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On a plain background, photos of pairs of hands showing: rocks + scissors, paper + rock, scissors + paper.

Reading 8

September 28, 2025October 5, 2025
Reading

This week’s 12 links: My time to read: 30 minutes Image from Uncle John’s blog… Read More »Reading 8

About a dozen people are standing in front of a huge aquarium, which is basically a whole wall of blue with large fish swimming past in it. You can only make out the silhouettes of the people, dark against the luminous blue background. A couple of them are filming on their phones, mirroring the deep blue of the tank.

Community is strength #2

August 11, 2025August 18, 2025
New stuff

Adrianna Tan, who I follow on Mastodon, posted something today that I want to remember.… Read More »Community is strength #2

Otto Scharmer's Theory U in diagram form. One loop labelled "social pathology (economies of destruction)" contains blaming, enacting violence and destroying. The other loop labelled "social emergence (economies of creation)" contains sensing, prototyping, creating.

Reading 5

August 10, 2025August 11, 2025
Reading

This week’s 12 links: My time to read: 1 hour 30 minutes Image credit: u-school… Read More »Reading 5

A 2x2 matrix of discomfort x interest, but each quadrant is further divided into 2. Low discomfort + low interest: apathy / restore Low discomfort + high interest: plateau / flow High discomfort + low interest: resentment / grit High discomfort + high interest: burn out / growth

Reading 4

July 20, 2025July 24, 2025
Reading

This week’s 12 links: My time to read: 1 hour 15 minutes Credit: Stewarding Loss… Read More »Reading 4

A bushy tomato plant grows out of a grow bag. It's laden with many green fruit, one branch already reddening to ripeness.

Community is strength #1

July 13, 2025August 18, 2025
New stuff

I was in the garden (fiddling with the plants, repotting, tidying, and so on) and… Read More »Community is strength #1

Selwyn Williams, wearing a checked shirt and a ricksack, standing in the sunshine and talking to someone out of shot.

Strength in love: a community movement for Wales

July 5, 2021October 19, 2024
Archive (old posts)

(Originally published in The Welsh Agenda #66, Spring / Summer 2021) A few months ago… Read More »Strength in love: a community movement for Wales