He’s Just Had Coffee

The nature of our ‘Mel is irrepressible. In Subtle Broadcasting via Obsessive-compulsive Tagging (OCT) he lays out a manifesto of why he tags: Tagging is a compassionate way to share our insights, discoveries, our philosophy, our context, WITHOUT pushing it down at someone else’s throat. We simply tag them, let them go, let them […]

Levy: (Some) Attention Must Be Paid! in which Linda Stone nails our most prevalent disability: Stone first noticed the syndrome a decade ago when she was creating a product for Microsoft that let people interact in a “virtual world.” She found that her test users wanted to fade in and out while conducting other […]

Andrew Hunt, co-founder of The Pragmatic Programmers on emergence in software design (courtesy of 37 Signals): Emergence is one of the founding principles of agility, and is the closest one to pure magic. Emergent properties aren’t designed or built in, they simply happen as a dynamic result of the rest of the […]

In Lifehacked by Matt Haughey; mindfulness, ho, Merlin Mann quotes himself talking about the role of mindfulness in Getting Things Done he admits that it really cheeses off the “How can I put my pants on faster?!?” crowd … who make up a core part of his site’s readership. This is no real secret, especially […]

Some time ago, a character hopped onto the Sexual Racism list I run at Yahoo groups with a fairly detailed rebuttal to some of the material on my Sexual Racism Sux page. I decided to pull his posting to bits and Andy, bless him, put my argument up on his web page. I just went […]

A letter to Michel Bauwens of the P2P Manifesto: Hi Michel, My goodness your P2P memeplex is catching on like wildfire! This is excellent. Congratulations for spotting, integrating and articulating this excellent configuration of social and technical moments. I’m just reading your “A Critique of Wilber and Beck’s SD-Integral” on kheper.net and while I share your frustration with […]

Got wrapped up in a big project recently and slowly allowed my usual methods of staying balanced to slip. This happens every few months and I wind up wound up, stuck in my fretting head and unable to Get Anything At All Done. Eventually, I realised where I’d let myself go to, took a whole […]

Although some of the spiritual teachers associated with Integral Institute come from theistic traditions, a great many of the people who find the work of Ken Wilber associate themselves with either a New Age spirituality or, very commonly, one of the Buddhist traditions. But a lot of us have a Christian or Judaic background that […]

This article is a review by Daniel O’Connor of Herman Daly’s book “Beyond Growth” and an attempt by O’Connor to integrate Daly’s heterodox ecological-economic position with the orthodox “we don’t care about ecology” economic position - for reasons I think he argues pretty well. It’s dense, but I reckon it’s interesting if you have an interest […]

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