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Peter Newton 1973 The Work Group Within the Organization - excerpts
Peter M. Newton and Daniel J. Levinson Department of Psychiatry, Yale University Medical School PSYCHIATRY, Vol. 36, May 1973, pp. 115-142. Citation: Newton, P. M., & Levinson, D. J. (1973). The work group within the organization: A sociopsychological [...]

2021-08-25 Beth Sawin on slowing down
Dr. Elizabeth Sawin (@bethsawin): What if that longing of yours to slow down isn't only your personal exhaustion but also your contribution to collective wisdom and a deep knowing about what's needed in this moment? Donella Meadows said it pretty [...]

worrying about AI
2024-10-14: /- when human intelligence is reduced to machine intelligence, or vice-versa, then perhaps there will be worries for all of us / /- one current musing: whatever is happening inside an AI or LLM system that we are referring to as [...]

2025-10-02 Paris Review notes
some excerpts and notes from The Paris Review, Fall 2025 page 71: (responding to critics who suspect that what he writes is not strictly factual) > ... I did include a bibliography in _An Elemental Thing_, to show that everything in my essays comes [...]

Bruno Schulz - The Book
Schulz, Bruno (1998). _The Book_. In J. Ficowski (Ed.), _Sanatorium under the Sign of the Hourglass_. In _The Collected Works of Bruno Schulz_. Macmillan Pub Ltd. page vi.: "There are things that cannot ever occur with any precision. They are too big [...]