Benjamin Aaron

vantage pointsIt was the second time that I observed someone...

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 02:29:03 -0400

vantage points

It was the second time that I observed someone secretly taking a picture of their counterpart in a…

creating Lego instructions with a 5yr-old

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 16:05:16 -0500

Conversation with Samuel (5) during uncle-duty today:

S: We have so many Lego bricks but no building-instructions :(
Me: That’s true. Well, what do you think about making instructions ourselves based on those amazing vehicles you created there?
S: Mmh, how…

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automated feedback through emo-logging

Sun, 03 Mar 2013 08:35:27 -0500

I think that in the near future the body-logging trend will also encompass emotions (or is it already?). The nike fuelband could (easily?) be equipped with sensors for skin moisture and heartbeat (which together can be used to measure stress-level) and…

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a dog on the escalator

Mon, 11 Feb 2013 17:05:17 -0500

Today i was queueing in on an escalator behind a man with his dog. This rather little creature was a very curious and lively one. Full of enthusiasm it inspected it’s immediate surrounding – a space that hasn’t been there before. Stairs that folded up…

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the query is the new content

Sat, 26 Jan 2013 16:35:29 -0500

I look forward to see facebook graph search coming and settling into user behaviour. I think it will start “educating” users in their search-behaviour in a new way. I would imagine once it’s rolled out we’ll see quite some posts where users share…

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Photo

Tue, 01 Jan 2013 18:28:40 -0500

observations about psyche and causality

Wed, 26 Dec 2012 17:06:07 -0500

I email todo’s and notes to myself – recently i happened to grow a little thread (with myself) that collected the following moments of observations. I’d like compose a blogpost for them and close with some reflections what they might reveal :)

Coffee To…

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cloud-being and moon-rays

Fri, 12 Aug 2011 20:25:36 -0400

cloud-being and moon-rays:

here’s to share two magic moments from my yester-day…

a dancing cloud-being that waved at my mum and me as we were biking through the lovely Allgäu landscape in Bavaria, Southern Germany…. what…

Social Sculpture | illuminating interpersonal abundance

Mon, 25 Jul 2011 10:31:28 -0400

Social Sculpture | illuminating interpersonal abundance:

the last two weeks i was in a Social Sculpture course titled “Agents of Change and Ecological Citizenship” in Oxford together with 15 other wonderful people (amongst them Jasmine, who told me…

a slow emergence-y

Sun, 24 Jul 2011 13:43:32 -0400

a slow emergence-y:

this is from Kathy for me. we were together in the Social Sculpture course in Oxford (more detailed post coming soon) and we came to talk about the unfolding of entanglements, slow emergence, the…

leadership pathways & in-service exercise

Wed, 20 Jul 2011 07:05:09 -0400

leadership pathways & in-service exercise:

following a river of thoughts triggered while reading @notthisbody’s post on distributed leadership and being in service, here some lines on alignment and leadership pathways (rather than…

welcome shadows & extremes in groups

Wed, 01 Jun 2011 23:26:02 -0400

welcome shadows & extremes in groups:

two exercise-ideas to welcome shadow and character/idea/opinion-extremas in groups to foster wholeness…

in silence (with beautiful gentle music maybe) individually write on post-its “what you…

reflections on the social landscape in Bogotá

Tue, 10 May 2011 17:48:15 -0400

reflections on the social landscape in Bogotá:

scanning the social fabric

As all of us from my KaosPilot team (here for a 3 month outpost) i have been asked many times what i think about Bakata (the original name of…

FB harvest since mid September

Fri, 31 Dec 2010 23:55:17 -0500

FB harvest since mid September:

in line of the spotlight-harvests from my FB profile i did mid Sept and mid July, here is the last one for 2010 :) for privacy-reasons i only pull out my words. there are most delicious things…

an application to navigate complexity and foster emergence

Fri, 17 Dec 2010 13:58:12 -0500

an application to navigate complexity and foster emergence:

for the time being this will be the last techy/math-ish post – i have some delicious pending posts on perception, body and patterns that i will dive into over xmas…

story/field-credits: when…

process-creature meets context

Wed, 01 Dec 2010 22:24:41 -0500

process-creature meets context:

inspired by “social API” (application programming interface) from @gabrielshalom’s post in July where there has been dialogue going on around it… and following @technoshaman’s invitation to…

personalized stories

Wed, 01 Dec 2010 15:30:51 -0500

personalized stories:

this is somehow continuing what i started laying out in the social processors post last week. besides my own inner emergence and the continues nurturing through sensing global emergence –…

complexifying & simplifying

Sat, 27 Nov 2010 00:34:20 -0500

complexifying & simplifying:

thoughts/terms partly from/inspired-by @jascharohr, @gabrielshalom, @openworld and @gavinkeech. music from Natalie Rogers.

the inspiration to do this has been growing…

morphing & the wealth of 1&1′s

Thu, 25 Nov 2010 15:20:33 -0500

morphing & the wealth of 1&1′s:

done with MorphX. its freeware, i donated him though to appreciate his great work. you can go ahead and morph any picture into any other one… i got curious about…

social processors

Thu, 25 Nov 2010 15:20:33 -0500

social processors:

this post might sound rather techy (?)… please enjoy with me the exploration of this side of the spectrum :) it gets more practical in the end. the graphic is using an…