 by Flemming Funch
Al Joy is good at getting through to me about things I do 'wrong'. I often speak to the wrong people. I sometimes act as if I'm organizing a bunch of people who washed up on a desert island after a shipwreck. But really, the people I hang out with don't feel very shipwrecked and are kind of busy with other things. I create spaces and announce that people can do whatever they want in them. Except for that it better be diverse and positive and world-changing, and better nobody try take the thing over and give it any different direction, or I'll go intervene. A slight bit of a logical problem there. I'd like to make certain things happen, to spearhead something, to bring a certain message into the world. But yet I prefer to be invisible, and I'll insist that I'm no leader. Really what I want to do would be to create a technology, a device, a system, which allows a new kind of collaborative communication to happen. I'd like to stand up and speak for its virtues once in a while, but otherwise I'd prefer for it to be something people could just take away and use whichever way they imagine. Not anything I'd have to manage. So, I'd like to invent a telephone, but I don't really want to run a phone company, and I'd really prefer to not have to be involved in everything everybody says. I'm an independent. I can be a real good advisor. Or a messenger. But I change my mind about things too often to be much of an organizational leader.
I started going to an improv acting class again. It has been around 5 years or so, but I've really enjoyed the time I've spent in improv workshops. Its a great way of getting out of one's head, into being present and creative in the moment. Works really well for me, and it's something I need. But it is also scary.
Randy Schutt has gathered some great resources on Nonviolence, Cooperative Decision-Making, and Inciting Democracy.
SEAS offers a $1 million prize for a testable new energy device with the potential to be mass produced, preferable an over unity / zero point kind of device that might independently power a private home. SEAS (Space Energy Access Systems) is an offshoot of the Disclosure Project.
Reuters: shoe size and penis size not linked. No?!? There goes my plan for an MLM penis enlargement business.
"If it works, itÂ’s obsolete" --Marshall McLuhan
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