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How We Fail: Framing the Problem to be Fixable with an Existing Solution

How We Fail: Framing the Problem to be Fixable with an Existing Solution We say we want solutions, but we actually want a specific subset of solutions: those that already meet with our approval.  The possibility that none of these pre-approved solutions will actually resolve the problem is rejected because we are wedded to the […]

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Our Impending Impasse and Sid Smith’s New Series

Our Impending Impasse and Sid Smith’s New Series Keowee Toxaway State Park, South Carolina I have a backlog of articles I have started but haven’t yet finished, so I’m starting with this one which has to do with our impending impasse. I think William Catton, Jr. worded that very well. It actually comes from his […]

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Problems, Predicaments, and Technology

Problems, Predicaments, and Technology We often see people bring out certain ideas that they claim are some sort of “solution” or that “they work” and I want to try to explain why (once again) these ideas are nothing more than ideas and not “solutions” of any sort. One of the things I most would like to […]

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When the “Solutions” Become the Problems

When the “Solutions” Become the Problems Those benefiting from these destructive “solutions” may think the system can go on forever, but it cannot go on when every “solution” becomes a self-reinforcing problem that amplifies all the other systemic problems. We are living in an interesting but by no means unique dynamic in which the solutions […]

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Olduvai IV: Courage
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Olduvai II: Exodus
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