Monthly Archives: March 2009

An Information Diet

Posted on March 16, 2009 by Dave Pollard

BLOG Information Sickness William Haefeli cartoon in The New Yorker; buy his stuff here Way back in pre-Internet, pre-cellphone 1981, Ted Mooney wrote a novel called Easy Travel to Other Planets that described a disease called information sickness, a manifestation of … Continue reading →

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Links of the Week: March 14, 2009

Posted on March 14, 2009 by Dave Pollard

Chart of group satisfaction by size,  from Life With AlacrityConnected and Alienated, Offline and On: Barbara Ganley reflects on the recent Northern Voice conference in a mournful post that resonates strongly with what I was thinking and feeling while I … Continue reading →

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Friday Flashback: A Long Way Down — What’s Holding You Back?

Posted on March 13, 2009 by Dave Pollard

Repost of one of my articles from May 2006 Image: Suicide by Scandinavian artist Joakim Back. Caveat: Some possible book ‘spoilers’ here. But not really, unless you’re already part way through the book. Nick Hornby’s newest book A Long Way … Continue reading →

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Blog Post for May 6, 2012

Posted on March 12, 2009 by Dave Pollard

BLOG Blog Post for May 6, 2012 Well, it took me two years longer than I had expected to find the place I was meant to live, but it was worth it. I have a twenty-year lease on a piece … Continue reading →

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Bottom-Up Democracy: Selecting Our Representatives Face to Face

Posted on March 11, 2009 by Dave Pollard

BLOG Bottom-Up Democracy: Selecting Our Representatives Face to Face There has been a lot written lately about the need to reinvent our economy from the bottom up — community-based natural enterprises owned and operated by people right in the community, … Continue reading →

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Naming Your Sweet Spot, and Your Passions

Posted on March 10, 2009 by Dave Pollard

BLOG Naming Your Sweet Spot In a post last summer I wrote: Know yourself. With self-knowledge, anything is possible. Without it, you are just everybody-else. When I wrote last month about What is the Name That is Big Enough to … Continue reading →

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Our Addiction to Attention and Appreciation

Posted on March 9, 2009 by Dave Pollard

BLOG We’re Social Creatures, For Better and For Worse Image of homelessness from the now-defunct Italian blog Moving & Learning. For a million years, the desire for social interaction with other humans has been coded into our DNA, because social … Continue reading →

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Links for the Week — March 8, 2009

Posted on March 8, 2009 by Dave Pollard

BLOG Links for the Week — March 7, 2009 12,000 year old frieze from Gobekli Tepe stone circle excavation, Turkey, which archaeologists think might be the ‘garden of Eden’ and/or the birthsite of our civilization Scrambling to catch up after … Continue reading →

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The Story-Weaver

Posted on March 5, 2009 by Dave Pollard

BLOG The Story-Weaver The Storyteller, by Spanish artist Cris Ortega The crowd wandered in, speaking in animated tones, looking with curiosity at the array of beverages laid out for them: juices, ayurvedic teas, smoothies, concoctions of herbs and berries — … Continue reading →

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Why Insurance Makes No Sense in a Natural Society

Posted on March 4, 2009 by Dave Pollard

BLOG Why Insurance Makes No Sense One of the largest expenditures of the modern family in affluent nations is insurance: on our lives, our cars, our homes, our mortgages, our health, and our continued employment.  In struggling nations, and in … Continue reading →

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