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“Wake-up” calls? Nah, that’s not the way the species rolls…
There’s that idea/hope that we will suddenly go “aw crap, that’s been really dumb of us” and do things differently. From a very personal perspective, I hope that’s true, and will try to make it so (checklists, etc etc). But … Continue reading
Time management advice too good to, um, ignore, (from Peter Bregman)
What would you say are the most important lessons in effective time management? One of the things that I say in the book is, yes, a to-do list is important, but so is an ignore list. You have to make … Continue reading
Sandenfreude
n. The unworthy thought that “the chickens are coming home to roost” when watching a humongous storm bull’s-eye the world centre of carbon spewing. Of course, life being a shit sandwich (the more bread you have, the less shit you … Continue reading
Gloom warning: Shocked and overawed by Copenhagen and austerity
The climate “movement” is still in pieces, having pinned all its hopes on a global deal at Copenhagen (UNFCCC 2009). Local government is in pieces, cut to shreds by the austerity axes. In my city the “Implementation Plan” has become … Continue reading
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Neologism needed: extinctostalgia, thanatalgia or some such
I was in a museum the other day, with my wonderful wife. There was one section that I dreaded as soon as I knew it existed. And it was as bad as I thought it would be. Not the quality, … Continue reading
Twelve monkeys? Try twenty-six of the blighters
Via “City of Tongues” (Website of Australian author James Bradley, which I highly recommend as a source of good ideas, reading suggestions etc), I came to Kij Johnson’s site, specifically “26 monkeys.” Worth your time, imho.
Fairy-tale endings and socialist politics… (a cross-post)
Some radical feminist called Sarah Irving has written the following – Despite the sudden descent of a lot of extremely Arctic air onto Edinburgh yesterday evening, it was very much worth venturing out for Sara Maitland‘s unofficial launch of her … Continue reading
Naming the Parts
More of a note to myself, really – but at a v. good poetry/performance thing on Tuesday, Ben Mellor mentioned two works, well three if you include his piece, called Naming the Parts. 1) by Henry Reed http://www.solearabiantree.net/namingofparts/namingofparts.html 2) By … Continue reading
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Lancing our hopes for mystical sources of energy
I googled ‘Iyengar paradox “effortless effort”‘ and came up with this. Written a few years ago, I guess… Yoga For Cyclists As I write this, the third week of le tour de France is underway. It is exciting to … Continue reading
Learning from the Soviet Union
Somewhere (New Left Review?) I read about some “neuro-linguistic programming” gurus who had met someone who grew up in the Soviet Union. According to NLP (this is all from memory, I could be wrong), we all have a few ways … Continue reading
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