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	March 18, 2007

Sunday Open Thread - March 18, 2007 photo: Lagos Nigeria squatter community, from the Nov. 13, 2006 New Yorker by Samantha Appleton What I'm planning on writing about soon: The E-Myth: The good, the bad and the ugly about this decade-old bestseller on entrepreneurship. Increasing Our Resilience and Energy Level: Perhaps we'd save the world if we weren't so tired, busy and distracted, which is probably related to... Finding & Working With Others: Instead of working alone, connecting and collaborating with others, on our own terms, in our own context, developing our own plan of action. A billion diverse people doing our own thing but in sync, in community. The Fourth Turning: The coming era of repression and violent reactionary tyranny? (I gave away my copy of the book, so this one will have to wait until I pick up a new copy). The 'M' word: One of the last taboos to talk or write about. Do our frames enable independent thinking or preclude us from thinking objectively? Communication Just-in-Time: Finding an easy way to 'walk down the hall and chat briefly' with people who aren't down the hall. A short story or poem, possibly instead of an essay on one of the above. What I'm thinking about: Yesterday's post about the 1.5 billion living in squatter communities, Shadow Cities. What do we need to learn from these people about intentional community? And a scary thought: the UN population projections project population leveling off at 9-12 billion, predicated on the assumption that as struggling nations achieve education and some of the trappings of affluent nations, their birth rates will tumble to be in line with ours. But what if the opposite happens: What happens if a second Great Depression, or The End of Oil, or a Disease Pandemic, or any combination of these and other crises befall us so that, instead, the affluent nations begin to resemble the struggling nations? As we fall into panic, infrastructure collapses, and the sense of hopelessness that people of struggling nations live with today becomes pervasive here, will our population growth rates start to resemble theirs again? And then what? Over to you. What are you thinking about these days? 6:18:12 PM  trackback []  comment []

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