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		<title>Unhelpful self-help advice</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:56:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is it about some self-help advice that is so galling? Isn&#8217;t there fall-out from trying to live as if your calling or purpose can be put on the back of an envelope, or distilled down to specific achievements? More time-honoured mantras give at least a nod to complexity, mystery, human experience, the human condition, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=callingbird.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6687042&amp;post=67&amp;subd=callingbird&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Free book, good on living with complexity</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 12:57:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Bird</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A free, short and friendly book, available online: Getting Real. Practical ways of dealing with complexity and being realistic. Of general interest, even though it sets out to talk about lean software development. Same mentality as Joshua Cooper Ramo on international affairs, and even Rowan Williams on faith. All, in their way, are into openness/ability [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=callingbird.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6687042&amp;post=60&amp;subd=callingbird&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Keeping a skull on the desk (pessimism at work)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 23:28:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Bird</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ManagementToday.com reports Alain de Botton, speaking on work-attitudes in one of his School of Life sermons. Right-thinking people at work will think about their mortality, to focus the mind on what&#8217;s really important, more than they will on self-help/self-actualisation and other pipe-dreams &#8211; hence the skull on the desk punchline. The pessimism that AB recommends [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=callingbird.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6687042&amp;post=54&amp;subd=callingbird&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Any tips on getting over sports injuries?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:41:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Bird</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I remember skim-reading Ranulf Fiennes&#8217;s recommendations for running for long-term fitness. Judo, he said, was more likely to leave you with knee or shoulder injuries than steady plodding. Humph. Running was too bitter a pill for me to swallow. It never gets any easier. Scottish winters. Eighteen months later and I&#8217;m laid up with corococlavicular [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=callingbird.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6687042&amp;post=49&amp;subd=callingbird&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to deal with the Monday feeling (on Wednesday)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 13:39:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Productivity blog, Stepcase Lifehack, returns to a favourite GTD theme of desk/desktop tidying and pre-preparing most important tasks as a way of getting some momentum into work and activity. Not sure whether these things should really be at the heart of wellbeing at work, but little routines/rituals seem to have an enduring appeal. How do [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=callingbird.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6687042&amp;post=44&amp;subd=callingbird&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Google and Willow Creek</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2009 23:46:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Bird</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tory links with Google and Silicon Valley (Fraser Nelson in The Spectator) has a ring of UK churches eying transatlantic megachurch models and videolinking leadership conferences. Not necessarily all bad: Facts on the ground when it comes to where people now draw lines to preserve/protect their family-life (&#8216;work/life balance&#8217; doesn&#8217;t do it justice) Flattening hierarchies [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=callingbird.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6687042&amp;post=37&amp;subd=callingbird&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>White-collar pyjamas</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2009 10:23:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Bird</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In The Pyjama Game, Mark Law points out that judo&#8217;s always been a magnet for white-collar players. The William Hague effect. The question is, is that because we like the undercurrents of etiquette, club-life and technique (he sites the former players that are in their element playing golf)? Or is it that we fancy a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=callingbird.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6687042&amp;post=30&amp;subd=callingbird&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mad Men 1–3</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 08:48:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Bird</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most heart-sinking Mad Men Series 2 office-scapegoating pieces so far: Peggy puts up no preemptive fight and ends up with Joan&#8217;s photocopier in her office. Kinsey gets told off by Joan for trying to pretend he&#8217;s interesting. Don shuts out grieving Pete and won&#8217;t do father-figure because of account crisis. Don rounds on his (slightly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=callingbird.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6687042&amp;post=23&amp;subd=callingbird&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ken Costa on God at Work</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:14:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Bird</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of St Paul&#8217;s Theological Centre&#8217;s more recent Godpods has Ken Costa talking about decompartmentalising &#8216;work&#8217; and &#8216;life&#8217;. Thinking about purpose and motivation in terms of (much) wider systems, rather than individualism. Looking at work-concepts (&#8216;corporations&#8217;, &#8216;partnerships&#8217;) and their root in a dynamic view of creation. Resisting the sense of being morally cornered or hamstrung [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=callingbird.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6687042&amp;post=18&amp;subd=callingbird&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Archbishop, Dostoevsky and speaking plainly</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2009 15:29:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Bird</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unless I&#8217;m way off the mark, Rowan Williams, in the middle of his latest book, suggests that trying to say what you think is a good thing. And trying not to is &#8216;diabolical&#8217;. &#8216;It is possible to read Karamazov as narrating the processes by which each of the brothers emerges into &#8220;visibility&#8221;; each puts at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=callingbird.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6687042&amp;post=1&amp;subd=callingbird&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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