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  • People are the way they are June 15, 2018
    People are the way they are because it is the way they have adapted to survive in their world. You can accept them or reject them for it, but it makes little sense to try to change it. People are they way they are because it is the way that works for them. The same […]
  • The System Made Me Do It June 14, 2018
    I somehow found myself thinking about a passage from Hannah Arendt’s 1951 landmark Origins of Totalitarianism while I was at the Thames Valley Family Health Team conference a few weeks ago. (I posted more about the conference earlier.) The event was about delivering primary health care, and Arendt’s book is about totalitarian regimes, which makes […]
  • Everybody’s advertising Facebook June 13, 2018
    Every time a company or business implores its customers or clients to ‘Like us on Facebook’ or ‘Follow us on Twitter’ they provide free advertising for Facebook and Twitter. Subsequently, in seeking likes and followers, businesses entrust communications with their customers and clients to a third party, a corporate intermediary — an intermediary that is […]
  • The Colonizer and the Colonized June 12, 2018
    In this episode, Jeremy Nathan Marks and I discuss reading The Colonizer and the Colonized by Albert Memmi for our book club.
  • Meditation of a Poll Official June 10, 2018
    On Thursday I worked as a poll supervisor for Elections Ontario. I have joined election teams for the last couple provincial and federal elections. I cannot fully explain my enthusiasm for working election days. The days are long and mentally exhausting, and yet strangely rewarding and enlightening. To be a poll official is to spend […]

James Shelley

James ShelleyTwo words to describe myself: curious and generalist. I currently split my time between coordinating a research centre at the Faculty of Health Sciences at Western University and freelancing in communications, facilitation, media, and knowledge translation. In addition, I teach and write about system and complexity theory, with an applied focus on organizational, societal, and behavioural change. I have penchants for classical literature, history, and active living. This little corner of the internet is about all of these things... and pretty much everything else in the universe.

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