Category: Retrospectives
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Retrospective 2020-05–18
This is a summary of my reading and painting during the last three months (week 5–18, 2020). Painting I love painting flowers. Here are my other paintings. Reading I have read the following books: Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art by Stephen Nachmanovitch The Art of Is: Improvising as a Way of Life by…
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Retrospective 2020-04
This is a summary of last week’s reading and painting. Painting There’s an old tree close to where I live. Below are three paintings where I have explored its shape. Reading I’ve continued reading Sidney Dekker’s The Safety Anarchist. Dekker describes how a single-minded pursuit of rationality — hierarchical decision-making, centralized control, measurements — gives…
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Retrospective 2020-03
This is a summary of last week’s reading. I have read Stanislav Grof’s When the Impossible Happens. Grof mentions how various destructive and self-destructive patterns are being passed from one generation to another. A similar pattern operates on the collective level. Unbridled violence and insatiable greed keep breading new violence and immense suffering. I have…
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Retrospective 2020-02
This is a summary of last week’s reading. I’ve mentioned previously that I feel a need to wrap-up my series of posts on deeper generative organizing. One way of saying it is that: “There is no formula, except this is a formula.”1 As soon as we rely on formulas, procedures, and defined processes, we become…
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Retrospective 2020-01
This is a retrospective of my reading last year. Introduction Looking back, I realize that I read less than half of what I used to read. I also realize that I published very few book reviews (see end of post). The reason is that I started painting and love it! Below are lists of the…
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Retrospective 2019-52
This is a look back at last week’s reading, blogging, and painting. Reading I’ve continued reading F. David Peat. I finished reading From Certainty to Uncertainty, and re-read Peat’s books on Gentle Action and Synchronicity. I started my inquiry into deeper generative organizing after having read David Bohm and F. David Peat’s book Science, Order,…
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Retrospective 2019-51
This is a look back at the week. Blogging This week, I finally got the copying of my tweets to my new microblog done. It took three weeks to figure out how to do the copying, and four days(!) for the computer program to do it. I ran into performance issues. Adding new posts took…
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Retrospective 2019-50
This is a retrospective of my reading and programming last week. I started reading From Certainty to Uncertainty by F. David Peat this week. Peat is one of my favorite authors. He writes very well about interesting topics. Previously I’ve read the following books by Peat: A Question of Physics: Conversations in Physics and Biology…
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Retrospective 2019-49
This is a look back at last week’s reading and painting. Painting I painted a candelabrum designed by Erik Höglund. The play of light in the low-lying sun caught my attention. Books I finished reading John Briggs and F. David Peat’s Seven Life Lessons of Chaos. The lessons in the book are attempts to penetrate…
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Retrospective 2019-48
This is a summary of what happened last week. Painting This is the second week in a row that I have not painted. So many other things have been going on. Training I attended a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Training during the week. The focus in Lean Six Sigma is on removing waste and…