I am enjoying this Google feature. Really nice way to manage all sorts of note taking, and linking to the web. Making them public seems ok, though my notes are mainly for me, bookmarks and tools for my writing etc. The public version does not show the lovely ajax enabled fluidity for managing these notes, showing & hiding them & moving them to different notebooks. Here are my public ones just set up today:
John Brockman interviewed by Kim Hill
Radio New Zealand – Saturday, 15 July:
9.05am Interview: John Brockman Literary agent and founder of online salon The Edge Foundation (www.edge.org) to bring together people working at the edge of a broad range of scientific and technical fields. He is the editor of: ‘What We Believe But Cannot Prove: Today’s Leading Thinkers on Science in the Age of Certainty’ (ISBN 0060841818), ‘Curious Minds: How a Child Becomes a Scientist’ (ISBN 0-375-42291-9), and many other books.
I don’t know how long the podcast will be up there for. Forever I hope, but I listened to it later via mp3 player – which is agreat thing to be able to do! I found it interesting, always one to enjoy the reminiscences of a boomer in the 60’s. Disturbing too… such interesting people and stories and ideas but with is a strange scientism in the mix, he sides with Dawkins not Gould, there is a glowing link to Denis Dutton at the end, who maligns psychotherapy with his zealous cult like devotion to skepticism.
More on Brockman here by Bruce Stirling (Interesting that I just said he is interesting):
Wired 7.09: Agent Provocateur:
“You’re not interesting?” “Not not-interesting!” he snaps. “Post-interesting! Interesting doesn’t pay. Well, it pays once, but not twice. I used to be interesting. I was, like, the It Boy. Being so interesting – well, it’s not so interesting.”
Then and Now:
Psyche, Soul, Unconscious I
Odeo: Psyche, Soul, Unconscious IProfessional identity
My third psyberspace podcast
Download: MP3
Listen: Odeo
Psychotherapy & Counselling – the difference – registration of Psychotherapy as a profession in New Zealand
There is no simple way of saying that someone is doing a psychotherapy in the way we could say they have done an analysis. Psychotherapy as a project!
I also ask the question of how all this might apply or not to psychotherapy online.
Honouring a Classic
A Beginner's Guide to Effective Email
This is a link to Kaitlin Duck Sherwood's classic and once rather useful guide. Effective Email is not a bad title. It is, in hindsight an idealistic paper, honourable because of that but also impractical & frustrating. There is an ideology about email embedded in the work that we now know will remain an ideal. In 2006 this 2000 document is dated. It is dated not just because it is from the last century or because of new technology (it is somewhat technology neutral, but technology has surpassed these older ideas) but mainly because something completely new is needed
* to relate to the reality of actual practice
* to grapple with ineffective practices and fallacies that have gained more popularity
For example there is a link to a page by Kaitlin Duck Sherwood on Email Overload. Which has a range of tips, some better than others but which is flawed in its attitude to the question. Even in its title.
There is no such thing as email overload, any more than that there is a library overload, or an art gallery overload, information overload or a shortage of time, or difficult problems… you get the idea, own the challenge, don’t be a victim to abundance in the world; be wise to the flow of stuff.
I am planning some posts here around Email Intelligence. I want to find the central principles of wise email practices.
This is not a trivial thing, a good practitioner would be a back belt in communication, there would be personal fitness combined with a thorough tradition, and like judo would use the energy in the "enemy" as a source of strength, as a friend. There may be a bigger topic here – the art of communication in the digital era. I will however focus (slowly I'm afraid) on principles and practices related to email. And in case you have not spotted, I am already indebted to David Allen's GTD tradition in my thinking here. They are good on email practice, and I also see limitations.
I recall some earlier posts on this theme. I will go back & tag some old posts.
The inventor of the web speaks out to protect his creation!
timbl’s blog | Decentralized Information Group (DIG) Breadcrumbs:
When I invented the Web, I didn’t have to ask anyone’s permission. Now, hundreds of millions of people are using it freely. I am worried that that is going end in the USA.
He puts it really well, he can see that there is a fundamental human right about neutrality of access.
A third wave of Jungian thought?
A Review of “Dialectics and Analytical Psychology: The El Capitan Canyon Seminar” – CG Jung Page:
Miller insists that Giegerich’s thought is not a negation of what Hillman’s archetypal theorizing had accomplished, “but rather a call to continue it radically in an attempt to complete it in its and Jung’s own spirit, an anima-psychology sublated by an animus-psychology.” Giegerich does not deny that the soul is image, Miller writes, but insists that “The soul always thinks.”
Defence against pain
Here is another Audio (9.56 min):
Shownotes:
Thanks Dan for your response.
Maybe my reticence is not for professional reasons … a defence – See Freud's list here on Wikipedia
What are defenses about & for?
What about James Hillman's Acorn Theory
Whatever I am defended about there is also a need to find a way through some genuine difficulties.
Also mentioned:
Sukie Colegrave – By Way of Pain
Sukie Colegrave – Uniting Heaven & Earth
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Sub to Psyberspace, the Podcast:
Vanity
A bit of vanity: Looking for the oldest entry with my name in it and found one from February 1994 and more vanity, embarrasing: 1998 Psybernet Web page
Podcast
Playing around with Odio. The audio snip in the last post in now in a new RSS feed called Psyberspace. Who knows what will come of it all. I have done this before, early in 2005 but it is easier now! Also it may be that I can find my voice in that sphere where cyber and psyche meet. It may be that it will sit well with my professional life.