 Beach in Esperance, Westerm Australia, where I’m writing this blog post – thanks to Cheryl for the photo Can Permaculture and Social Networks Save the World?: Rob asks “If we learned how to work with nature and if we learned about our own nature – what could we achieve?” And Eric Lilius points us to Maya Mountain Research Farm, which is showing us the way to permaculture. You’re Not My Everything: Janene’s story makes a compelling argument for polyamory, on the basis that one person can never hope to be everything another person needs. Why I’m an Unschooler: PS’s book on unschooling is out, and you can download it for only $5. I’ll have more to say on this subject soon. Are Electric Cars Our Future?: Shai Agassi takes an entrepreneurial approach to transport and peak oil that follows my book’s advice exactly — find your sweet spot, find the right partners, do great research to find and understand an unmet need, and use an innovation process to evolve solutions to that need. Hope he sees it through to execution. (Thanks Geoff and Viv for the link) … Or Maybe Bicycles are a Better Idea: I know some intrepid Toronto bike commuters, in a city where the few bike lanes are accidents waiting to happen. If biking to work can work in Toronto, it can work anywhere. Thanks to Graham Clark for the link. The Aboriginal Weathermen: Tree points us to indigenous weather knowledge from Australia — where they’ve been tracking the weather and climate change, effectively, for twenty thousand years. Making a Living Online: Seth Godin points us to a free downloadable book on how to make a living through your blog. Haven’t read it yet but it sounds interesting. How to Deal with Complex Systems: Dave Snowden provides a comprehensive recap of managing in complex environments, in which he discounts the value of scenario planning and offers some other alternatives. Thought for the Week: From Colleen: EVERYONE’S GOT HER BASKET
Everyone has her basket. And in that basket The long legs The way with words The force field that makes money The gene soup Even the luck— There will be days And there will be days But every day Every day I have been This is my basket And sometimes May your basket overflow And when it does not |
Hi Dave: Got a link to that “Aboriginal Weathermen” article? Thanks!
Heh. Looking at that complex systems thing, it occurs to me there are two kinds of complex systems. Those that manage themselves, as a forest, and those that must be managed by humans, just a few steps away from falling apart.Human management brings into existence systems that must keep on being managed. Rarely well. Nature brings into existence systems that arise within self management, and therefore never need a manager.
On this Earth Day, you have pick up the right topic. Great work.
“one person can never hope to be everything another person needs.”Does anyone really enter a relationship thinking they can be ?WOW what a strange thought. I would argue it does not make a case for polyamory but rather a serious does of reality. No one ever finds everything ,what a bore if we did. We look for “everything” everywhere to burden another human with providing everything is to doom the relationship from the outset.
Chris Guillebeau’s PDF (the one Seth linked to) is outstanding. Transparent, generous, thorough and well-written, with ACTUAL HUMOR. Egads!I suspect the world will now collapse into itself.