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Facebookers, unite!
Weeksworthy, November 25th 2017 The Atlantic Monthly — on a Saturday, not much competes with a newspaper on paper, but given how expensive it is to have The New York Times delivered to my door, and four days late, I settle for the next best: Online magazines, NYT and other reads; stuff that´s been piling up in the past week. And this week, for sure, the Atlantic Magazine story about
Uncharted homeland territory
Disrupted: The politics of belonging David Brooks, in the New York Times this morning – October 31st, 2018: “What you see is good people desperately trying to connect in an America where bonds are attenuated — without stable families, tight communities, stable careers, ethnic roots or an enveloping moral culture. There’s just a whirl of changing stepfathers, changing homes, changing phone distractions, changing pop-culture references, financial stress and chronic drinking,
The Planet and the Donald
A New York Times opinion editorial, April 20th 2017: Will we recover from the Trump presidency? Perhaps not: The thing with climate change is we don´t have much time, and not much is happening — so what happens when what little is happening gets reversed? “President Trump’s environmental onslaught will have immediate, dangerous effects. He has vowed to reopen coal mines and moved to keep the dirtiest power plants open for many years
Post-Donald Time
In the News: A Time for Trump, now Dump? Just recently, I hung my grandfather’s old clock on my wall, to remind myself that there is such a thing as time, even in our times. It’s the kind of clock where you can easily reset the handles, to adjust the time shown. You needed to reset time back then. Clocks didn’t tick as accurately as they do now. You also had
Trump’s alternative realities
What to read and what to do about it – – – A Saturday morning ritual for many years, I read the New York Times more or less from cover to cover. When I can, I do it on paper. When I can’t, and that’s most of the time, I do it online. In recent years, I have started to prefer the online version even when the paper version is
Fresh Air Radio — on a Saturday
It´s the economy, stupid: Bill said it–did Hillary listen?Sometimes you wish Bill was back, but there´s another story I have in mind right here: Not the story of how Hillary Clinton failed to take Bill Clinton´s most important piece of insight with her into her own presidential bid. Not, the story of how her failing to address the fundamentals of economic inequality in a convincing manner, led to the election
Trump Watch: Four years to come
Peoples´choice. I read, and I try to follow the arguments. All I know is that no one — absolutely no one – has a clue. What happens next, when a man is elected president one day and the day before was generally declared either “saviour” by half of the general public or “unfit for the office of president” by the entire establishment — except for Bob Dole, News Gingrich, Rudolph
Thinking about the Donald
As days pass by, the number of photos of Donald Trump will increase, as will the general impression they give. Less fun with his hair and more focus on the statesman. Meanwhile, these photos figured at the top of my own search right now. And the Saturday Night Live version of Donald Trump – by Alec Baldwin – is a saver.
Notater fra BI og Abelia: Future Learning Lab
Future Learning Lab — et forskernettverk — står bak en årlig konferanse som etter hvert samler et betydelig antall fageller — i 2015 ca. 200 og i 2016 opp mot 300 på den innledende plenumsdagen. Et par referanser her til våre konferanser i 2015 og 2016 slik Handelshøyskolen BI og interesseorganisasjonen Abelia presenterte oss: Hjemmesida vår 2016 her. BI Learning Labs hjemmesider, datert 24.april 2015: Et utdrag her fra BIs
Life´s wisdom; “it for sure ain´t innovation”
A beagle – aka The Red Baron – often gets it right without even trying. Unlike the blues brooder himself – Charlie Brown – the beagle beats with an attitude — he knows how not to spend time or a dime on what you can´t change. So, here is one for me; yesterday at a meeting in Oslo, my research group Future Learning Lab got the endorsement of the ABELIA in the Norwegian Trade
Friendliness works — take 2
Last year living close by, I found this place because they play classical music. It’s the usual set-up in Berkeley, as in a lot of other places across this country: A bunch of people sitting at tables with one computer each, hacking away, and drinking coffee or tea while enjoying the benefits of free internet. Traffic on the outside. Traffic on the inside. It’s not your internet cafe of the 1990’s. Everyone
Friendliness works
About a week into my current trip to Palo Alto and Berkeley, I find myself sitting in a place I know all too well: Peet’s Coffee House on University Avenue in Palo Alto — the heart of Silicon Valley. The first one for me, way back in 2008 when I first came here. And countless visits since moving home, moving back, and then moving home again, in the summer of