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mean world syndrome February 12, 2021 blog

Rutger C. Bregmans’s book Humankind: A Hopeful History (2020) is fascinating and moving. Here he is discussing our capacity to manage and copy with

dream baby dream and joy February 9, 2021 blog

It’s pretty obvious I like Bruce Springsteen. Here are previous posts of mine where he’s talking audiences, audiences and common experiences, the

xkcd hug count February 7, 2021 blog The amazing XKCD: I’m getting and giving plenty of hugs at home but wow do I miss hugging other people. 2007 was clearly an awesome year. Original

the families February 3, 2021 blog There’s a been a blast of these lately around where I live: I wonder if it feels like a hoax for the families of the 100k dead from the virus here

if then else January 30, 2021 blog the mission of nearly every corporation. Collect data. Write code: if/then/else. Detect patterns. Predict behaviour. Direct action. Encourage

nobody January 28, 2021 blog

Nobody is setting up a programme in unemployed studies, homeless studies, or trailer park studies because the unemployed, the homeless, and the

the competency model January 22, 2021 blog

From Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall’s Nine Lies About Work, and regarding the measurement of performance at work: the competency model is the

the art of reading January 19, 2021 blog The art of reading, in short, includes all of the same skills that are involved in the art of unaided discovery: keenness of observation, readily

question your teaspoons December 28, 2020 blog

Georges Perec on questioning the habitual: Make an inventory of your pockets, of your bag. Ask yourself about the provenance, the use, what will

midlifing November 27, 2020 blog Back in October my friend Lee Miller suggested we start a podcast. Yes, that’s what the world needs … another podcast. But we did it anyway and we

how to receive updates November 27, 2020 blog This is a post to show you how to receive updates (or be notified of an update) to this website, but also to pretty much any website. It uses an old

chasing elvis November 20, 2020 practice

A film by Hamish MacPherson and Simon Ellis Supported by C-DaRE — the Centre for Dance Research — at Coventry University

how a conversation is going to go November 19, 2020 blog Kate Murphy is a journalist and her book You’re Not Listening: What You’re Missing and Why it Matters is not a scholarly text. She does describe a

uncertainty and continuous updating November 18, 2020 blog Remember that when people announce they “believe science” they are believing in something which has features of uncertainty and continuous updating

how to disagree November 11, 2020 blog I don’t know how I happened across this website from 2008 but the opening sentence says so much about how much the web has changed since then: The

midlifing November 11, 2020 practice

www.midlifing.net/ Eavesdrop on two friends having serious conversations about silly things, and silly conversations about serious things. A podcast

aroha October 27, 2020 blog The radical idea of aroha is replacing a neo-liberal mythology of life as a market based on egos pursuing their own interests, which in New Zealand

atkinson hyperlegible font October 25, 2020 blog Atkinson Hyperlegible font is named after Braille Institute founder, J. Robert Atkinson. What makes it different from traditional typography design

secret history of our enemies October 12, 2020 blog If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. – Henry

popcorn popping September 27, 2020 blog

More in the slow-motion-is-amazing series (also reblogged from kottke.org)