rumon carter
@rumon.ca
Partner. Bonuspappa. Biologist. Lawyer. Technologist. Coach. Outdoorsperson. Focused on cultivating thriving people, teams, communities and publics.
love is a place & through this place of love move (with brightness of peace) all places yes is a world & in this world of yes live (skillfully curled) all worlds ~ E.E. Cummings (Frank Island, Augusts past)
Just ran 13.0 km in 1:08:50 at a 5:18/km pace https://fitsky.app/workout/did:plc:zmusjgixfem2bnpte72zqmsq/3ms7tgqgtos2g
Running
Just ran 13.0 km in 1:08:50 at a 5:18/km pace
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There’s a much longer story that I haven’t been detailing here about a return to health and fitness (post-50), but for now indulge me as I share how grateful I feel to be able to run again, in particular to be able to do so with my partner (well, for 1/2 the run!), and in a place like this, my home.
Found myself at a dinner party the other night trying to explain to friends the #ATProto, why I believe it matters and am motivated to be involved in it (and related efforts) … cheers @reckless.bsky.social for the typically 🎯 interview helping to inform future versions of that chat.
The Verge@theverge.com · 3d agoCEO Toni Schneider on protocols, community, and control. www.theverge.com/podcast/9743...
CEO Toni Schneider on protocols, community, and control. www.theverge.com/podcast/9743...
Bluesky’s new CEO wants to grow it all
Bluesky is many different things in a trenchcoat.
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Last last last call to attend How People Work, Live! ... with Russell Davies this morning at 9am PT. Free registration link and signups for the next episodes at the show page: www.verylittlegravitas.com/how-people-w...
How People Work, Live! — Very Little Gravitas
The live show that about how to people, helping teams deliver better, faster.
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“[W]hen we're together, no one's wondering when the next cell phone's going to come out or when’s the next big sale at fill in the blank retailer. We’re so present because we are inside of primary satisfactions.”*
“Freedom does not mean the absence of responsibilities. Freedom means you get to choose your responsibilities.” I just finished reading Jim Collins’ book, “What to Make of a Life,” in which he rephrases and shares a definition of freedom he first heard from author Toni Morrison […]
On Freedom, and the Future
A reflection on the entanglements of freedom and responsibility, by way of Jim Collins, in his book, “What to Make of a Life”.
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Second set of words, now with an image, on @leaflet.pub. 🤓
When Social Was Pro-Social, and Sharing Was Additive Rather Than Extractive
Second trial @leaflet.pub post, this time including an image to see how that renders when cross-posted to Bluesky. And, in doing so, also an excuse to post the full content associated with my last post, via @flashes.blue, which I had to truncate due to a word count limit.
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As I continue my exploration of AT Proto / Bluesky linked apps, today it’s Flashes … with ironic content given this is a repost - including adapted description - of my first post on Instagram, this week, in nearly a year…
Next up, a first experiment with @leaflet.pub …
On the origins of - and our responses to - terminology
Borrowing an invitation from Vanessa Machado de Oiveira, via the introduction from her book, “Outgrowing Modernity,” to “[understand] that complexity resists neatness - and so should the language we use to navigate it.”
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Investing some time during this just-kicked-off couple weeks off work to invest in some learning and experimentation with tools in the @atmosphere … using this article as a guide (thank you) storm.leaflet.pub/3mpkjgwssks2u, starting here, with @germnetwork.com bsky.app/profile/germ...
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Update: This more than met my expectations, which had been primed by a couple of Ries’ recent podcast appearances. Found it proper inspiring and hope it’s widely read - and, better, its ideas promoted and more extensively deployed. 1/x
rumon carter@rumon.ca · 2mo agoNext read, started today on the way into work … been really looking forward to this since hearing about it … yes, for the core focus on businesses, but perhaps even more for applications to public institutions too. @ericries.bsky.social
Dan’s expansion on this thread under the heading “The Sanest Choice In An Insane World” in his latest Things That Caught My Attention newsletter is so on the nose it evoked a full-body shudder of agreement+rejection. Recommended read + reflect (and subscribe): newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s21e...
s21e09: A Different Strategy, The Sanest Choice In An Insane World
0.0 Context Setting Thursday, 3 July in Portland, Oregon, which is the day before the day that the main events of Independence Day (1996) occur. 0.1 Events...
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Dan Hon@danhon.com · last mo.I'm being totally sincere here pointing out the validity of Sarah Connor's perspective in T2 & comparing LLM usage: "It would never leave him, and it would never hurt him, never shout at him, or get drunk and hit him, or say it was too busy to spend time with him" THAT SAID [cont]
The 2021 Nk’Mip Creek wildfire in B.C. burned more than 20,000 hectares, including two woodlands in Osoyoos Indian Band territory. A new plan to revitalize these forests would turn them into fire-resistant zones full of biodiversity, wildlife and medicinal plants. thenarwhal.ca/osoyoos-indi...
Osoyoos Indian Band restores wildfire-ravaged forests | The Narwhal
After Okanagan wildfire, Osoyoos Indian Band is restoring wildlife and biodiversity to the land
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“‘I think art has a role of potential diplomacy...’ he says. ‘If we’re not bombing each other here, then we should all be here.’ Then again, Akhavan isn’t necessarily satisfied by showing at art biennales. These days, he says, his life’s dream is to work in wildlife conservation.” And yet, he is.
The Walrus@thewalrus.ca · last mo.Canada's representative at this year's Venice Biennale isn't offering easy political symbolism. Instead, artist Abbas Akhavan is filling the Canadian pavilion with plants, challenging what we expect art to explain about nature, identity, and belonging. https://ow.ly/Ymc550ZjUmG
Next read, started today on the way into work … been really looking forward to this since hearing about it … yes, for the core focus on businesses, but perhaps even more for applications to public institutions too. @ericries.bsky.social
Evening, yesterday, in the low-angle light and ocean breezes in the back garden. 💚
“[Obama held] the conviction that democracy only functions when its leaders remain genuinely, uncomfortably close to the specific gravity of individual human suffering rather than processing it from the insulating distance of institutions and screens.” ❤️➕ Via substack.com/@kathy622729...
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History books have overlooked the fact that Barack Obama, during the most pressure-saturated nights of his presidency, would retreat alone to the Treaty Room on the second floor of the White House res...
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“At the heart of this story, I think, is a simple, abiding belief: it is possible to live wisely on the land, and to live well. And in behaving respectfully toward all that the land contains, it is possible to imagine a stifling ignorance falling away from us.” ~ Barry López, Arctic Dreams
Woof. “Maybe what people call “competency porn” is really just longing. Longing for visible usefulness. Longing for craft, for stakes. Longing to believe that what you do with your time might still have some intelligible relationship to another human being’s life.” open.substack.com/pub/readfoun...
'Competency Porn' Is Just Grief: A Too-Fast Reaction to The Pitt Season 2 Finale
We are not just watching competence. We are mourning a world where work still mattered.
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“Absence is harder to track and feel than presence. The ghosts of gone birds fade quickly from memory,” writes Robert Macfarlane. “It does not have to be this way—but we will not save what we do not love, and we rarely love what we cannot name.” https://ow.ly/hCAN50YLrAm
Always more than good - and too rare - to start a day at work within a place of the work, reconnecting to the mission and meaning. 📍Goldstream Park, W̱SÁNEĆ Territory
