Books (then) Mayor Sarah Palin tried to remove from Wasilla library. When the librarian refused to ban the books, Palin tried to get her fired. This information is taken from the official minutes of the Wasilla Library Board. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle Annie on My Mind [...]
Read more →http://www.acumenfund.org/ Not a snowball’s chance in hell of getting it, but I apply for these things from time to time partly to spread the understanding of what we’re doing with the hexayurt etc. inside the organization and partly to keep retelling the story in different ways, to communicate it for different perspectives. We shall see. [...]
Read more →The Two Things summarizes essential professional wisdom in two sentences, such as The two things about economics One: Incentives matter. Two: There’s no such thing as a free lunch.” I have five examples. The two things about hexayurts: One: take twelve 4×8 panels, as close to Thermax HD as you can find, and then cut [...]
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Read more →Originally designed as refugee housing, a Hexayurt can be built for $200 from fire-safe insulation boards and industrial tape. The Hexayurt Project follows a free and open source model; plans can be downloaded at the project’s website. I visited two of these innovative shelters last year at Burning Man. One belonged to Lindsey Darby, a [...]
Read more →Deep reexamination of my field of projects, figuring out what stays and what goes, what prospers and what should be killed. I’m feeling very close to the end of this round of work on household infrastructure and called back towards the state level infrastructure stuff – State In A Box, not just the Identity Services [...]
Read more →I commissioned these from http://yirmumah.com/will-draw-anything/ To say that I am pleased with the results would be the most profound understatement.
Read more →It’s a bit interesting. The question is, given my perspective, why? There’s a ton of sources out there, written, books, tapes and so on that are perfectly adequate. I’m not qualified to teach advanced practices (being trained in a thing is not the same as being trained to teach people a thing, as anybody who [...]
Read more →it’s not hard to see the details of the plan arching off into the hyperbolic distance fractal repercussions of every cut thread i think i saw you again this path we call progress infinite goals semantic, memetic, genetic in being born we are reaching for infinity profusion, duration space and time the life of the [...]
Read more →If you want to change the world, get serious, get educated, and get to work. Pick a problem, whether it’s water quality or organic agriculture, and get good and educated. A lot you can get online – start with TED talks for an overview, then progress to UN reports and similar documents. It might take [...]
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