Gil Friend’s Blog

  Remember Mystery Science Theater 3000? Yeah, wacky times. In our house we invented a variant called "Short Attention Span Theater." It's wildly on display in modern life. Yeah, wacky times. One way: the inability (or unwillingness) of our mass mediators and...

BETWEEN WORLDS. STILL. I ended the year on an uncharacteristically grumbly note. Don't Look Up. The BSAU of ESG. The retreating antarctic ice shelf, the creeping advance of fascism. My usual equanimity and resilience suffered. But I started the year with my most...

THE ART OF CHANGE "I don't know very much about art but I know what I like," someone allegedly said 100+ years. ago. I like art that moves me, challenges me, alters my state and my mood, that shifts my view of the world and the opportunities before me. While we debate...

MOODS & MESSES In the last Living Between Worlds zoomsalon of the year, we reflected on the changes the last two years have brought —in the world, and in our selves. And we explored how we move through the messes—tangles that are far more complex than "problems"...

December 08, 2021 TOUCH AND GO It's a tough time to make assessments, or predictions. The widespread, justifiable, and inevitable disappointment with COP26 masks enormous shifts underway in business, policy, and the wider culture. These shifts that are notable, even...

On our last Living Between Worlds call (the video is here; please subscribe!) we digested the COP26 global climate summit: with a bit of appreciation for the excruciatingly incremental progress that seems to be the only way we know to change—except when we have...

CarbonBrief: COP26: Key outcomes agreed at the UN climate talks in Glasgow A very substantive and detailed (and not judgmental) summary by CarbonBrief of COP26 (for those who can tolerate watching sausage being made). Includes an "interactive table…show[ing] why it...

Reminder: Living Between Worlds. | Glasgow: What now? | Trimtabs: 1-on-1 | Hope LIVING BETWEEN WORLDS Our monthly Zoom salon continues Wed 12p PT. Register here for next week's call and future sessions. (Please zoom in five to ten minutes before noon, so we can start...

Living Between Worlds • Is Larry Lagging? • Can books change anything? • Sustainable Brands LIVING BETWEEN WORLDS My monthly ZoomSalon, exploring how we might live with calm, grace, and power in "the time of monsters," continues next Wednesday (and every third...