From the Skoll Foundation, the question, “What will the world look like in 50 years?” “The problems facing our world are so large that they demand disruptive thinking,” they say. “We don’t have time to think in incremental terms. It’s time to challenge the status quo, and dare to imagine what we can do.” Here’s […]
They call themselves “Daredevils” because to do their work, you need courage. Youth in Kolkata, India, (formerly Calcutta) are mapping their world. As they were helping vaccinate this neighborhood in one of India’s largest cities, these youth discovered they weren’t even on the map. The Google map showed it as simply blank. So, wanting to be […]
“What makes you itch? … How would you really enjoy spending your life?” In this three-minute reflection, the late Alan Watts says “it’s better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing.”
Arise! Today, March 8, is the 101st International Women’s Day. Here are some nice graphics on Pinterest for inspiration and spreading the word. And 10 ways to celebrate it from The Washington Post. Write! In the last post, we mentioned Neil Gaiman. Here, via Aerogram Writers’ Studio, are his Eight Rules of Writing: Write […]
I first came across Amanda Palmer in tweets from Niel Gaiman a couple of years ago. One of my favorite writers, Gaiman is featured in a mind map I did on how connections move across people, media and time. Now Gaiman and Palmer are a couple. In this TED talk by Amanda Palmer—musician, actor and […]
One morning I wrote down everything I could imagine to be afraid of: my dog could run away; I could get really sick, be a bad parent, not be able to pay bills; I could be fooling myself; people may laugh behind my back; the Middle East could erupt into even more […]
Monday’s post by Stephen Bailey (How-to: Build Your Network, thanks, Stephen!) mentioned LinkedIn’s mapping program. As I read his piece the first time, I clicked on the link, which I then activated. Then I lost myself in the map for a half an hour. All my connections appeared as dots linked by […]
In a faux press conference announcing his “toilet strike,” Matt Damon calls attention to the 780 million people with no access to clean water and to the 2.5 billion who lack access to toilets or basic sanitation. He asks others to join the effort at strike with me. And while we’re on sanitation, this video, “It’s in […]
I was recently in a conversation where this piece I wrote years ago came up. It was first published in World Ark, a magazine I started in the early nineties. I said I’d re-share it. No longer small, Eliot is taller than me, so this is becoming more his world than mine. Since […]
