I’m synching up my blogroll with my RSS subscriptions. This means that what you see on the left under “Good Reads” are actually the subs in my Bloglines account. I lament the fact that this means I can’t keep up with some very good blogs, because they either don’t publish feeds, or they publish partial feeds. It’s a time and convienence issue. Also, partial feeds just don’t work for me. The only site that manages to pull me with a partial feed is defective yeti. Everyone else usually gets a miss. I know this is not a quirk specific to …
One of the things I love about the connectivity of the Internet is that I end up finding people in my own backyard who are doing really interesting things. So today, here’s a link to Jessie Sutherland a Victoria BC woman who is pioneering some reconciliation strategies using a set of tools called worldviewing which help people to understand their own world views and those of others. Worldviewing entails three sets of skills: 1. Connecting parties to their fundamental worldview 2. Learning to engage across worldview difference 3. Regenerating Indigenous cultures and re-civilising Western cultures. Jessie is using these strategies …
Sunday I was pleased to sit on a panel on the practice of leadership for the current cohort of learners with the Leadership Vancouver organization. The other panelists were amazing people: Marguerite Ford, Pam Goldsmith-Jones, and Bar-Chya Lee. Each of us spoke for 10 or 15 minutes on practices of leadership, and then we answered questions from the participants. Pam talked about embracing the call to action, quoting from a sign above the bar at the Cactus Club in Vancouver: “The House of Yes.” Marguerite quoted Senator Nancy Heath and said that “a job worth doing is worth doing badly” …
The first view from the surface of another planet’s moon. The European Space Agency probe Huygens has arrived on Titan. This journey of human seeing began in 1655 whenChristiaan Huygens discovered the moon with a telescope. Since then, human beings have wondered more and more about Saturn’s biggest moon. It’s not that hard to see for yourself with a small telescope. In fact, the Saturn system is almost exactly at opposition right now, 750 million miles away from us and that’s as close as it will get this time around. Find someone with a telescope and go have a look …
Over at Wirearchy Jon is putting together a manifesto of his thinking on what interconnected technology means for the way we are with each other in organizations. Could this be the skelton on which the full fledged book on Wirearchy will hang? *hint hint*