Just over a month ago, I tagged an article in The Guardian which had picked up on the work of Italian anthropologist Vito Teti on the social value of nostalgia. That sent me burrowing, but the only one of his books which I could find translated from la bella lingua (to quote Lucia, and […]
There is a little of the old and the new in the imagery I have used in this post. I took the banner picture on an evening walk along the Ridgeway from its official start on Overton Hill. The Ridgeway is one of the ancient pathways in Europe, and it can be walked as far […]
Yesterday, the alarm went off at 0500 to allow me to drive up to Liverpool for a series of meetings that started at 1000 and finished at 1930. Thanks to an accident on the M5, which necessitated a cross-country diversion through the Cotswolds, I got home shortly before midnight. It wasn’t strictly necessary to be […]
This is the first of two posts that will juxtapose the work of a modern writer with a classic from the past. A future post will look at Terry Pratchett as the modern-day Swift. Today I want to position Jasper Fforde as the modern-day Lewis Carroll hence the opening picture. For those who don’t know […]
I normally provide a quarterly summary of key blog posts but this year has been my least prolific ever, somewhat compensated by a rich year in terms of forthcoming publications, but more notable in terms of method and framework development with Estuarine Mapping being the highlight. The scarcity in one context probably has some relation […]
I was trying to remember when COVID started to impact me personally and touch wood despite lots of social contacts I either haven’t had it or didn’t notice if I did). Yes, I was aware of it, and that awareness crept up slowly and remorselessly. When it started it felt a little like SARS, not […]
Communicating and interacting with others is a funny thing. Even when we speak the same language, communicating is a hot bed for confusion and misunderstanding. What I write down here will likely be interpreted in slightly, and maybe in some cases majorly, different ways to my original intentions. However, communicating and understanding one another is […]
From time to time someone, knowing my interest in narrative sends me a link to yet another website collecting people’s stories. One popped up in slack as I was writing this offering a “magic formula” to change the world. It has some powerful stories all carefully curated by the design team. They are organised into […]
I talked yesterday about metaphor-based languages and used Winnie the Pooh as an illustration. That was part of a loose set of posts starting to develop and codify a more general theory of leadership from a sense-making and anthro-complexity perspective. One of the key components of that theory is the idea of communication through engagement. […]
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