It’s Just Data, Dead Data
Most importantly, we must recognize that the reason for data collection is not data collection. Lately we have been taking about metrics and data, including […]
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Dear NPR (and all news media),
I’m starting off the year with a blunt question, and it is “How dare you?” 1) How dare you report about renewable energy with a […]
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Game Night, the Serenity Prayer, and Advocacy in the Anthropocene.
My friends and family got together to go apple picking and play games yesterday. It was a bit drizzly, but warm as we over-loaded our bags […]
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A Fine Line
I struggle, nearly every day, to find the right place for the line that divides know-it-all lecturing from leadership. The line that divides aggressive bossiness […]
Continue reading »Searching for Those Who Care.
Today, in the scant five-block walk to the grocery store, I saw a dozen or so popped latex balloons strewn on the sidewalk and adjacent […]
Continue reading »Riff on Revkin: The Potential of Puberty
The world I live in heals me and frustrates me. This world that is so placidly beautiful and stable, while simultaneously cruel, shortsighted, and unresolved. […]
Continue reading »Communication: Perception vs. (?) Reality
I had an interesting and incredibly revealing discourse on FB today. In brief, I posted a meme, which was naturally oversimplified and declarative, and spend […]
Continue reading »Four Things We Must Change (to change the world)
We need to change some things if we want to change the world. I see four distinct items in New York State public work delivery […]
Continue reading »Integrative Process 3: Purpose
Another interesting facet of Integrative Process is that what you are working ON is not really what you are working FOR. A building is not […]
Continue reading »Design and Yoga FIVE: Growth and Time
There never seems to be a project just beginning, one with a savvy and trusting owner, with a full project team excited to begin a […]
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