Perhaps I should start a new blog, a catalogue of bad ideas. Entry under “F” Fracking. 

This keeps getting better and better, hack on folks! 

Consensus (Direct Democracy @ Occupy Wall Street)

What is the process of change? How do groups share ideas? Public forum has learned so much in the past year. I am amazed, impressed, inspired and proud of New York, my heart is with you! 

Here’s another great conference coming to SF this week! Service Design, what a concept! I would like to take some of these workshops too. You know I’m a workshopaholic. 

What can tech teach sustainability? How to learn! Failure provides valuable information to a system but our cultural proclivity is to sweep shameful failure under the rug; what a waste. I prefer the approach of FailCon, an upcoming conference for tech-preneurs. Their invitation: “Its time to stop being afraid of failure and start embracing it.” Right on. 

Last night I started reading Mutual Aid by Prince and Communist Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin and I stayed up way to late! The first chapters from Russian zoologist, activist, philosopher, economist, writer, scientist, evolutionary theorist, geographer and one of the world’s foremost anarcho-communists – pause for a air – is informing my constantly expanding understanding of system dependencies, exciting stuff. Hard to believe this book was published over 100 years ago, its themes are fresh and relevant to today, in his own way, Kropotkin references cosmopolitan trends such as biomimicry and systems thinking.  More updates as they come. 

So needed! This just published paper from WWF came out today.

Its a highly interesting new publication on the didactics & psychology behind the WWF’s ‘Natural Change’ approach to leadership development, which is rooted is many indigenous traditions (e.g. the vision quests from the Navaho) and eastern wisdom traditions.

Some powerful and valuable conclusions on how to facilitate a leadership learning programme that changes people at identity & values level, and especially how to communicate about it to the public.

YES! The philosophy behind BetterMeans is right on. Its like on-line Open Space Technology. I have yet to have the opportunity to use BetterMeans for a project of my own but I’m looking forward to trying it out one day soon. 

Fast Company article on a subject that often captures my imagination: What does horizontal leadership look and feel like? What does it feel when you lead out of common interest not common adversity. Each year, I’m more tempted to brave the wind and sand to experience these leadership lessons in the desert myself.