"Why are there no organizations that are not hierarchies?" my friend asked. It was the beginning of a soliloquy and he wasn't actually interested in an answer. Which is fine, as I quite like his diatribes.
Yet, there are a number of organizations that have attempted to flatten hierarchies to the p...
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The other day I spent time watching YouTube videos. This is not something I usually do, but I got stuck into looking for worm info and wandered into something called "BioChar". I captured the links, so I thought I'd archive them here.
These are the 5 videos that make up the seminar I watched "Bioc...
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When I was young I was influenced by the work of Napoleon Hill and W. C. Stone. One of the sayings that really stuck with me from their work is, "Every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit."
This doesn't mean that the benefit will naturally come to you, though. Revealing the...
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Last June I participated in a demonstration of composting. After the demonstration the young lady was kind enough to also show off the worms that she kept. For those who stayed behind, she provided a small box with some bedding and 1 tablespoon of worms. This equated to approximately five worms for...
Continue reading...I originally posted this on STEEM about a year ago….
Back in 2015, I read a book called, The Zurich Axioms, by Max Gunther. Since that time, I have spent a lot of time trying to put Max’s ideas into practice. The following are some of my reflections on what I’ve learnt about greed.
When it com...
Continue reading...One thing I like to do is try to write a list of 10 things I know about a familiar topic. Here's what I know about cryptocurrency.
When I was younger I was very religious. I was earnest, idealistic and, truth be told, more than a little gullible. Over the years, many of those hard edges have rubbed off, and I'd like to say, "Good riddance!"
One of the things I have pondered recently is the role of magic in religion and life i...
Continue reading...Recently someone suggested that if you divide Michael Bloomberg's advertising budget for his 2020 presidential campaign and give a bit to every American and that doing so would wipe out poverty because everyone would have a million dollars. Ignoring the fact that dividing \(500 million by 327 milli...
Continue reading...In The Coaching Habit, Michael Stanier writes that our brains are constantly scanning for 4 things: tribe, expectation, rank, and autonomy.
We want to know that we belong to the group of people that we're with. We're almost desperate to be part of the tribe.
We want to know where we fit within o...
Continue reading...If you like Science Fiction, you will have run across references to spiced coffee or cardamom coffee. For example, Kevin J. Anderson's Seven Sun Saga contains this dramatic scene:
Continue reading...After everyone had complimented the elaborate confection, a compy strutted in with a special pot of cardamom coffee...