on income and being like water

You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup. When you pour water in a bottle, it becomes the bottle. When you pour water in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can drip and it can crash. Become like water my friend. — Bruce Lee

lukes' dimensions of power

i’ve been meaning to write about this for a long time, but i have put it off because i still don’t totally know what i want to say about it. for now, i guess i’ll just restate the theory and then go from there…

less of that, more of this

that = sports.

on imagination, death, apocalypse, and facilitating society

ook so this is gonna be a random disjointed collection of thoughts. they’reconnected in some way, but i’m not sure how at the outset, so i’ll just start and we where it lands.

how to make professional development happen (or a quick word on systems change)

a few weeks ago i was in a conversation about professional development (pd) and i offered this comment up to the group: professional development (individual or organizational) fails unless people actually sit down and take the time to adjust their work load (often via calendar). if it just stay at the level of an idea, the work load stays the same, people don’t adjust their schedules, they fill their plates like they usually would (which typically means overwork), and they end up with no time or mental energy to do any pd.