a few weeks back grant asked me what were the best books i read in 2017. i said i’d get back to him. today’s the day! it’s dec 29 and i can pretty safely say that i won’t finish anymore books this year. i surpassed my goodreads reading challenge goal and have read a total of 30 books this year.
Read more...the other day i was talking to andy (>_>) and i mentioned that i thought conflict avoidance might be a critical part of the downfall of western society. i don’t even remember in what context i dropped it, but he challenged me to write about it, so here we are.
Read more...in episode 018 of the humancurrent, preparing for complexity in emergency management, stacy interviews thomas appleyard who is an expert in emergency management. one thing that stuck out to me from his episode was the three phases he believes emergency management has gone through. the phases, or at least lessons from the phases, i think relate to other fields as well. i’m definitely thinking about my own field of urban planning, but other things like social change and communications.
Read more...Read more...“there has never been a social justice movement that didn’t include people who were disappointing.” — alicia garza, episode 1 of how to survive the end of the world
dave snowden’s interview on the humancurrent was one of the few podcast episodes this year i felt like need a repeat listen. i could probably listen several more times and still be getting new things from it (the other was the last episode of season 1 of how to survive the end of the world).
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