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  April 8, 2007


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What I'm planning on writing about soon:

  • Getting Better: Why are there so few excellent craftspeople, and so few excellent conversationalists? Bad practice?
  • Changing Information Behaviours: It's very difficult, but here's how it can be done.
  • On Propaganda and the True Nature of Transactions: How CBC's illustrious Ideas disgraced itself.
  • A Methodology for Complex Problems (version 3): The last time I will amend this methodology until I test it, this summer, with an Open Space event on (what else) Creating Natural Sustainable Enterprises.
  • Are We Violent By Nature?: Are we more like chimps or bonobos?
  • The 'M' word.

What I'm thinking about:


My temper. It's been a long, cold, miserable spring, but by now I should know better than to lose it. This is my first, and perhaps most important, Let-Self-Change challenge. What's getting to me? Intolerant people. Dishonest, manipulative people. Greedy people. Mean-spirited people. Sheesh!

What's rubbing you the wrong way?

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