Ranjitha Jeurkar Ranjitha Jeurkar, a Certified Trainer with the Center for Nonviolent Communication, recently attended at Holacracy Taster Workshop. Each day, she works with both individuals and teams and helps them explore how to bring more empathy and collaboration to the workplace. Here are her reflections after the workshop. I recently had the opportunity to […]
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Ranjitha Jeurkar Ranjitha Jeurkar, a Certified Trainer with the Center for Nonviolent Communication, recently attended at Holacracy Taster Workshop. Each day, she works with both individuals and teams and helps them explore how to bring more empathy and collaboration to the workplace. Here are her reflections after the workshop. I recently had the opportunity to
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[read first if you haven’t: Blood in the Streets Part 1] Recap: On July 28, 2017 in Pottstown Pennsylvania, Antifas attacked a Trump supporters’ “Freedom of Speech” rally . The Militia of America (MOA) had recently formed up on Reddit to oppose the Antifas. 14 MOA affiliates at the rally shot 26 Antifas, killing 12. The MOA
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photos by Anthony Thornton Much of Pinker’s talk was devoted to showing how most of the things than humans care about (except climate) have been getting drastically better over the last few centuries and decades. The roster includes length of life, health, food, prosperity, education, human rights, freedom from violence and accidents, leisure, and happiness — world wide. That
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I happen to be a bit of a student of history. As such, I’ve noticed that what we are witnessing in the United States (and much of the West, as I understand it) is a case study in the break down of civil society and the emergence of civil conflict. I imagine that if you
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It appears that at long last the popular sentiment seems to be boiling with enough intensity to (maybe) do something about the problem of social media. Good. It is high time. But, even if it turns out that we have reached the point where we are ready to do something, we come face to face with the
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“We’ll always have Paris” says Rick to Ilsa in the film Casablanca, referring to the cherished memory of their brief love affair, now over. I’ve been thinking a lot about Paris recently, though in less romantic terms. The Paris agreement on Climate Change sealed in 2015 was something of an international love-in. Announced with all sorts
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It might very well be the case that 2018 will be known as the “Year of Jordan Peterson”. If you happen to have read anything that I’ve written, you will have noticed that I come from a very different place than Dr. Peterson. I spend most of my time in high abstraction, thinking about global
This series began in 2015 with an effort to do a broad assessment of the various risks present in the total global environment. Last year (almost precisely 365 days ago), I focused specifically on the political situation in the United States and outlined what I considered to be the essential fronts of a new and
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The Nordic countries are not merely cute. There are things going on there beyond the open sandwiches and the charming crime dramas. And whatever their secret is, I’m fairly sure it goes beyond merely folksy notions about ‘coziness’ or ‘enoughness’ like ‘Hygge’ in Denmark or ‘Lagom’ in Sweden. Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland and all their
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