The double spiral shown is a computer generated Clothoide, or Cornu spiral. Artistically rendered double spirals symbolize the subject of this article, balance between mysteries: yin-yang, male-female, zero-infinity, and the like. The logo of the Compression Institute resembles an Archimedes spiral, occurring in nature from galaxies to snail shells. Spiral enthusiasts get into generating spirals in […]
Dance to the Tune of Life: Biological Relativity, by Denis Noble Book Review by Doc Hall How we explain to ourselves the answers to two big questions underpins the myriad assumptions that guide how we behave: Why are we here? (Our purpose for existence) What is the environment in which we live? (From quantum-scale to […]
The video does not summarize “Psychic Drivers” (5 minute video) Psychic Drivers by Doc Hall Decades ago a popular German business quip was, “Are you acquiring 30 years of experience, or 1 year of experience 30 times?” It was mostly used for admonition: never accept dead-end jobs, and never create them. People want to learn […]
Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error, by Kathryn Schulz Kathryn Schulz is a professional journalist and writer covering a broad range of topics. This book was her foray into heavier non-fiction topics, and she researched it well. It’s been out a while, and well acclaimed. Obviously leaning on a liberal arts education, she […]
Listen to the podcast; join the follow-up teleconference at www.compression.org. This podcast topic is “Deep Changing Our Collective Behavior.” Learn how to address complex issues, think from alternate viewpoints, originate solutions, and dialog with others. Teleconference: Of all our existential threats, our biggest is “psychic numbness” – blindness to our situation, reluctance to act, inability […]
Listen to the podcast; join the follow-up teleconference at www.compression.org. This podcast topic is “Transportation: Stuck in Traffic.” Learn how to address complex issues, think from alternate viewpoints, originate solutions, and dialog with others. Teleconference: Only 28% of US energy is used by vehicles, but in American society it is hard to do anything without […]
Listen to the podcast; join the follow-up teleconference at www.compression.org. This podcast topic is “How Healthy is Health Care?” Learn how to address complex issues, think from alternate viewpoints, originate solutions, and dialog with others. Teleconference: Technically, U.S. curative care is tops, but the American health care system is bloated. The system treats 60% of […]
Listen to the podcast; join the follow-up teleconference at www.compression.org. This podcast topic is “What Does Clean Mean?” Learn how to address complex issues, think from alternate viewpoints, originate solutions, and dialog with others. Teleconference: Can you be too clean? Microbiome research suggests that you can; that you need a strong immune system. A commercial […]
Listen to the podcast; join the follow-up teleconference at www.compression.org. This podcast topic is “Fashionable Waste.” Learn how to address complex issues, think from alternate viewpoints, originate solutions, and dialog with others. Teleconference: The waste of being fashionable is enormous when it is a commodity marketed to everyone. The podcast spews out a few statistics […]
Listen to the podcast; join the follow-up teleconference at www.compression.org. This podcast topic is “Deep Change.” Learn how to address complex issues, think from alternate viewpoints, originate solutions, and dialog with others. Teleconference: To make big changes in how we think and work, we must successfully challenge our deepest assumptions and beliefs. Some are so […]
Listen to the podcast; join the follow-up teleconference at www.compression.org. This podcast topic is “Quality Over Quantity, Always.” Learn how to address complex issues, think from alternate viewpoints, originate solutions, and dialog with others. Teleconference: Commercial quality refers to the properties of a product or service. Compression Thinking expands that definition to the quality of […]
Listen to the podcast; join the follow-up teleconference at www.compression.org. This podcast topic is “Organize for Learning.” Learn how to address complex issues, think from alternate viewpoints, originate solutions, and dialog with others. Teleconference: By this point, we should have created doubts that we can cure the ills of the environment while preserving high-growth expansionary […]
Listen to the podcast; join the follow-up teleconference at www.compression.org. This podcast topic is “Symbiotic Thinking.” Learn how to address complex issues, think from alternate viewpoints, originate solutions, and dialog with others. Teleconference: Symbiotic Thinking is Systems Thinking with an added twist. For every decision of consequence, give its effects on nature top priority. Do […]
Listen to the podcast; join the follow-up teleconference at www.compression.org. This podcast topic is “Lawns and Biodiversity.” Learn how to address complex issues, think from alternate viewpoints, originate solutions, and dialog with others. Teleconference: The waste growing lawns is enormous, but we seldom see it. Seeing something as common as lawn care from a different […]
Listen to the podcast; join the follow-up teleconference at www.compression.org. This podcast topic is “The Earth is Finite.” Learn how to address complex issues, think from alternate viewpoints, originate solutions, and dialog with others. Teleconference: Seen from space, the earth is finite. Its resources, space, and disposal capacity are limited, but we behave as if […]
Listen to the podcast; join the follow-up teleconference at www.compression.org. This podcast introduces the concepts: What is Compression Thinking?” Learn how to address complex issues, think from alternate viewpoints, originate solutions, and dialog with others. Teleconference: Many risks imperil ecologies all over the world. When we hear of them, it is usually one at a […]
Compression Thinking Series (3 minute video) Compression Thinking Series 12 Podcasts and Teleconferences from the Compression Institute by Robert “Doc” Hall and Ethan Berry Why the Compression Thinking Series? Our intent is to engage people in thinking differently, or Compression Thinking. Environmental initiatives abound, but few seem to address the scope of these issues holistically. […]
Too Little Thought for Consequences? Google 5G technology, or Internet of Things and you open the hype spigot on how wonderful 5G going to be. Up pops “inside scoops” on where to invest in 5G lest you miss out on this next new, new thing. However, doubts are creeping in. Parents near elementary schools in […]
The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes, by Donald Hoffman Book Review by Doc Hall The philosophical and scientific quest to define consciousness is one of the foremost issues of our time. Don Hoffman is at the leading edge of this field of inquiry. A professor in the Department of Cognitive […]
(2 minute video) Revitalizing Ourselves With: The Compression Thinking Series Although a month or more from roll out, we’re preparing a series of twelve podcasts followed by teleconferences to which you will be invited. Each teleconference will last two hours. We want to deeply engage you in what needs to be done – by you […]
Should Humans Adopt a Mushroom Strategy? The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins, by Anna L. Tsing In some ways, mushrooms are smarter than people. We should pay more attention. Although not quite said, that’s the conclusion of Anna Tsing, Professor of Anthropology at the University […]
Call of The Reed Warbler: A New Agriculture, A New Earth by Charles Massy Review by Don Stewart Massy is an Australian farmer who earned a mid-life PhD in Human Ecology. In the course of doing the research for his dissertation, he met and studied the methods used by many “regenerative’ farmers,” mostly in Australia, and […]
Deep Change (video 4 minutes) Deep Diving into Deep Everything “Deep” describes change so complete that we lose our reference points to the past, and struggle to understand. We may have to dredge up unarticulated assumptions about how the world works, and we can’t question beliefs so deep that we were unaware of them. The […]
