Podcast appearances and mentions of John Seymour

We look at Saving Our World: Plan B The Citizens' Mandate for Change by John Seymour. Saving Our World: Plan B The Citizens' Mandate for Change, reviewed This book is passionate, heartfelt, well researched and well intentioned. There are also lots of great quotes from positive and inspirational people too. The challenge is most definitely, with so many fossil fuel lobby backed people in positions of power, is, still, how on earth does humanity move away from it's negative and future damaging behaviour. When septuagenarian are voted into positions of power, dubiously oftentimes too, how on earth are these people credible in terms of thinking about long term, or even middle term, or beyond their next cheese burger. This is the massive challenge we face, on this planet, and for all authors wishing to tackle this topic. This does not mean we should not engage with it. If we don't then we are destroying and damaging the quality of life for our own personal relatives, let alone other species, plants, oceans and everything else. Seymour aims to tackle this in a methodical manner, drawing first on a deep dive into the existing and emerging literature on the parlous state that the world is in. The organisation of the chapters in the book follows a systematic approach to naming and being clear what the issues are. Then looking at and evaluating various. solutions, and the role that the individual can play too. You just wish policy at the top was also being guided by people who seemed to even care, rather than being fantasists, engaged in denial based on financial payments received. Most of the book reads well, and makes sense. At the beginning of Chapter 8, Seymour mentions the hope that one country will make 'the great transformation', but despite havin re-read this page several times we were unclear what this transformation was, or would be? Maybe we missed something, but it would have been useful, and ideally positive if it had been more clearly outlined what he was referring to. Apart from this the rest of the book is a useful addition to the growing awareness and need for a Plan B, it just needs to be up and running, and probably about ten years ago. Whether you are glass full or glass half empty, humanity is going in the wrong direction, the challenge is whether it's members wish to do something about it. Hopefully this book can help to nudge the needle. More about the book Endorsements of Saving Our World: Plan B include: "An important new method for participatory democracy, which is urgently needed as we face the enormous inter-connected challenges of our times." Emeritus Professor Peter Hawkins, Henley Business School "An interesting initiative, with a clear "theory of change" as to how to break through the current deadlock." Jonathon Porritt, Forum for the Future "A novel locally based organising tool to potentially reverse deteriorating social and environmental conditions." Colin Hines, Convenor UK Green New Deal Group "This book is a potentially ground-breaking mechanism to lay open the hearts of a people in order to steer those that would govern them by a North Star or moral compass ruled simply by the notion that action is the start of an exorcism that will create belief in the possible. Read it and believe." Sir Tim Smit, The Eden Project The Citizens' Mandate "I have known John Seymour, the author of 'Saving Our World: Plan B' for over 20 years and discussed this book with him over its 3-year gestation period. Our discussions taught me a lot about our economics and politics and particularly about how dysfunctional those systems have become. Where this book differs from others is that it not only identifies the problems that we face, and they are dire, but it also offers a potential solution. We hear politicians' promises on climate change, levelling up etc but see scant action by them. A lack of political will? John outlines a solution that starts from us and gives us a way that we can be heard, which is democratic an...

John Seymour discusses designing a distinctively Christian school environment that is also hospitable to a student population with diverse religious backgrounds.

In this episode of Dig It Peter Brown and Chris Day chat with Huw Richards. Huw's mission is simple - to help as many people as possible to grow their own food. He documents his productive garden through his hugely popular YouTube Channel. He's just published a new book with Sam Cooper, The Self-Sufficiency Garden book, which focuses on the growing and cooking side of grow your own.Plants mentioned: Apples, Asparagus, Basil, Basil Mint, Beetroot, Beans, Blackcurrants, Carrots, Comfrey and Nettle Tea, Courgettes, Garlic, Gooseberries, Garden peas, Leeks, Nasturtiums, Onions, Pea shoots, Padron Peppers, Potatoes, Runner beans, Spring Cabbage, Sweetcorn, Squash, Tomatoes and Turnips.Products mentioned: BBQs, Chickens (for eggs and manure), Firepit, Raised beds, James Wong's Grow Your Own Drugs: Easy Recipes for Natural Remedies and Beauty Treats book and Water Butts. Making Jadam Liquid Fertiliser video.Desert Island essentials: A Swiss army pocket knife and maybe practise the new art of ‘sand gardening'!Horticultural heroes: Huw's Dad has been a major influence, who was in turn influenced by the hit BBC TV comedy The Good Life, No-Dig guru Charles Dowding, John Seymour, Percy Thrower, and James Wong.Follow Huw on Instagram @huwsgardenFollow Sam Cooper on Instagram @chef.sam.blackHuw Richards YouTube ChannelHuw has written four books with DK: Veg in One Bed (2019), Grow Food For Free (2020), The Vegetable Grower's Handbook (2022) and The Self-Sufficiency Garden, written with good friend and colleague Sam Copper (2024).Our thanks to Chiltern Music Therapy for supplying the music. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

STORIES:- A Haunted Cottage in MayfairMy Personal Experiences Whilst Living There by Maude M. C. ffoulkes- The Captain's Return: A True Ghost Story of the Island of InishinnyTold to the Rev Archdeacon St. John Seymour, by Mr. T. Macfadden- Some Ghost Stories from IndiaNarrator and Producer MP Pellicerwww.MPPellicer.com a_haunted_cottage_in_mayfair_podcast.mp3File Size: 39581 kbFile Type: mp3Download File [...]

Mark Barabak, the veteran political reporter and columnist for the L.A. Times, has just helmed a six-part series analyzing the political evolutions across the New West - Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Oregon.  In this conversation, Mark talks his recent series, touches on the politics in all six of these states, and breaks down what it says about the trajectory of the region and the impact on the national landscape. He also mines his reporter's notebook to talk some of his favorite stories and personalities from 35+ years covering politics.IN THIS EPISODEMark talks how he was drawn to working in political journalism...The one state Mark hasn't covered yet...What led Mark to helm his recent series on the New West...The biggest surprise in the recent political evolution of the West...How much remains of the historical, libertarian political character of the West...How Cindy McCain has recently played an important symbolic role in Arizona politics...Mark on Governor Jared Polis and political trajectory of Colorado...Why emigration from California is not helping Republicans in the rest of the region...Mark talks the importance of Latino voters in the West...Mark's take on what it would take for Republicans to finally break through in Oregon...What Bend, OR reveals about politics in the state...How resilient is Democratic strength in the West if the party moves more to the left...How Bill Clinton muscled California into becoming a safe Democratic state...The anecdote Mark has waited 30 years to use...Mark recalls the importance of the Berman/Waxman So Cal "machine" and Northern CA's Burton "machine"...Mark's memories covering Nancy Pelosi's political career from her very first race in the 80s...Mark weighs in on the '24 California open Senate seat...The most charismatic politicians Mark has seen over the years...AND 801 Chophouse, accelerants, Joe Biden, Barbara Boxer, Harry Britt, broad libertarian streaks, Pat Brown, Ron Brown, Willie Brown, bundling, Sala Burton, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, California tattoos, criminal malpractice, Gray Davis, Michael Dukakis, election deniers, John Emerson, extractive industries, fingertip sensitivity, Diane Feinstein, Greek Lit, Kamala Harris, Peter Hart, John Hickenlooper, the hoi polloi, Mark Kelly, Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, Kari Lake, Adam Laxalt, Barbara Lee, Mel Levine, Bill Lunch, Maricopa County, Blake Masters, Leo McCarthy, Narragansett, Grover Norquist, Tip O'Neill, Mike Ovitz, Leon Panetta, Pablo Picasso, Katie Porter, RINOs, Ronald Reagan, Dick Riordan, Brian Sanderoff, Adam Schiff, John Seymour, Derek Shearer, Bob Shrum, sourdough bread, unhelpful quotes, Pete Wilson...& more!

As we prepare to celebrate Halloween, this episode is a timely exploration of the history of the supernatural in Ireland.Ghosts have long played an important role in Irish history and culture. In this podcast I am joined by Dr Clodagh Tait, a historian of the supernatural. Our conversation focuses on a specific type of ghost referred to as a crisis apparition. These usually appeared far from home, often informing an emigrant about an imminent death in their family. We discuss where these stories and beliefs came from, why they were shared and how they have survived into the 21st century!You can read Clodagh's article mentioned in the show here https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14780038.2023.2258606Voice Actor Therese Murray also narrates a traditional Irish ghost story which took pace in Philadelphia in the late 19th century. This was taken from the book True Irish Ghost Stories by St. John Seymour which is available here https://archive.org/details/trueirishghostst14099gutSound by Kate Dunlea Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/irishhistory. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Bill Carrick was the longtime chief media strategist for Senator Dianne Feinstein, as well as helping elect President Bill Clinton, multiple LA mayors, Congressman Jim Clyburn, and many more. In this conversation, Bill discusses his early political roots in South Carolina, his time working for Senator Ted Kennedy, his pivot to political media, and a deep dive on his time as chief strategist for Dianne Feinstein. We talk her early activist days in the 60s, the assassination that led to her becoming mayor of San Francisco, their first lunch meeting in 1989, how she leveraged a loss in the '90 Governor's race into 6 terms in the Senate, and her impact and legacy on priorities as varied as water policy, gun safety, choice, anti-torture policies, and more. IN THIS EPISODEBill's roots in South Carolina Democratic politics...One of Bill's favorite Fritz Hollings story...Bill's time working for Senator Ted Kennedy...The 1974 race that convinced Bill he should become a media consultant...Bill talks the early career of Dianne Feinstein on the San Francisco Board...Bill relates the story Dianne Feinstein would tell about the tragic assassination that propelled her to the Mayor's office...The first meeting of Bill with then-Mayor Feinstein before her 1990 Governor's race against Pete Wilson...The focus groups that helped ignite her statewide political career...Her '94 re-election amidst the GOP wave and against one of the first deep-pocketed self-funders...Bill relates Feinstein's views toward being on the short list of the '84 Vice Presidential process...Bill on Senator Feinstein's top passions and priorities...Feinstein's evolving views of the death penalty...Memories of her final re-election in 2018...Bill weighs in on the political legacy of Diane Feinstein...AND Aiken, the assault weapons ban, Tony Bennett, Annette Bening, The Boston Herald, Barbara Boxer, Willie Brown, George H.W. Bush, cable cars, Bill Clinton, the Commerce Committee, DACA, Gray Davis, Kevin de León, The Desert Protection Act, George Deukmejian, Jim Eastland, Dwight Eisenhower, Geraldine Ferraro, Don Fowler, Dick Gephardt, Barry Goldwater, Aaron Henry, Michael Huffington, the Inland Empire, Olin Johnston, Joshua Tree, JFK, Bob Lagomarsino, lovefests, John McCain, Leo McCarthy, Harvey Milk, Walter Mondale, George Moscone, Earl Morris, Rupert Murdoch, the NRA, Richard Nixon, Ole Miss, Prop 187, Pug Ravenel, Ronald Reagan, Dick Riley, Ed Riley, Donald Russell, Arnold Schwarzenegger, John Seymour, Strom Thurmond, Mark Twain, VAWA, John Van de Kamp, Dan White, Curtis Wilkie...& more!

The Backyard Homesteader Seasonal Planner is the first Book of the Month with Meyer Hatchery! Join Tessa and Jess as they interview the author, Ann Larkin Hansen, about her experiences, how she wrote this incredible book, and what it takes to prepare for farm expansion. The Backyard Homesteader Seasonal Planner is the perfect way to kick off 2023 on the right foot to achieve your goals this year! Order a copy today and use code BOTM23 for 20% off! Book of the Month The Backyard Homesteader Seasonal PlannerKindle Version of The Backyard Homesteader Seasonal PlannerThe Self-Sufficient Life and How to Live it by John Seymour 

Dr John Seymour is an Associate Professor at UT Health in Neurosurgery and at Rice University where his lab works on electrophysiology studies, biophysics modeling, and applying machine learning models to decoding of neural activity. A major project in our lab is focused on developing a long-term brain-machine interface for the treatment of aphasia or locked-in syndrome. ***This podcast is sponsored by Ripple Neuro, check out their Neuroscience Research Tools here*** Top 3 Takeaways: "Your job as the engineer is to create a high resolution map of a crowd's vocalization during some live event, the rules are, you only get the place, say 10 or 20 devices throughout the stadium but only on these devices. At some point you realize more and more microphones on these poles are going to generate redundant information and they won't help us in our challenge to map the vocalization of this massive stadium. People have a very good intuition for sounds and we all understand sound is directional. Neural signals act the same way." "A rough rule of thumb is if the substrate diameter is on the order of magnitude of the source size, then there is good directionality in that situation." One day neural devices will be based on the patient's anatomy and will be printed on-demand to match the patient 0:45 "Do you want to introduce yourself better than I just did?" 2:45 "Geographically, how close are Rice and UT health?" 3:15 "You're saying the future of neural implants is additive depth electrodes. What does that mean?" 13:45 Sponsorship by Ripple Neuro 14:15 "What's the solution, to try to make them directional?" 16:30 "So you basically need your collector to be as small as possible?" 18:30 "So by finding the right size of the electrode and the substrate diameter you're able to have directional electrodes?" 22:45 "What's the advantage of your technology? What does it change?" 28:00 " If you had unlimited funding, what would you be able to do with it?" 33:00 What kind of differences of electrode design would you expect patient to patient? 34:45 "These few years ago, you said you were at Rice before, exclusively, and then now moved to both UT Health and Rice. What's that been like?" 42:00"Is there anything that we didn't talk about that you wanted to mention?"  

John Seymour (Founder & CEO of Sweet Chick) delivers a one-two knockout punch: our first ever on-pod delivery of weed and grub! We spark up and chow down on perfect chicken sandwiches as John dishes about his Dad's NYC bar (“Cheers with a wink”), Harlem's fried chicken and waffles history, partnering with Nas, keeping people paid through Covid shutdowns, and growing his empire with an eye on legal weed. Plus Mike and MJ talk sports heartbreak and that one time Mike smoked with Snoop! LEAVE A REVIEW / GIVE US 5 ⭐️ / TAKE CARE OF YOUR CIRCLE Music by Jesse Case Weed + Grub IG Weed + Grub YT Sweet Chick IG John's IG High People Get Surprised by Snoop Dogg QWIN - Use code WEEDANDGRUB for 25% off! BOTW: @gretchenrobinette & @nugglord

Aidan Hartley is a writer and entrepreneur. Born in Kenya, he grew up in Africa and England and has worked as a reporter for Reuters all over the world. Aidan has also written The Spectator's Wild life column for the past 21 years. On the podcast, Aidan talks about spending his younger years on safaris in the wilderness, where mealtimes consisted of handfuls of rice cooked from metal tins on an open fire. As a reporter, he talked about reporting on famine in Somalia and why that led him to where he is now – living on a remote family farm, as a disciple of John Seymour's guide to self-sufficiency.

Aidan Hartley is a writer and entrepreneur. Born in Kenya, he grew up in Africa and England and has worked as a reporter for Reuters all over the world. Aidan has also written The Spectator's Wild life column for the past 21 years. On the podcast, Aidan talks about spending his younger years on safaris in the wilderness, where mealtimes consisted of handfuls of rice cooked from metal tins on an open fire. As a reporter, he talked about reporting on famine and civil war in Africa. And why that led him to where he is now – living on a remote family farm, as a disciple of John Seymour's guide to self-sufficiency. 

Today we are reviewing a seminal piece by John Seymour, often referred to as the father of modern self sufficiency- the now complete book of self sufficiency. Every homestead should have a copy. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/self-sufficient-hub/message

Whether it is to establish a small garden for pollinators or a large meadow or prairie to provide habitat for Bob White Quail,   seeds for native grasses wildflowers and forbs are a necessary ingredient for many conservation projects.   Our guest today, John Seymour, is the “go to guy” for these seeds and for knowledge about … Continue reading "Interview With John Seymour, President, Roundstone Native Seed" The post Interview With John Seymour, President, Roundstone Native Seed appeared first on Mark Fraley Podcast.

LINKS buymeacoffee.com/changeug The ChangeUnderground Academy No-Dig Gardening Course: https://worldorganicnews.com/changeunderground/ FREE eBook: https://worldorganicnews.com/freeebook/ email: jon@worldorganicnews.com Transcript https://worldorganicnews.com/episode261/   Bubugo Conservation Trust http://www.bubugoconservation.org/   John Seymour https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Seymour_(author) Masanobu Fukuoka https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masanobu_Fukuoka Bill Mollison https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Mollison In Grave Danger of Falling Food https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrtJbk8_GY8 Quote: https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/217513.Bill_Mollison   David MacKenzie https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2534423.Goat_Husbandry The Good Life https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_Life_(1975_TV_series) J.I. Rodale https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._I._Rodale Episode 261. Seymour, Fukuoka, Mollison and MacKenzie

Today my guest is John Seymour, the CEO and restauranteur of Lil’ Sweet Chick.He joins us from New York. Like all of us in the restaurant industry, John’s business Sweet Chick, a full-service restaurant took a hit in 2020 due to COVID.But despite dining restrictions he jumped into survival mode and transformed all five locations into a new fast casual model.We discuss that transition, hip hop, business and how they’re all connected.https://www.sweetchick.com/https://www.instagram.com/lilsweetchick/?hl=enhttps://www.instagram.com/sweetchicklife/?hl=enhttps://www.instagram.com/johnseymour_nyc/?hl=en

Growing native plants has grown in popularity over the last couple of decades. This has led to an increased demand for native plant seeds. However, many of us have never really stopped to think about how those native seeds are produced on a commercial level. In this episode, we talk with John Seymour and Robert Hoffman from Roundstone Native Seed about this and their recommendations for planting native seeds. John is the president of Roundstone and Robert is their Restoration Ecologist. Growing native plants for commercial seed production is a complicated process. At Roundstone Native Seed, the process starts with collecting the initial native seeds from the wild following the U.S. Forest Service collecting guidelines. The native seeds initially collected must then be grown first as plugs in a greenhouse, and then transplanted into larger production plots which produce the native seeds that are eventually harvested for sale. Once in the production plots, the plants must be cared for throughout the growing season and throughout future years to keep the plots producing to the best of their ability. Some of the ongoing care and maintenance may include watering, hand weeding, and conducting prescribed burns on the fields. For many of the production fields, it may take up to three years before a stand is producing seed to its fullest capacity. For many of these species, much of the harvesting and seed processing must be done by hand. Unlike many of our more traditional crops or flowers, native plants don't all go to seed at the same time. Often times the staff at Roundstone will go out to each stand every day to hand harvest just the seeds that are ready that day – taking a combine through and harvesting the whole field at once, like is done with corn or soybeans, is often not an option for native seeds. After being harvested, the seeds then have to be dried and cleaned. The cleaning process includes removing all the “fluff” and extra pieces of vegetative material. This can be up to a 17-step process for native seeds, while more traditional crops may only have a few steps in the cleaning process. And each species has different cleaning requirements and needs. Each machine also has to be thoroughly cleaned before the next species can be processed. When it comes to planting native seeds, site preparation is extremely important. The type of site preparation you need to do will depend on the current use of that land. Is it a yard, an existing garden or crop field, a pasture, etc.? The number one thing you can do for site preparation is weed control and a lack of weed control is the number one reason why native plant stands or gardens fail. The three most common forms of weed control before planting your native seeds are herbicide treatments, solarization, and repeat tillage. It often takes multiple weed control treatments over several seasons to get a site properly prepped for planting native seeds. Initial weed control is so important prior to planting native seeds because native plants tend to germinate slower and over a longer period of time than many weeds. That longer and slower germination rate can allow weeds to take over and outcompete your native seeds. The old adage for native plants is that first they sleep, then they creep, then they leap, so you really need to do everything you can to reduce the weed competition during the first year or two. The second most common reason for stand failure with native seeds is probably from planting the seeds too deep. Native seeds need a firm seed bed and often shouldn't be planted more than 1/8 to a 1/4 inch deep. It is usually better for the seeds to be on the surface than planted too deeply. Depending on your goals, the site, and your weed control process, native seeds can be planted in the dormant season (mid-November through early March) or the growing season (mid-April through late-June). Both planting times have their own pros and cons. One of the things that I really like about Roundstone Native Seed is that they care about their customers and want to help them find the right mixes for them. If you call to talk to Roundstone Native Seed, they'll often take you through what they refer to as a “seed interview.” During the seed interview, they will ask you lots of questions aimed at identifying what they believe will be the best mix to meet your specific needs, goals, and location. Their main goal is to help you have good stands and success with your native plants. Links: Roundstone Native Seeds Website Phone: 888-531-2353 Backyard Ecology's website For more information about the importance of obtaining native seeds from your ecoregion see this episode with Dwayne Estes from the Southeastern Grasslands Initiative My email: shannon@backyardecology.net Episode image: Bees on a purple coneflower Photo credit: Roundstone Native Seed

The Well Mind welcomes Dr. John Seymour to episode 13 of the podcast. 2020 is in the rearview mirror and 2021 is in front of us. I've yet to dive into the topic of family wellness and I thought that this would be a fantastic place to start in the first episode of the new year. I've known John for over 15 years. He was my advisor and mentor during my graduate studies at MSU-Mankato as I began the journey of developing my professional identity as a counselor. John is a real treasure and I'm so grateful that we have stayed in touch over the years. In our conversation we take a close look at how all the realities of the past year have impacted families and created an inflection point for families to build and cultivate resilience as we move into 2021. John shares his accumulated wisdom through rich stories, insightful reflections, meaningful questions, and thoughtful encouragements to help families move toward closeness and trust. References from Episode 13 A Promised Land by Barack Obama: https://g.co/kgs/1ACyzw Email for The Well Mind Podcast: thewellmind@blc.edu CMHC Program website: https://blc.edu/academics/cmhc/

We all do it. We look at someone else’s restaurant in awe, wondering how they got a custom shoe deal or lines out the door. When does a restaurant transcend food and beverage and become an idea? John Seymour of Sweet Chick seems to have cracked that code. Today we discuss how to build a brand, culture and community. We also discuss how those efforts translate into survival in tough times like these. To check out John’s latest initiatives go to www.sweetchick.com Sign Up for Our Weekly Newsletter: https://pineapplepost.news Book time on my personal calendar: https://bit.ly/3otQm8z Download our restaurant recovery guide: https://bit.ly/2ZAcmo0 Want to streamline your front-of-house operations and increase sales? Head over to http://restaurants.yelp.com/fullcomppodcast to claim your free page and learn more about these powerful tools for your business.

Small but discerning, choosing passion over fashion, Little Toller Books shares an independent spirit with Slightly Foxed. Jon Woolcott joins us from this publishing house based in a converted old dairy in Dorset, and charts the rise from cottage industry origins to a wide, prized backlist. With roots in rural writing, Little Toller has branched out to seek unusual voices, resurrecting the life of the wood engraver Clifford Webb, turning landfill into prose, uncovering Edward Thomas’s hidden photographs and finding a bestseller in the diary of a young naturalist along the way. We turn to the magazine’s archives for John Seymour’s advice on cheddaring, sparging and gaffing, and there’s the usual round-up of recommended reading from off the beaten track. Please find links to books, articles, and further reading listed below. The digits in brackets following each listing refer to the minute and second they are mentioned. (Episode duration: 37 minutes; 45 seconds) Books Mentioned - Four Hedges (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/four-hedges-clare-leighton/) , Claire Leighton. Available from the end of August 2020 (2:44) - Men and the Fields (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/men-and-the-fields/) , Adrian Bell (2:48) - The Unofficial Countryside (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/richard-mabey-th…cial-countryside/) , Richard Mabey (4:30) - In Pursuit of Spring (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/edward-thomas-pursuit-spring/) , Edward Thomas (4:56) - Diary of a Young Naturalist (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/dara-mcanulty-diary-of-a-young-naturalist/) , Dara McAnulty (7:27) - The Life and Art of Clifford Webb (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/simon-brett-the-life-and-art-of-clifford-webb/) , Simon Brett (12:52) - The Fat of the Land (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/john-seymour-the-fat-of-the-land/) and The New Complete Book of Self-Sufficiency (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/john-seymour-new-complete-book-of-self-sufficiency/) , John Seymour (15:23) - Landfill (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/tim-dee-landfill/) , Tim Dee (17:51) - Mr Tibbits’s Catholic School (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/ysenda-maxtone-graham-mr-tibbitss-catholic-school-plain-foxed-edition/) , Ysenda Maxtone Graham (19:35) - Stand by Me (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/wendell-berry-srand-by-me/) , Wendell Berry (30:35) - Here We Are (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/graham-swift-here-we-are/) , Graham Swift (33:13) - Anton Chekhov’s short stories (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/chekhov-fifty-two-stories/) (35:00) Related Slightly Foxed Articles - These Fragments (https://foxedquarterly.com/jon-woolcott-john-harris-no-voice-from-the-hall-literary-review/) , Jon Woolcott on John Harris, No Voice from the Hall in Issue 66 (6:34) - Cheddaring, Sparging and Gaffing (https://foxedquarterly.com/rowenda-macdonald-john-seymour-literary-review/) , Rowena Macdonald on John Seymour, The Fat of the Land and Self-Sufficiency in Issue 26 (22:50) Other Links - Little Toller Books (https://www.littletoller.co.uk/) - Blue Moose Books (https://bluemoosebooks.com/) (10:05) Opening music: Preludio from Violin Partita No.3 in E Major by Bach The Slightly Foxed Podcast is hosted by Philippa Lamb and produced by Podcastable (https://www.podcastable.co.uk/)

Esta enseñanza estará basada en el libro del "Horticultor autosuficiente" de John Seymour y en el manual de APAC MÉXICO. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/organi8c--natural/message

DEEL 4Dit is 1898 en die spanning in Transvaal word elke dag erger. Sommige Amerikaanse burgers in Transvaal, waarvan die meeste in die mynbedryf werksaam is, het anti-Paul Krugeroortuigings en is lus vir ʼn bakleiery saam met die ander “Uitlanders”. Ander is pro-Boer en werk saam met die Amerikaanse konsulaat in Pretoria om vir president Kruger ʼn mooi geskenk vir sy verjaarsdag te koop.Die Amerikaanse burgery hou gebeure in Transvaal met ʼn valkoog dop. Verskillende sprekers lewer lesings oor die Boere en die Boererepublieke regoor die VSA, maar anti-Boeraktiviste skryf vir enige belangstellende tydskrif of koerant waarom die Britse Ryk die hele Suid-Afrika moet regeer.Die Amerikaanse regering van president McKinley hoor gereeld negatiewe stories oor Transvaal deur mense soos John Seymour, ʼn prokureur van Wallstraat in New York, en John Hay die VSA se Staatsekretaris. Maar Mckinley se ware bekommernis is of die Krugerregering Amerikaanse burgers vir diens te velde sal opkommandeer. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Esta es la segunda de las dos partes que he dedicado, por petición de un compañero de trinchera y oyente de Código Emprendedor como tú, a mostrar cómo comunicar mejor utilizando la PNL o Programación Neuro-Lingüistica. Por supuesto que ni de lejos es un curso, ni siquiera una master class, por cuestión de dimensión de tiempo no puede serlo, pero lo que sí que es son claves totalmente prácticas que puedes poner en práctica sin necesidad de tener más conocimientos de PNL que los que aquí te muestro, y que además puedes comenzar a ver los resultados de forma inmediata. Esto no quita que con la práctica aprovecharás mucho más estos conocimientos y tu destreza te aportará muchísimos y mayores beneficios en lo que a comunicación se refiere. Y la verdad, entre lo que hablamos con nosotros mismos y lo que lo hacemos con los demás, nos pasamos el día comunicándonos, por lo que tienes mucho que ganar en la aplicación de estas técnicas. En la primera parte de estos dos episodios te hablé de: El Mapa y el Territorio El Metamodelo El Sistema Representacional (VAK) Las creencias   En esta segunda parte, te hablo de: Qué son y cómo utilizar las submodalidades Cómo aprovechar el poder de las metáforas Qué es y cómo sacar partido al reencuadre Cómo hacer que la fisiología esté de nuestra parte   Además, recuerda los libros que te recomendaba en el anterior episodio: Introducción a la PNL de Joseph O’Connor y John Seymour, con prefacio de John Grinder  El arte de comunicar. PNL para hacer presentaciones eficaces, de Robert Dilts El poder de la palabra, la magia del cambio de creencias a través de la conversación, de Robert Dilts  Y por supuesto que si deseas aprender más sobre cómo puedes comunicarte mejor, o bien para que tu equipo lo haga, será un gusto poder hablarlo y ver la manera de poder ayudarte de la mejor forma posible.   Compárteme tus reflexiones Me encantaría que me compartieras tus reflexiones sobre este episodio ¡juntos podemos aprender mucho más! Puedes escribirme en este link: https://www.desdelatrinchera.com/contactame/   Bájate el eBook gratis Y no lo olvides, si quieres multiplicar tus resultados, ve a desdelatrinchera.com/x100/ y descárgate gratis el ebook donde te muestro más de 100 acciones que te ayudarán a mejorar en el área profesional y personal.   Más contenidos para mejorar tus resultados Este episodio de Código Emprendedor, ha llegado a ti gracias a DesdeLaTrinchera.com, donde podrás encontrar muchas más técnicas, estrategias y trucos, para mejorar tus habilidades profesionales y llevar tu negocio mucho más lejos.  

My guest today is Andy Polaine. Andy is a service designer, consultant, educator, author, and podcaster. He's co-author of the book Service Design: From Insight to Implementation and host of the Power of Ten podcast. In this conversation, we discuss service design, and how it helps organizations think more holistically about the experiences they enable. Listen to the full conversation   Show notes Andy Polaine Andy Polaine on Twitter Andy Polaine on LinkedIn Power of Ten podcast Service Design: From Insight to Implementation by Andy Polaine, Lavrans Lovlie, and Ben Reason Adobe Director (aka Macromedia Director, or Video Works) Antirom School of the Arts & Media, University of New South Wales Ben Reason Livework Lavrans Løvlie (in Norwegian) Chris Downs on LinkedIn Fjord Powers of Ten (film) by Charles and Ray Eames The Guide to Self-sufficiency by John Seymour Service blueprint Design for the Long Term by Andy Polaine UK Government Digital Service (GDS) This is HCD network Some show notes may include Amazon affiliate links. I get a small commission for purchases made through these links. Read the full transcript Jorge: So, Andy, welcome to the show. Andy: Thanks for having me. It's pleasure to be here. It's very nice to be the other side of the mic, as they say. Jorge: Well, it's a pleasure having you here. For folks who might not know you, how do you introduce yourself? Andy's background Andy: So, my name is Andy Polaine. I am a service designer, consultant, trainer, coach, writer, and podcaster. And so, it's never really very easy. I've got one of those kinds of “hyphen” professions where I just kind of add bits to it all the time. My background is… so I actually studied film and when I did my undergraduate, I wanted to be a film director. And, initially I wanted to do visual effects actually from a very early age. And then, got interested in film and filmmaking. And when I started my degree, which was photography, film, video, and digital media, that just came in – this was early nineties, like 1990 – as I knew there was this thing called multimedia where you could… with Macromedia, or it wasn't even that, it was called Video Works, I think it was before it even became Director. And I'd always noodled about with computers; I'd had a personal computer as a younger kid, played games a lot and stuff. So, it was always kind of fascinated with interactivity. And I had those kinds of dual tracks all the way through. There was a sort of bit of competition in my head between the world of filmmaking and this new thing. And I chose this new thing, “new media,” as it was at the time, because I was kind of interested in it as a form. What does it mean to be able to interact with stuff? What are the affordances of this new thing? And so that's where I started. So, I started kind of doing interaction design before it had that name. And sort of discovering some things about interactivity, with a group called Antirom. And then, I started teaching it quite a lot and I'd always done a lot of teaching, even when I was a student, I used to of teach my peers quite a lot. And that's always been a… The secret thing about teaching is you hoover up a lot of knowledge. I think you gain more knowledge from teaching than you do give out actually. And then I was heading the School of Media Arts at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. And we were having a kind of faculty restructure, and I'd started getting interested in the idea of organizational design. And in these meetings about the restructure, the faculty – mostly designers and artists, who were the faculty – were having a meeting where they read out pages of A4 to each other, and then had long conversations and I thought, well, this is a design process. Why aren't we up at the whiteboard, you know, designing this organization? And then when I went back to the UK to visit a friend of mine, Ben Reason, in his newly minted studio of Livework, he started talking about service design. And he said, we're doing this thing called service design and I met Lavrans and Chris Downs as well and suddenly there's, “oh right! There's a whole way of thinking about this stuff.” And sort of language. And so I started kind of making the shift into that and then co- wrote the book with them, and then started teaching it. And I actually, you know what? [It was] the other way around, I started teaching it and needed the book that I wanted to teach from. So, there wasn't one, so I wrote it with them, and that's sort of been my journey. Then I went to Fjord for a while where I was, again in a kind of teaching role, as well as design director role. And I've just recently – with brilliant timing, on the 1st of March – went independent again, as a design leadership coach and also training, clients and client teams. Powers of Ten Jorge: Your podcast is called Powers of Ten, and that's named after the very famous film by Charles and Ray Eames. Why Powers of Ten? What is it about “Powers of Ten” that is so powerful? Andy: There are, there are two books that – I realized that only recently – that had seemed to have had a massive influence on me when I was a kid. My dad is an artist and was a designer too. And he had a book version of Powers of Ten that's where I first saw it. I saw, you know, a book with the frames in it. And there was another book called the Guide To Self-Sufficiency by a guy called John Seymour. Now I can talk about later and it talks about the, kind of, how to be self-sufficient, grow your own stuff, but it talks about the four seasons of the garden. And the Powers of Ten thing, just stuck with me, cause this guy actually called Andreas Elba (?) who was a friend of mine, and we were having a conversation about how to explain service design to people. Because that ability to zoom in and out and zoom out from big picture to detail and back again, and understand how they affect each other is really, really important, right? And we've really seen it recently with the coronavirus stuff, but small things can make a massive difference, particularly when they sort of aggregate up. But at the same time, a shift in policy or something can ripple – or a shift in business model ripples across all the details. And so, I'm talking about it and I had this kind of model of these different layers. And I think Andreas said, “Oh, do you know that film ‘Powers of Ten'?” And I was like, “Oh yeah, yeah, no, I love that!” And then I started using that as the way of explaining it to people. And so the thing about “Powers of Ten” is this idea of… One, it's an exponential thing, which now everyone understands, thanks to the coronavirus. But this idea of… To those that don't know, it starts with a camera above a guy on a picnic blanket, one meter above him and then 10 meters and then a hundred meters, the powers of 10 each time. So, one of the things is how quickly you're out into the universe, right? How quickly that multiplies up. And then it goes back down into the subatomic level. But the other thing is this kind of rhythm that there is, where there are moments of density: there's lots of matter, there's lots of planets, or there's lots of whatever, and then space. And as you know, good chunks of it in both the subatomic level and the kind of universe level where there's just lots of space and then suddenly there's a lot of density again. And I just found it, that sort of fractal thing where these patterns kept repeating themselves, I found it really, really fascinating, and it really stuck with me as a kind of way of thinking. I don't know if it has anything to do with my kind of film background. Maybe there's a bit of it there. You know, and when you've got like a line and a scene and kind of an act and so forth, or, maybe. But I just find it a really useful way of thinking about everything. Consulting Jorge: I'm wondering, in consulting work – because I take it from what you've been describing that most of your career has been as a consultant, in advisory roles to organizations… Andy: A mix. So, I've had… I switch in and out of kind of academic life and consulting. And so, I've had periods where I've been doing likes of 10-15% consulting every so often and doing talks and stuff and mostly teaching. And then I've had periods of the other way around. Jorge: So, these subjects, I think, fit in very nicely with what I would expect to be an academic perspective on the work, right? Where it's more introspective and you're… you were talking about this notion of zooming up and down the levels. And in my experience, folks in the business world are more focused on the nearer term, perhaps more actionable or kind of like… I've even noticed a resistance to ideas that they might consider more philosophical. Andy: Yeah. Jorge: And I'm wondering, first of all, if that somehow corresponds with your experience, and if so, how do you deal with that? Andy: It does correspond to my experience. So, service design in particular… You know, fundamentally it deals with ecosystems and services are kind of multiple touch points, they're multiple kind of channels. If you can think in terms of ecosystems and actually try and pull the parts of those ecosystems together to understand that you're actually all involved in delivering the same thing. You know, there's I think a bit in the book where we say a service is designed in silos, or created in silos, or experienced in bits. And it has a reputation, service design does, of boiling the ocean. Right? So, it's… Laddering up is a great thing, but you can very quickly get into a point… And I see it with students a lot, where it's like, “I want to do something about sustainability. And that means we have to change the use of plastics. But in order to do that, we have to change this…” And then all of a sudden, they're like, “Oh, we have to change the entirety of capitalism,” which is absolutely true. We do. But it's very, very hard to tackle it at that level. And so, I think one of the things that, in that sort of consulting world is to work out, what's the level of influence of… First, there are two things. One is, what's the level that we're actually trying to achieve, change at, and having a conversation at? Because often I think clients will state will want – or stakeholders will want – to be making change to what's essentially a structural change to the business, but sort of hoping that they can do it through some sort of customer experience mapping or something. So getting that right, getting everyone understanding that this is the level that we're tackling at, or working at, is important. And then making sure when you're having those conversations, you don't get kind of out of whack, you don't get kind of misaligned. Because I've seen, you know, plenty of times people having a really long discussion or debate or argument about some detail and yet the bigger picture thing is actually in fact the thing we need to be talking about at that time. And vice versa, right? In my head, I've got those different kinds of zoom levels and I'm trying to kind of work out where people are at and where the project is at and try and bring everyone aligned on that or move them up and down as well, you know? Jorge: Yeah. And I'm guessing that also understanding what level of role you're dealing with in the organization itself might be important, no? Andy: Yeah. Yeah. And, and that's what, I guess what I meant by that kind of, someone who's jurisdiction is quite… it doesn't have to be smaller, like it could be they're the head of customer experience or something, but if they are then in competition for budget or whatever it is with the head of marketing and the CEO has another idea and whatever, they're all essentially part of the same ecosystem if they're fighting with each other. Or they feel like, “Well, that's not my kind of role and that's not my jurisdiction.” It makes it very, very hard for them to operate. So a lot of that job is facilitating the conversations between them. And I guess a lot of my frustration is… I've come away from the idea of kind of breaking down the silos. I think silos are actually… they're often for good reasons and you need some kind of containers, but sort of bridging them or making them a bit more porous, I think is really crucial. I think that you really need to make sure that you know how you fit into the other part of whatever else is going on. Jorge: One thing that I've experienced in consulting engagements is that sometimes these design projects serve as the excuse for people in those silos to work together collaboratively, perhaps for the first time. And they become more aware of the… more tangibly aware of their differing objectives, incentives, and communication styles, perhaps. And just that knowledge is a powerful catalyst to changing the conversation, somehow. Andy: Yeah. So one of the things… this is a service design thing, but it doesn't necessarily have to be this… but one of the things in service design is a service blueprint, where you're mapping out the front stage and backstage, all the sort of bits of the enterprise that actually deliver or support the delivery of that service or that experience. And I think it's often seen as… we're going to design this thing and then we're going to fix it, you know? And blueprints are actually a kind of terrible name. Because it's, it's not really a blueprint, what it is is a map really. And in that it's often its main value is actually, for the first time, different parts of the organization, see how well their stuff fits together, you know? And it's one of those things of, our tools, you know, shape our thinking. And if you sit in PowerPoint decks and Excel sheets the whole time, you don't ever really see the connectedness between all of those different things. And so, whether it's synchronously, everyone's in the room together, asynchronicity of people coming in and out, I think that's a really kind of useful tool for that. What is service design? Jorge: Some folks listening in might not be familiar with service design. Andy: Hmm. Jorge: What is the introductory spiel? What is the “101” to service design? Andy: There's a, there's a big debate about this. So, one of the ways of thinking about it is, it's the design of all the different touch points that go into delivering a service or a customer experience, plus the kind of backstage, behind the scenes things, and that's kind of IT. Could be man-in-a-van delivery, it could be all sorts of things that go into actually delivering that service and making sure that they are coherent across different channels. So when you move between say a website and an app or call center, you're speaking the same language, talking about the same things and so forth. And also, that there are kind of seamless transitions between steps, so as people move through the journey. And so, with that, that means someone can take a journey through your service ecosystem in whichever way they like and it's always coherent. And service design is basically about doing that the way I usually explain it to kind of, you know, my mother, is this idea of… if you've ever had an experience with an organization, often with government, but often with things like telcos and insurance companies and so forth, where if you've got a problem and it feels like every time you phone up or have some kind of contact or, you know, use a touch point, it feels like you're dealing with five or six different companies instead of one. Our job is to make it feel like it's a seamless experience. Jorge: One thing that is coming to mind, hearing you describe that, is that it sounds comprehensive in nature and holistic, right? Andy: Yeah. Jorge: In that it's looking to embrace as much of the experience as possible for someone who is trying to accomplish something by interacting with either a system or organization. And that strikes me as a direction that might be in tension with another direction, which has to do with specializing more or wanting to compartmentalize design. And I'm thinking now of like professional self-identities, right? Like some people think of themselves as visual designers or, I don't know, industrial designers or, you know, in… Andy: UXers or whatever. Jorge: Right. And what strikes me here is that in all of those cases, the object of design is some kind of tangible artifact. Some are more tangible than others, but something that you can examine and point to and say, “I designed that.” Andy: Yes. Jorge: What is the object that's service design designs? I don't even know if that's a fair question. Andy: No, it's not really. I mean, it's, like I said, you're designing what you're doing is taking a zoom level up actually, or a couple of zoom levels up and trying to design, make sure that all those objects or those touch points – that can be people, incidentally, or systems – are working in cohort, that you can interact with each one and understand what's going on. That there's a kind of seamless sense to them. They feel like they're a whole. So, in some respects, what you're designing is a kind of ecosystem. But there's another bit to that also, which is the business model, right? So, you know, most service design teams have a business designer amongst them. Because they're the two halves of the same coin. If you're trying to design a service… and let's take an example where you say, “Well, we're going to change the business model from freemium to subscription.” Then the way the whole… all the touch points around that and the way you talk about that have to change, right? You know, to communicate it right. And often you'll see that a business model and the design of the different touch points in the service are slightly at odds to each other. The most… well, one of the ones I know of is a telco's name I won't mention. The call center, when you phoned the call center with a problem, they would tell you to go into the store in order to get some help. But the same company had created an app, a sort of self-help app, in order to try and get people not to go into the store. So, see you have two touch points that are kind of working against each other, with different messages, coming from the same company. Jorge: Yeah. And you talked about coherence earlier, right? Like there's this misalignment there that stepping up a level and looking at the entire – or as much of the picture as you can – exposes those points of incoherence. Andy: Yeah, and it breaks trust, right? You know, humans anthropomorphize everything, right? We give our cars names; we shout at our computers. We do it with our pets and everything else. And I'm pretty sure we're just basically hardwired to see the world narcissistically as kind of everything in the world is like another human being, right? And I think we also relate to companies like that too. And so we have these you know, things in this relationship, you go, “Oh, I thought we had this relationship and it turns out we have a different relationship,” and there's a little kind of ding in the trust there. And, and so that, that kind of happens all the time. If you imagine someone who you kind of know quite well, who you're spending a lot of time with – which is often the case with some services – and all of a sudden, they do something really out of character, you start to kind of wonder, “well, what's going on there?” And so that's, I think, what's going on when you get that destruction of trust, when those things aren't designed as a kind of coherent whole. Jorge: It feels to me that service design is kind of systemic design; it's design of the system. And perhaps calling it systemic design might lead people to assume that it really is about technology or something when it's meant that, “system” meaning in the broader sense, no? Andy: Yeah. And you know, I've been really interested in systems thinking in the last few years. I think I've always have been, but in the last couple of years, I've read more up on it and stuff. And you know, I think there's a lot of overlap there. And one of the reasons why I think there's a lot of overlap between that and say, circular economy and sustainability, is a lot of the way of thinking is around kind of ecosystems and human behavior and understanding how small changes can add up to a kind of big difference. And, do you need to kind of map out those big things, but also you also need to deal with the absolute details of how easy it is to find a recycling bin and stuff like that. All those things that are just the barriers to people changing their behavior don't have to be very high for them to not do anything at all. Projects and governance  Jorge: When thinking about design engagements, I often think of them as projects to be undertaken, especially as an independent consultant. Andy: Right. Jorge: You get called in because the organization has some kind of need, and you get brought in to help them design a solution that addresses that need, right? And one of the systemic aspects to any kind of situation that an organization might find itself in is that whatever caused it and whatever intervention you're designing is not something that is going to be fixed into a particular time. There are going to be ongoing changes happening, right? And I'm curious about the relationship between service design interventions and ongoing governance of the systems that are set up. Andy: Yeah. This is the kind of bane of agencies' lives actually. So, it's design agencies, I think because, you're absolutely right. I mean, there's lots of different parts to this. One is just a purely kind of… we talked about it before, is a sort of jurisdiction level of who is your stakeholder? Who is basically hiring you as an agency or as a consultant? And, what's likely to be their kind of budget, right? And they have a kind of certain amount of budget, and it seems to sort of pan out to be where you've got enough money for kind of three or maybe six months of work, which often means that you kind of get the discovery and the kind of ecosystem mapping and the concept of this sort of beginning of the kind of concepts done. And then basically the budget's used up of, what's probably at least a kind of two- or three-year process really. And so service design is slightly got a bad rep in that sense of being, you know, or you guys just come up with a load of kind of journey maps and blueprints and concepts, but never execute on them. And the reason why our book was actually called From Insight to Implementation is because you really need to be able to follow those things through and keep referring back. So, that is a real problem, actually. And the other bit is that jurisdictional thing, which is that person has started a process, which in fact affects the whole company or it needs to involve the whole company in order to maintain it and deliver it and so forth. And there does need to be governance there. And that governance is often set up sort of internally focused around well, you're in charge of IT, you're in charge of marketing and so forth, rather than thinking about the, how does this relate to the service and the delivery of the service? And so, who needs to be in the room, basically, having conversations about how this gets modified or changed and so on and so forth. And that is a real problem. I think there's a real problem with this idea of when again, you know, it comes back to, say, in a funding model, in an organization, the difference between funding a team versus funding a project. Projects, I think, are a natural way of people to think about things. And I'm guessing it probably comes from school. It's actually often a terrible way to think about services. I much prefer gardening and we talked about the such, I think, over email. That's why I gave this talk. I talked about that gardening book, right? And that there is no sense where you, you say, “we're done. We've shipped the garden!” Right? It's not, it's never finished. It's always changing you plant something. And some, it really does well. And then all of a sudden it does too well, because it's casting shade over all the other stuff. And then something else is withering in the corner and you either just chop it out and throw it in the compost deep or you move it somewhere else. And so, it's kind of ever going, changing thing. If you think of government services, like, I don't know, applying for a passport, or going to jail, or visiting people in jail – that's not a thing that's ever done; it's just always changing. Jorge: The idea of gardening brings up the element of time into the project, right? Andy: Yes. Jorge: And this notion that the intervention you're making now is going to have effects down the line. And in some ways, what I'm hearing you say is that ultimately the object of design might be the thing that makes the design as opposed to the intervention itself. Andy: It makes the design in what sense? Jorge: So, when you talk about funding teams versus funding a project, in some ways the project serves as a reason for a team to coalesce. But ultimately the thing that you want to do is ensure that the team is in place and that they have the resources necessary for whatever goal the thing is setting out to accomplish; to be an ongoing concern as time passes. Andy: I do think that as a… you know, if you're coming in it from a sort of consultancy/agency kind of angle to an existing organization… or an organization that isn't a design organization, like a bank or an insurance company or whatever, you only really can be successful if that company can take on some of the skills and work and become – you know, quite often, a lot of them do have internal service design or design teams internally. I don't think it's realistic for them to constantly rely on externals. I think those external consultants can bring knowledge from other spheres, which is really useful, and experience from other spheres, and see patterns where, if you've been stuck in the same organization for a long time, your field of vision narrows, and also can do some of the heavy lifting sometimes. But ultimately, and particularly for public services – it's why the GDS in the UK have been so successful, because they've really got a fantastic group of designers working on that stuff all the time and have become much more integrated into the sort of ongoing process. I don't know if I answered your question there, though. Jorge: Yeah. No, you touched on something that I was wondering as well, which is the relationship between internal design teams and people who come in from the outside. To bring it back to the Eames image… the very nature of the engagement, if you're external to the organization, you are by definition, less close to the situation, less close to the problem at hand, so to speak. And as you were pointing out, you have this broader perspective informed by projects, perhaps in a variety of different industries, even. Andy: Yeah, yeah. Jorge: So, you bring that perspective to bear on these projects and you have to work with people who are internal to the organization and, and much closer to the situation at hand. So, in some ways you have to develop this ability to very quickly move up and down those zoom levels, right? So, that's one thing that comes to mind. The other is that there are upsides to doing this kind of work that transcend the immediate project at hand, right? You might be hired to help solve for something that isn't working well or ease transitions between steps or what have you. And you might deliver on that, and that might be part of the value that you're bringing to the client, but you're also demonstrating a different way of working, right? Like one that does take in the bigger picture, perhaps.  Andy: Yeah. I think this is both a sort of beneficial thing that you bring in and is a cause of frustration too. You know we sort of talked about it a bit before, that zooming in and out lens is really useful in the sense that you're showing how… because particularly a department or a team inside a larger organization can get a little bit sort of stuck in their own bubble or their own kind of confinement, and they often get sort of learned helplessness, this, “and we would, we'd love to work that way, but we can't. Cause that's just the way things are done around here.” So sometimes that's true in which case, well then, your design problem isn't really the thing that you're trying to tackle, your design problem is the thing that's constraining around you in the organization. And you know, if you get the chance, then we have to deal with that in order to kind of make you be successful. That can be liberating because you're able to make that connection, you can create some change inside an organization. Or it can be deeply frustrating, because the answer to that is, “well, that's all very well, but we just have to fix this thing. You know, we just have to kind of deliver this thing for whoever by this impossible deadline and we don't have any chance to affect that other stuff.” And so, you are just kind of selling them a kind of a pipe dream. You know, a lot of the kind of training or coaching I've done is interestingly less around, “we're really struggling with this design problem. Can you help us?” Than it is around facing the other way, “we are struggling as a department inside our organization to kind of gain traction, to gain buy in, to… we can see that there's this thing, and we can see this connectedness, but we can't seem to kind of convince anyone else of it.” And then, you know, and so that's actually a lot of the work I do is kind of non… it's not really focused on the design object, actually. It is focused on the server ecosystem around those designers. Jorge: Again, hearkening back to “Powers of Ten,” right? Making the invisible, visible by zooming up and down the levels. Andy: Yeah, it is. And, and like I said, that can be, you know, it can be liberating and frustrating for people. And, you know, can also be a bit annoying if you're kind of… so, one of the things is when you come in as an external, it's just like any other kind of therapy or something it's much, much easier to see someone else's relationship problems from the outside than it is to see your own and your own patterns and stuff. And so, you know, the advantage of bringing someone in externally is they've got that kind of view. They can also probably say things that internal stakeholders can't say. So that's, that's kind of one of the roles I often play. But that said, it can very easily sort of come across as, you know, I can see this whole kind of picture and you guys can't. Or even if I paint it for you, then they're just going to feel frustrated that you're not just focusing on the task at hand. Closing Jorge: Well Andy, I feel like we have so much to talk about and we could keep going. I feel like I have like four or five different things that I want to ask you about, but we have to wind it down. Where can folks follow up with you? Andy: So, I have a website it's polaine.com, P O L A I N E, like my name. I'm on Twitter as @apolaine, you'll find me on LinkedIn. Those are sort of main three places and I don't really hang out on many other social media places anymore. I sort of cut down on it. Jorge: And the name of podcast is Powers of Ten, right? Andy: It's Power of Ten actually. Yeah, so I gave this talk about “design to the power of ten,” and so that was where it came from. And I didn't want to kind of too heavily steal the Eames's title. So, yeah, it's called Power of Ten it's on the, This is HCD network. Jorge: Well, fantastic. I will include links to all of those in the show notes. It's been a pleasure having you on the show Andy. Andy: Thanks very much for having me.

Vi er midt i 80´erne i romanen "Katalog over katastrofer", hvor teenagepigen Helle vokser op hos sin far. Han træner hende, så hun kan klare sig uanset hvilken katastrofe, der rammer: Brand, flystyrt, atomudslip eller krig. Farens bestræbelser på at gøre sin datter sej og stærk har den konsekvens, at hun bliver ensom og får svært ved at begå sig. Anbefalinger i denne episode: Stine Askov, Katalog over katastrofer. John Seymour, Den nye komplette håndbog i selvforsyning. Asta Olivia Nordenhof, Penge på lommen - Scandinavian Star, del 1. Vært: Anne Glad. Teknik: Kim Glad Wagner. Tilrettelægger: Mette Willumsen.

Esta es la primera de dos partes, que voy a dedicar, por petición de un compañero de trinchera y oyente de Código Emprendedor como tú, a cómo comunicar mejor utilizando la PNL o Programación Neuro-Lingüistica. No pretende ser un curso, los que yo doy al respecto duran días, y sería imposible compendiarlo en unos minutos de podcast, pero sí te traigo los puntos más importantes para que de forma totalmente práctica, puedas comenzar hoy mismo a aplicarlos y de ese modo mejorar notablemente tu comunicación. En el episodio de hoy te hablo de temas tan importantes como: El Mapa y el Territorio El Metamodelo El Sistema Representacional (VAK) Las creencias Y además te recomiendo los siguientes libros para que puedas profundizar: Introducción a la PNL de Joseph O’Connor y John Seymour, con prefacio de John Grinder  El arte de comunicar. PNL para hacer presentaciones eficaces, de Robert Dilts  El poder de la palabra, la magia del cambio de creencias a través de la conversación, de Robert Dilts  Por supuesto que si deseas aprender más sobre cómo puedes comunicarte mejor, o bien para que tu equipo lo haga, será un gusto poder hablarlo y ver la manera de poder ayudarte de la mejor forma posible.   Compárteme tus reflexiones Me encantaría que me compartieras tus reflexiones sobre este episodio ¡juntos podemos aprender mucho más! Puedes escribirme en este link: https://www.desdelatrinchera.com/contactame/   Bájate el eBook gratis Y no lo olvides, si quieres multiplicar tus resultados, ve a desdelatrinchera.com/x100/ y descárgate gratis el ebook donde te muestro más de 100 acciones que te ayudarán a mejorar en el área profesional y personal.   Más contenidos para mejorar tus resultados Este episodio de Código Emprendedor, ha llegado a ti gracias a DesdeLaTrinchera.com, donde podrás encontrar muchas más técnicas, estrategias y trucos, para mejorar tus habilidades profesionales y llevar tu negocio mucho más lejos.

LINKS Growing a No-Dig Garden on Udemy Or copy and paste this link: https://www.udemy.com/course/no-dig-garden-course/?referralCode=7393F372D1748E4A4282   World Organic News email: podcast@worldorganicnews.com Transcript: HERE   JOSEPH CAMPBELL AND THE POWER OF MYTH Ep. 1: Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth — ‘The Hero’s Adventure’ https://billmoyers.com/content/ep-1-joseph-campbell-and-the-power-of-myth-the-hero%E2%80%99s-adventure-audio/ John Seymour, in The Complete Book of Self Sufficiency Most Farmers in the Great Plains Don’t Grow Fruits and Vegetables. The Pandemic is Changing That. https://civileats.com/2020/05/12/most-farmers-in-the-great-plains-dont-grow-fruits-and-vegetables-the-pandemic-is-changing-that/ Light Farming: Restoring carbon, organic nitrogen and biodiversity to agricultural soils Christine Jones, PhD Founder, Amazing Carbon http://amazingcarbon.com/JONES-LightFarmingFINAL(2018).pdf

John Seymour, founder and CEO of restaurant brands Sweet Chic, Lil Sweet Chic and Ludlow Coffee Supply. John and I go back to elementary school, I've known John since the first grade. Follow Mike on Instagram: @MichaelChernow Follow Born or Made: @BornorMade Sign up for KreaturesofHabit.com

In this 1st episode of The Music Boost Podcast, the hosts, John Seymour & Gene Foley introduce themselves, the podcast, and interview emerging Country Artist Beamer Wigley.

John Seymour, Head of Private Equity & Mezzanine Finance at Sanlam  Investments, talk opportunities in this exciting space.   Music By: https://www.bensound.com/ Follow Us on: Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/COVERPublications/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/coverchat?lang=en Website - https://www.cover.co.za/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hugonewshound/ Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9OKIgLKoyXpMYtNYzkgnKg      

The Greatest Film You've Never Seen is a podcast where comedians Si Beckwith and Ken McGuinness chat to guests about the best, most interesting and most revered films that have passed them by.Using IMDBs 'Top 250' as a jumping off point, they ask the fascinating folk they've invited along which of these unmissable films they've missed.This episode they're joined by writer John Seymour, who also is one half of theatre company Timeworks Theatre (with the other half of the company Sarah Seymour guesting in two weeks). John discusses his choice The Lion King and is rightly met with utter incredulity that anyone could have not seen this film.The Greatest Film You've Never Seen is a Hope For Proles production. Music comes from Static Blue. Follow Hope For Proles in all the usual places. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Public Life, Private Man: Writing the Biography of Alfred Deakin The core challenge of political biography is to answer the question, ‘why politics?’. What inner need did it fulfil, and what emotional and psychological resources were mustered for its accomplishment? These questions are harder to answer for Alfred Deakin than for less complex political leaders. Deakin was a gifted orator and successful politician who was a father of federation and Australia’s most significant prime minister until the Second World War. Yet he was also a deeply private man, with an intense intellectual and spiritual life, who wondered often if politics was the right path for him. The 2019 Seymour Biography Lecture was delivered by emeritus professor and political historian Judith Brett, who will discussed the tensions and synergies between Deakin’s public and private lives. In 2017, Brett published The Enigmatic Mr Deakin, the final addition to her trilogy of books on the history of Australian Liberals. The first full-length study of Deakin in more than 50 years, The Enigmatic Mr Deakin went on to win the 2018 National Biography Award. Brett’s prior publications include Robert Menzies' Forgotten People, Australian Liberals and the Moral Middle Class: From Alfred Deakin to John Howard and this year’s From Secret Ballot to Democracy Sausage: How Australia Got Compulsory Voting. The Seymour Biography Lecture is supported by Dr John Seymour and Mrs Heather Seymour AO.

Sam and Taylor celebrate the end of summer at Loyle Carner’s ‘Chilli Con Carner’ cooking school fund-raising BBQ. This comes just days after a Sunday evening supper club feast, one that rendered Sam “unable to function”. The boys also take some time out to visit Sweet Chick, the much-famed and Nas-backed US comfort food restaurant. They sit down with founder John Seymour and, in highly predictable fashion, order too much of everything.---Sam AshtonTaylor FawcettSweet Chick LondonJohn SeymourMikey KrzyzanowskiChilli Con Carner ADHD Cooking SchoolKelly Pochyba See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

¿Alguna vez has sentido que que te falta la inspiración para dar un giro a tu vida? Ese es el tema principal del programa de esta semana, donde compartiremos los dos libros que cambiaron nuestra forma de ver la productividad.Notas de programa(Las notas del programa están disponibles en https://kenso.es/episodio/49-leer-libros)Índice del programa[0:00] Bienvenid@ a KENSO[0:34] ¿Realmente un libro puede cambiarte la vida?[2:00] Cómo leemos libros de no-ficción[10:58] El libro que cambió la vida de Jeroen[13:08] El libro que cambió la vida de Quique[15:51] Consejos para leer libros de no-ficción[19:28] ¡Hasta dentro de muy pronto!Recursos mencionadosLibro: Como leer un libro / How to read a book de Mortimer AdlerArtículo: Introducción a los mapas mentalesLibro: Organízate con eficacia de David AllenLibro: Los 7 hábitos de la gente altamente efectiva de Stephen CoveyLibro: El ejecutivo eficaz de Peter DruckerLibro: The productivity project de Chris BaileyPersona: José Miguel BolivarPersona: Berto PenaPersona: Giuseppe MeliMétodo: Programación Neurolingüística (PNL)Libro: Introducción a la PNL de John Seymour y Joseph O’ConnorLibro: Cuanta tierra necesita un hombre de León TolstoiComparte tus sugerencias¿Qué te gustaría escuchar en futuros episodios del podcast?Déjanos tus sugerencias de personas a entrevistar o temas a tratar en los comentarios de las notas del programa.

On this episode of The Paul Rivera Podcast, PR sits down with Brooklyn entrepreneur John Seymour to talk about his creation of the famed chicken and waffle spot Sweet Chick, his friendship and eventual business partnership with legendary rapper Nas, and how he credits Google with basically everything he knowns. 

LINKS email: redocean112@gmail.com PODCASTING CHECKLISTS CLICK HERE Transcript HERE Facebook Page:  World Organic News Facebook page. WORLD ORGANIC NEWS No Dig Gardening Book: Click here Permaculture Plus http://permacultureplus.com.au/ Topical Talks Hunter-gathering seems to have been easier than farming https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/05/adopting-agriculture-means-less-leisure-time-for-women/?amp=1   Which countries spend the most on food? This map will show you https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/12/this-map-shows-how-much-each-country-spends-on-food/   John Seymour   Organic food is booming, but it’s grinding field laborers into the dirt https://www.salon.com/2019/05/25/organic-food-is-booming-but-its-grinding-field-laborers-into-the-dirt_partner/  

LINKS PODCASTING CHECKLISTS CLICK HERE Transcript HERE Facebook Page:  World Organic News Facebook page. WORLD ORGANIC NEWS No Dig Gardening Book: Click here Permaculture Plus http://permacultureplus.com.au/ Topical Talks Cows are getting a bad rap and it's time to set the record straight: Giving up meat won't save the planet https://www.businessinsider.com/giving-up-meat-wont-save-planet-2018-10/?fbclid=IwAR1dsMaobbUxw4HUWyubcdshaxUihjEMX1tQ19X-LEyTBwZLQbSJLi7RJsQ%3Futm_source%3Dtwitter&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=topbar&utm_term=mobile&referrer=twitter&_ga=2.35603937.1500839690.1550597502-857567176.1550597502&r=AU&IR=T   The future of farming in the era of climate change https://amp.abc.net.au/article/10852926   John Seymour’s Complete Book of Self Sufficiency Prickly Pear

"You might catch me at Roscoe's at 4 AM," he says, "but what we do at Sweet Chick is different." Enjoy the episode and please be sure to rate, comment and subscribe to our channel, as well as Sound Check and Business of HYPE. Peace!

Internetssss! This week on The Premium Pete Show, Pete is joined by Restauranteur John Seymour! John discusses the creation of Sweet Chick Restaurants and the opening of their 5th Location. The Up's and Down's of the Business. How Nas Became His Partner and so much more. Be sure to rate, subscribe, and tell a friend to tell a friend.

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In this weeks episode I tell you all about my favorite homesteading book "The Self Sufficient Life and How To Live It" by John Seymour. This book is really all you need to get started. As you travel the path of more and more self reliance you can get more books to add to your collection but this is the first one I would get. It can be found at Amazon for around $20. I hope you have found this episode useful. Please come visit us at www.havenhomestead.comDon't forget to head on over to www.happyleafled.com and check out all the great products Happy Leaf has for those who want to grow veggies year around at home! Thanks for Listening!

In this weeks episode I tell you all about my favorite homesteading book "The Self Sufficient Life and How To Live It" by John Seymour. This book is really all you need to get started. As you travel the path of more and more self reliance you can get more books to add to your collection but this is the first one I would get. It can be found at Amazon for around $20. I hope you have found this episode useful. Please come visit us at www.havenhomestead.comDon't forget to head on over to www.happyleafled.com and check out all the great products Happy Leaf has for those who want to grow veggies year around at home! Thanks for Listening!

� Links   Pastured Pork Pros and Cons http://wp.me/p5Cqpo-f4y   The Top 5 Things I Have Learned Since I’ve Started Homesteading http://wp.me/p5Cqpo-f6X   ****   This is the World Organic News for the week ending 15th of May 2017. Jon Moore reporting!   We begin this week with a post from the blog The Intrepid Homestead entitled: Pastured Pork Pros and Cons.   A whole new skill set is required for pastured anything. Pigs being pigs and innately intelligent bring their own issues.   The right breed is essential. Thankfully there were far sighted people who didn’t follow the Danish landrace highway to factory farmed pork. No these people kept alive the old breeds, not all of them but enough for pastured pork to be a thing. The old breeds like Gloucester Old Spot, Wessex Saddleback, Berkshire and Tamworth.   Three of the pros discussed are as follows: Quote: Your pigs will taste better than the average pig (assuming you feed them good food). Remember, you are what you eat and you are what you eat eats! They’ll clear your land of more or less all vegetation minus large trees. They’ll fertilize your land and any land downstream from your land End Quote   Taste in meat is personal thing. The point is all pigs were one raised on “mast” which I believe is counted in the Domesday Book. Mast refers to things like acorns, beechnuts, hazelnuts and so on. It is possible to raise pigs on these resources now if you have them or access to them. Back in episode 22 the interview episode, Llew from the North Island of New Zealand told us about her pigs and how they were supposed to clean up the Macadamia windfalls. Unfortunately her pigs were standing on their hind legs to eat the low hanging nuts straight from the tree. Pigs are useful, all useful things have their limits.   John Seymour, of The Complete Book of Self Sufficiency fame recommended pigs as having a plough at the front end and manure spreader at the back. To his  mind they were for cleaning land as well as fertilising. So putting them in after your potato harvest and they will clear any you missed. They’ll turn old pasture into a ploughed field as near as ready for sowing as you could ask.   There is also an established if small market for this type of pork which is good and means you shouldn’t have to eat nothing but pork three meals a day. There is, therefore much to recommend pigs of pasture.   Now to the cons.   Longish Quote: If you raise pigs in a field, forest, meadow, or pasture, that is where they’ll most likely be when you go to round them up for slaughter. This is NOT an easy task in many cases. Many YouTubers, movies, and bloggers have idyllic photos and videos of homesteaders and farmers frolicking with their pigs. That may be true for about 5 minutes, or on days when you and they have nowhere special to be. As soon as you roll up with a trailer and they see you salivating at the thought of eating them as ham and bacon – you’ll soon find out how belligerent a pig can be! A pig is a like an impetuous 300lb bodybuilding two-year-old. Catching them requires work and ingenuity. It might also take some nerves. A caught pig makes a lot of unsettling noise. If you have to deliver a live animal to the butcher, it’s going to take some effort. On average, it takes us 70 minutes per pig to gather and place in a trailer. Oh, and that is for 4-5 strong and fit men. End Quote   There are any number of stories from the Middle Ages of Royalty and Nobility being killed off early in boar hunts. Now a domesticated pig is not a wild boar but the point is well made. 300 pounds, or 140 kgs of annoyed pig can make quite a difficult proposition but others can do it so I guess we all can, if we want.   To quote again: All in all, raising pigs has been a great experience – one that we intend to keep doing. However, it’s not without its challenges and knowing these beforehand can be helpful. End Quote   And now from Little Redhead Homestead comes the post: The Top 5 Things I Have Learned Since I’ve Started Homesteading   Let’s get into them   1  It does NOT look like it does in the movies!! 2  All hands on deck! 3 Things really don’t go as planned 4 You will wake up sometimes and wonder what the point is. 5  It’s a slow process   I just have to quote from #1 It does NOT look like it does in the movies!!   Quote: ..the ugly truth of homesteading isn’t meant for the movies. It can be beautiful and fun and romantic and whatever else you fantasize about, but there is another side to every coin and it involves poop, blood, death, cold, heat, splinters, animal bites and scratches, loose animals, plant diseases, smells, rain, wind that blows your sheet off your clothesline and smothers nearby seedlings (it’s happened!), aphids, rabbits eating half the strawberry patch you’ve waited all winter for (happened last week), being too sick to feed yourself, but still having to go out and feed animals. I could go on, but you get the picture! End Quote   Naturally, the real world has little to do with tinsel town but the just quoted words sums up life in more of its red in tooth and claw reality than a comfortable city life can ever be. Don’t forget the start of that quote: beautiful, fun and romantic. In my experience these are just magnified because of their juxtaposition with the other things going on.   All of that being so I can understand point #4 You will wake up sometimes and wonder what the point is.   Quote When you were up all night with sick kids, you’re pregnant, you’re hungry and you’re too cold to get out of bed, you are going to start thinking of reasons to quit and be normal. After all, it’s not like you can vent to many people about how hard it is. It’s not something many seem to empathize with these days. Just try to remember that it’s all worth the trouble and that being normal is for schmucks!! End Quote.   And there is one thing in this life of which I am certain: Anyone who listens to this podcast is definitely not a Schmuck!   And on that happy thought we will end this week’s episode.   If you’ve liked what you heard, please tell everyone you know any way you can! I’d also really appreciate a review on iTunes. This may or may not help others to find us but it gives this podcaster an enormous thrill! Thanks in advance!   Any suggestions, feedback or criticisms of the podcast or blog are most welcome. email me at podcast@worldorganicnews.com.   Thank you for listening and I'll be back in a week.   **** Links   Pastured Pork Pros and Cons http://wp.me/p5Cqpo-f4y   The Top 5 Things I Have Learned Since I’ve Started Homesteading http://wp.me/p5Cqpo-f6X

LINKS Humus and Clay... http://wp.me/p5Cqpo-eAT John Seymour Masanobu Fukuoka Daikon radish Start your own Organic Garden: 7 tips! http://wp.me/p5Cqpo-eB5 Sustainability Through Compost Tea. http://wp.me/p5Cqpo-eDW Ten Acres Enough **** This is the World Organic News for the week ending 10th of April 2017. Jon Moore reporting! This week we focus on the soil! From the blog of LaToya M. Crick Soil Food Web Consultant comes a post on humus and clay. Quote: Clay and humus play an important role in soil structure and plant growth, however, too much of one of them is frustrating and too little of the other is a pending death sentence. What is clay? Clay in soil is a fine-grained natural rock or soil material and appears in deposits due to weatherization. ( If you are living in Brazoria County, Texas then you are living on a deposit- ha!) Clay can appear in soil in various colors from white to dull grey or brown to deep orange-red. A clay particle is finer than silt and sand and according to geologist and soil scientist,  a clay particle is less than 2 micrometer. And from further in the post: Now, what about Humus? Humus is the end product of decomposed organic matter that was had by soil microbes. It can be seen as the chocolate/black gold of the earth and acts as an anchor for soil nutrients. It appears in color ranging from dark brown to black and smells earthy and is fluffy to the touch. Humus is negatively charged and has a high cation-exchange-capacity (CEC) that helps the soil retain water and positively charged elements that are beneficial to plant health. End Quote The funny thing about clay and all soils for that matter is a thing I learned from John Seymour. It your clay content is too high, add organic matter to your soil. Organic matter, it turns out feeds and creates humus. At the other end of the soil scale: sandy soil the solution is to add (pauses for effect) organic matter which it turns out feeds and creates humus. You can see where this is heading. Clay soils have their own particular needs when it comes to incorporating organic matter. The drill in the olden days, the 1970s, was to dig deeply and bury organic matter. Can you guess what the solution is today? Yep, raised bed no-dig gardens. It turns out the soil is capable of pulling the organic matter down into the clay soils and invigorating them.  Clay pans can be a problem. That is hardened clay layers under the level at which the shovel or the plough reached. On acreage sized land units, a ripper can be employed to shatter the pan. This lets water and organic matter into the soil profile. This is especially beneficial when the rips are along the contour lines of the paddock. Masanobu Fukuoka used an alternative method the release these clay pans. He broadcast daikon radish seeds. His compacted clay problem was in an orchard so that ripping was not an option. These radishes grow upto a metre in length and as thick as a man’s forearm. By their very growth habits they loosen compacted soils. Once loosen and with organic matter spread on top, either in no-dog garden beds or spread across paddocks by slashing them or grazing them, the process of humus creation can occur. Clearly this is not a “quick fix” solution but it is one which works with Nature and her rhythms. When that occurs we are moving in the right direction. I might also add here that artificial fertilisers will destroy humic acid in very little time. This means more are needed in the next growing season and so on. The slower Natural way is less expensive too as a rule. Having sorted your soils the next step is to garden. DR. EDDY BETTERMANN MD delivered a post: Start your own Organic Garden: 7 tips! These are useful and so I’ll repeat them here to pique your interest. Have a read of the article if you need more on this. Link is, of course, in the show notes. Plan your garden before planting your crops, it’ll help you reap the best harvest possible. Less is More It may seem like a good idea to plant every edible plant that you love to eat… but it may be better to start with a small, manageable garden in the beginning. Choose Productive Plants Choose plants that grow well in your climate and geography. Think locally. Share and Barter If you buy a large packet of seeds and have extras, share with your friends and neighbors. Go Organic With Your supplies Organic seeds can be bought locally or by mail order. Do not use chemical pesticides, herbicides, or any other synthetic chemicals. Complement Your Plants Research traditional methods of natural gardening to grow plants that complement one another such as permaculture. Have Fun! Gardening can be an incredibly grounding family affair. Having your garden up and running, the question of feeding or fertilising comes to mind. The blog Permie Flix has a video post this week entitled: ECOSOIL SUSTAINABLE FARMING WITH COMPOST TEA. If that title doesn’t tick all the boxes then I don’t know what will. The video runs for some 30 plus minutes and is well worth your time. Compost teas are a specialised form of liquid fertiliser. The have their adherents and I too am one of them. A particularly interesting book: Ten Acres Enough set in the USA state of New Jersey and written in the 1870s gives a good account of how to make and use liquid fertilisers. I’ve included a link to a pdf copy of this book. Whilst it has financial figures from its time which are basically meaningless now, the how to information is useful. A word of caution, the author advocates for ploughing bare fields between produce crops to increase soil moisture. Apart from that, he makes good sense. Back to the post ECOSOIL SUSTAINABLE FARMING WITH COMPOST TEA. This video is produced with a smallholder, farmer in mind but the principles and techniques can be down scaled to the garden or you could join with fellow gardeners to create larger volumes to use amongst yourselves. I suspect a community garden would also be a good place to centrally produce these teas in bulk. They feed the humus creation process at a good rate of knots. Nudging Nature without pushing her to breaking point. So look after your soil, grow food in it and feed that soil with liquid fertilisers for a blooming good garden! And that brings us to the end of this week’s podcast. If you’ve liked what you heard, please tell everyone you know any way you can! I’d also really appreciate a review on iTunes. This may or may not help others to find us but it gives this podcaster an enormous thrill! Thanks in advance! Any suggestions, feedback or criticisms of the podcast or blog are most welcome. email me at podcast@worldorganicnews.com. Thank you for listening and I'll be back in a week. **** LINKS Humus and Clay... http://wp.me/p5Cqpo-eAT John Seymour Masanobu Fukuoka Daikon radish Start your own Organic Garden: 7 tips! http://wp.me/p5Cqpo-eB5 Sustainability Through Compost Tea. http://wp.me/p5Cqpo-eDW Ten Acres Enough

2016 12 31   This the World Organic News yearly roundup episode. And what a year its been! I’ve identified four broad themes to 2016. Let’s get into them   Firstly, Cities. Perhaps the most unlikely place to find farming but here it is. Rooftop, vertical, empty lot and balcony/terrace farming/gardening as well as the suburban homesteader all featured this year in the blog and on the podcast.   Small areas, intensively planted and thoughtfully custodianed can produce huge amounts of food. That people are doing this is a sign of our longing for real food. That people are doing it in cities is a sign the long, fossil fueled based, supply lines may not be as safe as we are led to believe. It is also a sign people are looking for flavour. An heirloom variety of tomatoes that grows well in container on a balcony will never be capable of bulk transportation across 1000s of kilometres. It will however have flavour to balance its inability to travel.   On a more industrial scale, the Japanese plan to open a fully automated vertical farm harvesting, initially, 1000s of lettuce a day before diversifying into other leafy vegetables. As I’ve stated elsewhere, peopleless farming doesn’t sit right with me but it is an option during famines, disaster relief and so on when the need to feed people is greater than the need for human interactions with food. I just realised that argument can be extended to feeding people at anytime yet peopleless farming still doesn’t sit right with me.   The urban/suburban homesteading movement continues apace as more individuals and families see the benefits of growing their own. The homesteading side of this movement usually involves some sort of animals to add to the mix. This allows manure collection and increased soil health and productivity. I’ve seen people growing rabbits on this scale but the usual and animal is the chicken! The good thing about chooks is they will give you manure and an egg a day whether you have a rooster or not. With a rooster comes the joys of breeding but in some council areas roosters also bring noise complaints. And remember kids, chickens are the gateway stock to larger animals! It is a very small step from hens to backyard goat!   The second theme for 2016 is biotech! This year has seen Washington State sue Monsanto for residues in the environment and the Australian High Court reject an appeal from Steve Marsh against a contamination of his land by a neighbour’s GMO canola pollen. Mixed messages! Burkina Faso has dumped BT Cotton and returned to standard types. Still chemically grown but a step in the right direction. To add to this small step against Monsanto, the World Health Organization declared Monsanto’s flagship pesticide Roundup a probable carcinogen. Probable is one step down from carcinogenic. The reason why Roundup only received a probable rating is a lack of evidence. The WHO will continue to collect data and review its rating of Roundup as it does for all the declared probable carcinogens.   Perhaps more troubling is merger between Bayer and Monsanto. Two enormous biotech, chemical and seed producers merging into a huge corporation. Could they use this market power for good or does that word not enter into the economic considerations? The point of corporations is simply profit. Sad but true. Individuals in positions of power within corporations may consider things other than profit but people come and people go. The corporation or one very much like it will continue to live for nothing but profit. So it augers not well for the biosphere from this merger. We will have more to say on this in 2017, I’m sure.   As many of us have noted and the BBC statistical radio show “More or Less” proved, 2016 was a year of high profile deaths. The one which impacted the organic movement most strongly was, off course, the passing of Bill Mollison. Bill’s passing marked the loss of the last of the triumvirate who influenced my path into and through the organic movement. The other two being John Seymour and Masanobu Fukuoka. So a particularly deep loss not just me but for many. What can I say that has not already been said? This world is a lesser place without Bill. Yet his work lives on. I have yet to find a country, even war torn one, without permaculture. The genius of Mollison’s and Holmgren’s work is the universality of the method. Across climate zones from Desert to Jungle Permaculture both has a place and is being implemented as I speak. Truly a legacy we will only truly understand with passing of time.   Despite or, if you are of that persuasion, because of, the political changes in 2016,  World Organic News still believes there is room for hope in this world. We have the tools to feed the world. Feed the world healthy food which not only does not damage the biosphere but actually heals it. We have a rising number of young farmers across the developed world for the first time in generations and they are overwhelming organic practitioners. Do we see the start of a truly grassroots movement? World Organic News hopes so.   On another positive note, the positive outcomes from Paris COP20 in 2015 to Morocco COP21 there is a path forward on climate change. Even if we weren’t facing the challenges of climate change, a move to fossil fuel free economies would still make sense. The pollution from the fossil fuel industry will take centuries to remediate and that time is continuously being pushed back as we cling to this dirty fuel.   Perovskite solar cells continue to set new efficiency records, silicon solar cells are now the cheapest form of energy production. Despite the politically based claims against climate change one thing and one thing alone will drive both believers and skeptics and that is price. As economies of scale continue to kick in this price difference will only increase. Once this gains momentum the subsidies paid to fossil fuel producers will come under increasingly strong pressure. The question before us is one of timing. Can we make the transition in time?   There is also something we can all do. The organisation Kiss the Ground (https://www.kisstheground.com/) has a great series of videos explaining how, since about World War Two, carbon has been liberated from the soil and dispersed to the atmosphere. More importantly the videos explain how to move the carbon back to the soil.   And this is what organic methods can and will do! Surely this is hope enough to take us into 2017 with heads held high, ready to face the effects of our species’ actions and to do something about it!   I’ll be back on the 9th of January 2017 with a return to the weekly roundup of news, ideas and methods from the Organic World!   I am contractually required to mention that I have new microphone and hopefully the sound quality has improved. Let me know if you think it has improved.   If you’ve liked what you heard, please tell everyone you know any way you can! I’d also really appreciate a review on iTunes. This helps others to find us. Thanks in advance!   Any suggestions, feedback or criticisms of the podcast or blog are most welcome. email me at podcast@worldorganicnews.com.   Thank you for listening and I'll be back in a week.

On the second episode, MAG and Trammell expound on the eternal greatness of Julia Louis-Dreyfuss, the rise and fall of Lupe Fiasco, and invite restaurateur John Seymour to reveal the true origins of chicken n’ waffles.

A supplemental episode finishing our walk through John Seymour's Complete Book of Self Sufficiency.

This week we look into the practice of aquaponics before wandering through the Food from the Wild section of The Complete Book of Self Sufficiency by John Seymour.

This week we look at Sterling College, Vermont, The effects of small purchase decisions, Indian farmers' suicides and the fruit from The Complete Book of Self Sufficiency by John Seymour

Getting ready for Spring in the Northern Hemisphere, seed starting, keyhole garden beds. John Seymour's food for animals covers pigs, rabbits, poultry and bees.

This week we dive into living with less stuff, mincome support and some thoughts on the coming changes within the IT revolution. We then continue our travels through The Complete Book of Self Sufficiency by John Seymour.

Weekly podcast from World Organic News. This week we discuss compost, vermicompost, camel poo and bees. We begin a look at the life and work of John Seymour

To help celebrate the release of Stringer's debut EP "Dead Ass,"  we sat down with Max Kagan, Mark Fletcher, and drummer John Seymour to talk about the band, their decision to change the name from Heeney, and the good and bad of Brooklyn's music scene.   On this podcast:Striinger - "Dead Ass" EP"Dirty Room""Wanting Less""Fear of Death""Just Like You""Luxury""Fear of Death"andHuffers - "Pulled Pork"Lidia Stone - "Sick Of Words" (live)    

Materials Available here: https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2023/DEF%20CON%2023%20presentations/DEFCON-23-John-Seymour-Quantum-Classification-of-Malware-UPDATED.pdf Whitepaper here: https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2023/DEF%20CON%2023%20presentations/DEFCON-23-John-Seymour-Quantum-Classification-of-Malware-WP-UPDATED.pdf "Quantum" Classification of Malware John Seymour Ph.D. student, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Quantum computation has recently become an important area for security research, with its applications to factoring large numbers and secure communication. In practice, only one company (D-Wave) has claimed to create a quantum computer which can solve relatively hard problems, and that claim has been met with much skepticism. Regardless of whether it is using quantum effects for computation or not, the D-Wave architecture cannot run the standard quantum algorithms, such as Grover’s and Shor’s. The D-Wave architecture is instead purported to be useful for machine learning and for heuristically solving NP-Complete problems. We'll show why the D-Wave and the machine learning problem for malware classification seem especially suited for each other. We also explain how to translate the classification problem for malicious executables into an optimization problem which a D-Wave machine can solve. Specifically, using a 512-qubit D-Wave Two processor, we show that a minimalist malware classifier, with cross-validation accuracy comparable to standard machine learning algorithms, can be created. However, even such a minimalist classifier incurs a surprising level of overhead. John Seymour is a Ph.D. student at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, where he performs research at the intersection of machine learning and information security. He's mostly interested in avoiding and helping others avoid some of the major pitfalls in machine learning, especially in dataset preparation (seriously, do people still use malware datasets from 1998?) In 2014, he completed his Master’s thesis on the subject of quantum computation applied to malware analysis. He currently works at CyberPoint International, a company which performs network and host-based machine learning, located in Baltimore, MD.

In this edition of The Career 100 Podcast, Felicia Gopaul interviews John “John the Math Guy” Seymour, who will be sharing his story, and advice to aspiring young Mathematicians, particularly Applied Mathematicians. Learn more about this career and why this is on the list of the Top 100. John Seymour is an applied mathematician and Color scientist. He has earned …

On this episode of Battling And Beating Cancer we discuss maintenance therapy for lymphomas.  The availability of important new therapies with minimal side effects over the past several years has provided patients and their physicians with more options.  But how effective is maintenance therapy and does it limit your options down the road?  Weighing the potential benefits and risks of maintenance therapy is not always easy.  Dr. John Seymour, Head of the Department of Haematology at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, joins Scott and Charlene to discuss maintenance therapy for lymphomas. Dr. Seymour recently received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.Chicago Blood Cancer Foundation and Lymphoma Coalition have joined forces to bring you this important episode of Battling And Beating Cancer.

On this episode of Battling And Beating Cancer we discuss maintenance therapy for lymphomas.  The availability of important new therapies with minimal side effects over the past several years has provided patients and their physicians with more options.  But how effective is maintenance therapy and does it limit your options down the road?  Weighing the potential benefits and risks of maintenance therapy is not always easy.  Dr. John Seymour, Head of the Department of Haematology at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, joins Scott and Charlene to discuss maintenance therapy for lymphomas. Dr. Seymour recently received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.Chicago Blood Cancer Foundation and Lymphoma Coalition have joined forces to bring you this important episode of Battling And Beating Cancer.