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680: Wolfgang Lutz: A Primer in Demographics and Global Population Projections

on March 31, 2023 in Podcast

Wolfgang Lutz is one of the world’s experts in projecting global population levels and demography. I contacted him to help understand the differences between projections based on demography like his and the United Nations’ versus systemic ones like in Limits to Growth. He gave a comprehensive overview of who projects and how, at least as much as can be covered in under an hour. Some highlights: Who projects based on[…] Keep reading →

666: Mark Plotkin: Learning From Indigenous Cultures, the People Not Just Our Projections

on February 3, 2023 in Podcast

Every step I take toward sustainability leads me to learn how much humans have figured out how to live sustainably. I’m far from living sustainably, though I’ve come a long way. We are wiping out the cultures living sustainably these cultures, now hanging on by threads. Besides practices and viewpoints, I’m learning humility. We don’t have all the answers. Far from it. They may not either, but at least they[…] Keep reading →

666: Mark Plotkin: Learning From Indigenous Cultures, the People Not Just Our Projections

on February 3, 2023 in Podcast

Every step I take toward sustainability leads me to learn how much humans have figured out how to live sustainably. I’m far from living sustainably, though I’ve come a long way. We are wiping out the cultures living sustainably these cultures, now hanging on by threads. Besides practices and viewpoints, I’m learning humility. We don’t have all the answers. Far from it. They may not either, but at least they[…] Keep reading →

328: Tony Wagner, Learning by Heart

on April 19, 2020 in Podcast

People often ask for advice on how to lead in a given situation, what leadership means, or one tip they can improve their leadership with. Nearly none of the questions help someone improve their leadership. The most useful question I can think of is: How do I learn to lead? In other words, what steps can I take to learn to lead? No leader would answer: read a lot of[…] Keep reading →

328: Tony Wagner, Learning by Heart

on April 19, 2020 in Podcast

People often ask for advice on how to lead in a given situation, what leadership means, or one tip they can improve their leadership with. Nearly none of the questions help someone improve their leadership. The most useful question I can think of is: How do I learn to lead? In other words, what steps can I take to learn to lead? No leader would answer: read a lot of[…] Keep reading →

Mind-blowing learning that works: Self-Directed Education

on September 14, 2018 in Education, Freedom, Models

Sometimes you discover a way of doing things so obviously more effective than how you were taught that you can’t believe how twisted our society has become. The new way shows how much the systems we’ve created twist us to fit their goals, however much those goals smother and corrupt our basic humanity that served us for hundreds of thousands of years, living in harmony with our world, and still[…] Keep reading →

An educational, learning perspective on Leadership Step by Step from the Better Leadership Better Schools podcast

on February 8, 2017 in Education, Leadership

Daniel Bauer of the Better Leaders Better Schools podcast interviewed me and posted it today. As Daniel helps develop school leaders, mainly K-12, he approached Leadership Step by Step and my work from a more learning and educational perspective than most of the business and personal development approaches of other interviews. It’s a natural perspective since I’m teaching, so I’m glad he did. The interview touched on a lot of[…] Keep reading →

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