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The year is 2020, the place is California, where our budget woes have increased, our schools have gotten worse, and like the rest of the country, we are all operating under deficit. Social services have been chopped, traditional jobs are slim. It's time to find, borrow, lend and make for ourselves, time to alter our thinking when it comes to how we meet our goals.



The town I live in is situated in a pocket of idealistic sprawl. Technically we are rural, but we have a… Continue

Temple Grandin is an amazing woman. She is Autistic. She holds a PhD. She thinks in pictures. Growing up she had extreme Autistic tendencies and had a hard time communicating and learning in traditional learning environments. She has learned and grown into an amazing woman, creating a place for herself in fields dominated by men. She uses what are, to her,intuitive thought processes, but to others are methods absolutely unheard of. One of the things she has done is to design ethical, humane and… Continue

There is a lot of great advice in that post! The thing that stuck out for me is a combo of two points. Essentially, when trying to solve a specific problem, you need to find out what the people there - the folks who live with the problem everyday - have to say. They may have suggestions as to how to go about implementing your plan at the local level that you never dreamed of. They may also be aware of limitations you hadn't thought of just looking in from the outside. Once you have your… Continue