Unsticking and anti-procrastination
29 September 2011Ideas from various other people on the subject of getting on with things, getting unstuck etc, and a few comments & comparisons from me.
Me and creativity, inc quotes from Barbara Sher
31 December 2010A book recommendation and some related thoughts…
Designing the world, or not
10 August 2010Some what-ifs about our world, prompted by a quote from Alice Walker.
Your own way
2 April 2010Lots 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.
Gears metaphor: examples and variations
29 January 2010Following on from the metaphor of “gearing up”, here are some “example gears”, and some more things I thought about it as I experimented.
“Gearing up” metaphor
7 January 2010Sometimes 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.
Information as activist resource
6 June 2009More thoughts about remembering or losing information, this time from an activism angle.
Remind + Ubuntu + Gmessage
30 April 2009A 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.
The art of remembering
3 April 2009Some thoughts on saving, retrieving, handing on or losing information. Ratchets, branches, channels, dead ends etc.
Not herding cats: job design for teams
3 September 2008My thoughts on how to construct a workable team of lots of people, with particular reference to BiCon, the UK bisexuality conference/convention.
Activism energy supplies
27 August 2008Some thoughts on the need to nurture the “next generation” of activists, influenced by Starhawk’s i.m.o. excellent book “Truth or Dare“.
Temptations to take on too much
27 January 2008Too busy already? Overloaded, overwhelmed? But maybe you could just take on one more thing…