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Anthony Judge: World Introversion through Paracycling – Global Potential for Living Sustainabily “Outside-Inside”

Commercial Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence
Anthony Judge
Anthony Judge

World Introversion through Paracycling

Global potential for living sustainably “outside-inside”

Introduction
Incoherence of external reality
Transformation of worldview from “inside-outside” to “outside-inside”
Imagining a window of strategic opportunity for change
Insightful confusion: outside-in, inversion, introversion?
Alleviating the “weight” of external matters
Alternation of worldview between “inside-outside” and “outside-inside”
Paradoxical cycling between “inside-outside” and “outside-inside”
Paracycling: towards a terminological and visual clarification
Sphere eversion as guide to the cognitive twist of global introversion?
Imagining transcendence appropriately challenging to comprehension
Approaches to distinguishing requisite cognitive variety
Paradoxically dynamic coherence of internalized “pantheons”
Engaging with “peaceful” and “wrathful” deities
Embodying the world as a strategic opportunity
References

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Robin Good: Attention Doesn’t Scale – the Role of Content Curation in Membership Associations

Collective Intelligence
Robin Good
Robin Good

Elizabeth Weaver Engel and Jeff De Cagna are the authors of a small but very useful guide to Content Curation originally written for membership groups, and first published in November 2012.  The guide offers a good introduction to why content curation is so important, how it can help any organization and what are the key things to know about it for anyone who knows little or nothing about it.  From the original PDF guide, entitled “Attention Doesn't Scale: The Role of Content Curation in Membership Associations“:

“Content curation provides a potential path to a new type of thought leadership, one that is more suited to a world where information is no longer the scarce resource. Focus is. Meaning is. Wisdom is.

But that type of support will require a signicant shift in our business models.

For decades, associations have been in the business of generating information.

Our challenge now is to transform ourselves into being in the business of sense-making, helping members distinguish what new information is most relevant and integrate that information into their mental categories, and meaning-making, helping them understand the implications of that  new information for their worldviews.”

Lots of good tips, references and relevant resources listed. Provides good foundational reference for any serious business reader.  Good intro to content curation. Resourceful. Informative. 8/10.  Pass it on.

YouTube Z(23:41) video: The Role of Content Curation in Associations: Interview With Elizabeth Engel) by Brian Kelly of AssociationMaves.com

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Neal Rauhauser: Syria’s Prospects, Water Loss in the Region

Earth Intelligence, Peace Intelligence
Neal Rauhauser
Neal Rauhauser

The Keys To The Kingdom

When NATO undertook the job of providing air support for Libyan rebels one of the actions they were tacitly supporting was the demolition of the Libyan state security apparatus. A hated tool of repression, those employed in it were slaughtered where ever they were found, offices were looted, files were burned, and systems destroyed. The effort to stabilize the country now involves their former colonial masters, the Italians, helping to rebuild this government function. Rebuilding the Libyan Intelligence provides a decent read with Italian to English translation.

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Tigris & Euphrates River Basin Water Loss

From the beginning of 2003 to the end of 2009, portions of Iran, Iraq, Turkey and Syria that lie within the Tigris and Euphrates river basins shed 117 million acre-feet of water. That’s roughly equivalent to the volume of the Dead Sea.

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Search: management, integration, and oversight of intelligence collection and covert action

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Here is the original post of the document and our critique.

Reference: Intelligence Community Directive (ICD) Number 300: Management, Integration, and Oversight of Intelligence Collection and Covert Action

Since then the position of the ADDNI/OS has been abolished, the long-standing director of the OSC that did so much damage in his ignorance and arrogance has retired, to be replaced by a second stringer from the NRO, and of course we now know that there is no management, no integration, and no oversight of intelligence collection and covert action — nor is there any management, integration, and oversight of everything else: processing, analysis, outreach, sharing, or the creation of ethical evidence-based decision-support, which is simply not what the US secret world does.  It collects — everything — as espensively as possible.  It kills with drones — with a 98% error rate — and also very expensively.  It does nothing useful to Whole of Government to to creating a prosperous world at peace, a world in which the USA can enjoy the fruits of peace, commerce, and friendship.

Below are a few graphics and high-level pieces on what the US intelligence should look like.  They are logical extensions of the earlier pieces published in the early 1990's.

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