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).
Read more...as an early adopter, i’ve just gotten used to things that i love being dismantled. useful new fringe tools either get bought and slowly shelved (see sunrise), rolled into much less useful packages of tools (see bloatware that experiences feature creep), or watered-down so as not to really compete with the parent company’s top-of-the-line service/product offerings (see simple).
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