by Nicole Civita | Aug 8, 2024 | Uncategorized
You might know cosmolocalism by another, less cryptic name: Design Global – Manufacture Local. In its earliest and most practical forms, this concept combines globally open source design with local or regional production to get the best of both worlds. When...
by Greg Nelson | Aug 6, 2024 | Uncategorized
Beginning on Friday, August 2, 2024, global financial markets took a dramatic turn that has impacted both the high-flying US tech stocks and markets in countries around the world, particularly in Japan. Many people—avid market watchers, lay investors, and...
by Michelle Auerbach & Nicole Civita | Jul 31, 2024 | Uncategorized
When we engage in learning and as adults, outside of the walls of the academy or for reasons that don’t involve credentials and ties to the potential of economic advancement, what we are doing is engaging in individual and collective healing. Anything less than that...
by Michelle Auerbach | Jul 25, 2024 | Uncategorized
A few months ago I had a jarring exchange with someone I am mentoring in a change organization. I suggested that preparation for our meetings was essential and asked if we could brainstorm ways they could approach the work so that it felt possible to get it done. They...
by Lauren Zitney | Jul 17, 2024 | Uncategorized
Using language to talk about language is a challenge. I mean to talk about “language,” and yet — I don’t even know what that means. Spoken language? Body language? Sign language? Written language? Computer programming language? More than human language? Interspecies...
by Joe Fassler | Jul 17, 2024 | Uncategorized
A few weeks back, I gave a talk on feeling stuck. When I asked the audience for a show of hands — who’s struggled with writers’ block before? — sixty arms lifted without hesitation. It seems to be nearly universal among writers, that experience of staring at the...
