Lessons from Hans Rosling It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so. * Hans Rosling passed away this week, and the world is already missing his insightful, impassioned analysis. I spent a wistful evening reviewing my favorite Rosling talks and exploring the terrific […]
And Now for Some (Pretty) Good News…. EDIT: please see additional commentary at the end of this post. Here is the carbon intensity of the US economy – emissions per $/GDP. One of the main premises behind the Limits to Growth argument (not really an argument; it’s mathematically true) is that eventually we run out of stuff. Unless. Unless […]
For many years, this postcard hung above my desk… to no avail. More recently I’ve been trying to actually follow its advice. Farewell, zombie late-night email replies! Adieu, mindless midnight market research! For a compelling, quick review of why this makes sense, watch Ariana Huffington’s lightning-round TED talk, which was an early peek into the […]
White space and gratitude – two themes that keep popping up this year, whether in this great article on downtime or this TED talk from Brother David Steindl-Rast. For me these concepts are also deeply, not-quite-consciously embedded in my own new year’s reflection process, which focuses on reinvesting in joy. I described this process in […]