Category Archives: How the World Really Works

Links of the Month: February 2023

Posted on February 9, 2023 by Dave Pollard

cartoon by Michael Leunig Every once in a while I take a quick peek at the publications that I once lauded for their insight, their investigative reporting, and their courage to speak truth to power. Basically I wanted to read … Continue reading →

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The Next Right Thing

Posted on February 6, 2023 by Dave Pollard

Many years ago I had the privilege of going hiking in Wales with Dave Snowden, back when we were both more-or-less inventing the discipline now (and unfortunately) called ‘Knowledge Management’. Other than the fact we share a Welsh heritage, and … Continue reading →

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Better Than Real

Posted on February 4, 2023 by Dave Pollard

The wounded surgeon plies the steel That questions the distempered part; Beneath the bleeding hands we feel The sharp compassion of the healer’s art Resolving the enigma of the fever chart. Our only health is the disease If we obey … Continue reading →

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Exemplifying and Modelling ‘Teal’

Posted on February 3, 2023 by Dave Pollard

image CC0 from pexels.com I‘m a member of a discussion group around the book Reinventing Organizations and the concept of Teal. The book, and practice, advocates creating organizations that are self-organized, self-managed, self-correcting, transparent and minimally hierarchical. I’ve written about … Continue reading →

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The Watcher

Posted on February 1, 2023 by Dave Pollard

photo taken last summer out my window — Kulshan (Mt Baker) looms over the Pitt River Bridge and the Port Coquitlam dockyards She keeps her secrets frozen under glaciers way up north And people have got lost up there, in … Continue reading →

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Hope, on the Balance of Probabilities

Posted on January 23, 2023 by Dave Pollard

my now-slightly-outdated map of worldviews about collapse; right-click and open in a new tab to see it full-sized It’s interesting to listen to social philosopher Daniel Schmachtenberger try to reconcile his assessment of the state of the world with his … Continue reading →

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Making Sense of Scents

Posted on January 20, 2023 by Dave Pollard

fragrance wheel from drom, from ‘top notes’ (citrus) around to ‘bass notes’ (musk), one of many different attempts to taxonomize the scents used in perfumery When I was young, my emotions and my sense of place and time were quite … Continue reading →

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Links of the Month: January 2023

Posted on January 15, 2023 by Dave Pollard

from Michael Leunig, of course The recent end-of-year messages from most of my favourite writers have been pretty glum — the situation, they say, is hopeless, and inevitably going to get much worse (and without the “before it gets better” … Continue reading →

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Coping With Collapse: Updated Poster

Posted on January 13, 2023 by Dave Pollard

2023 update to this 2019 poster; right click and open in a separate tab to view or print full-size Dire warnings about imminent or ongoing economic or ecological collapse always used to be followed by obligatory “It might not be … Continue reading →

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No Free Will, No Freedom

Posted on January 11, 2023 by Dave Pollard

Ah, here we go again, down the “free will” rabbit hole. photo by Pavel Danilyuk, for Pexels, CC0 In a recent post, Caitlin Johnstone got to the heart of why we continue to tolerate the massive dysfunction, corruption and inequality … Continue reading →

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