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Your own way

Lots of people are ready to give you advice. But only some of it will be any use - because they’re not you.
Includes a link to a lovely article of Havi’s, and four book recommendations.

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Gears metaphor: examples and variations

Following on from the metaphor of “gearing up”, here are some “example gears”, and some more things I thought about it as I experimented.

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“Gearing up” metaphor

Sometimes it’s not a bad idea to “do the easy things first” - because sometimes once you’re “on a roll”, the hard things don’t seem so hard.

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Information as activist resource

More thoughts about remembering or losing information, this time from an activism angle.

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Remind + Ubuntu + Gmessage

A description of how I used the Remind program to give me some useful pop-up reminders on my PC. Probably only of interest if you might want to run the same program yourself.

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The art of remembering

Some thoughts on saving, retrieving, handing on or losing information. Ratchets, branches, channels, dead ends etc.

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Not herding cats: job design for teams

My thoughts on how to construct a workable team of lots of people, with particular reference to BiCon, the UK bisexuality conference/convention.

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Activism energy supplies

Some thoughts on the need to nurture the “next generation” of activists, influenced by Starhawk’s i.m.o. excellent book “Truth or Dare“.

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Temptations to take on too much

Too busy already? Overloaded, overwhelmed? But maybe you could just take on one more thing…

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The ten-point “Starty Stoppy Scale”

If you’d like to have “less on your plate”, then where are the richest opportunities for reclaiming some time?

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