a group or network is only one part … Continue reading
Posted in How the World Really Works
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The Optimal Size of Groups
BLOG The Optimal Size of Groups Christopher Allen of the Life With Alacrity blog has expanded his articles on group size, with an article on community sizes and another on personal circle sizes. The latter are our own self-centred circles … Continue reading
Posted in Using Weblogs and Technology
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Places to Intervene in a System (Restated for Bernanke and Geithner)
BLOG Places to Intervene in a System (Restated for Bernanke and Geithner) System diagram of the vicious cycle Industrial Economy (red, top) and the virtuous cycle Natural Economy (green, bottom) Dana Meadows published what is probably her most famous work, … Continue reading
Posted in Working Smarter
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