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The Post-It Manifesto
I’ve been working on too many projects lately, but advancing the process of stitching them together. One of the projects I’m working on is found at OpenCapitol.us. It is an effort to draw attention and address barriers to civic engagement. … Continue reading
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NSF Fellowship Proposal: personal statement
NSF fellowship proposal part 3 of 3. The story of me… This is a time of intense difficulty. Over the past five years we have witnessed increasing retrenchment of economic modes and institutions. The economic gains of the late 20th … Continue reading
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NSF Fellowship Proposal: research experience statement
NSF Fellowship proposal part 2 of 3. More things released into the underverse: I have spent the past three years contemplating collapse. In particular I have been grappling with how we understand continuous versus discrete system change. Continuous change can … Continue reading
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NSF Fellowship Proposal: project statement
Part of my goals for this site is to have a place where works that would otherwise remain hidden and, consequently, unproductive can get a degree of exposure. Much of the work we all do exists in closed boxes. If … Continue reading
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Event as resonance cascade, circa spring 2009
The following is an essay I wrote over a year and a half ago for a political geography seminar. At the time it was the culmination of my thinking on the concept of the event. Since then my thoughts have … Continue reading
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On the question of ‘development’
I am affiliated with a time banking dissemination project called Time For the World. We are working on a paper for a complementary currency conference in February. There was a question about out use of the term ‘development’ in the … Continue reading
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Emergence as stress relief: some thoughts on power distribution and transformation
My friend Preston (twitter handle: @gl33p) and I are working on a series of projects all the time. One of the big conceptual ones focuses on theory of system behavior and development. We’re developing a framework that looks at how … Continue reading
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Trophic incoherence in business strategy, preliminary thoughts.
Umair Haque recently wrote a column on business strategy that, in his style, seeks to disrupt conventional models of business activity in order to create a more meaningful economy. I highly recommend it. http://blogs.hbr.org/haque/2010/11/strategy_can_do_better.html Below is the comment I posted … Continue reading
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Don’t impose your model on my narrative, man! or why hierarchies and networks are complementary
I often encounter a confusion in the understanding of hierarchies and networks. The former is assumed to have clear lines of leadership or oversight and the latter none. These are merely models for analyses of conditions, though, and not statements of material fact. Continue reading
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Thinking difference
In July, 2003, the 9/11 commission released its final report. In it, the commission stated “[t]he most important failure was one of imagination.” (Executive Summary, pg 9) Although mentioned in news reports at the time, this statement was subsumed by … Continue reading
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