iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Say what you want: "Strategic thinking doesn’t ignore the systems all around us, or the trade-offs that scarcity and competition require. Instead, it embraces them."

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I recently finished reading: Quiet Champions A Way Forward for Mentors in Turbulent Times by Ian Chisholm 📚, which I highly recommend. My intent is to write a review. For now, this quote feels like a good way to summa... commonplace.rumon.ca/2026/09/27/i-r…

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Commonplace Book | Rumon Carter

Coming across this while (re)building a feed reader* in the interest of reducing my own levels of distraction is 🎯 *Using Inkwell app, part of the @micro.blog set of tools. Doing so in parallel with establishing a micro.blog instance at commonplace.rumon.ca, the content of which x-posts here. 🤓

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Sturgeon Carl Ray ~ Anishinaabe 1975

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Autumn, early morning, late flowers

Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

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Boreal Tale Joe Coffey 2026

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Blacksky Algorithms @blackskyweb.xyz · 23/09/2026

🎉 Acorn is officially open. You can now create a space for your community on the open social web - no wait required. acorn.blacksky.community

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rumon carter @rumon.ca · 23/09/2026

Heaps of respect for this disposition, B., an indication and reflection of the values and disposition of this broader community in general. Hat tip for your continuing leaderships 👏

rumon carter @rumon.ca · 11/09/2026

“This is not just a book about having better arguments, it’s a manual for building stronger relationships.” ~ @adamgrant.bsky.social Such an excellent, helpful listen, Priya Parker in conversation w/ Adam & Brene Brown: open.spotify.com/episode/0iBQ... Will certainly be sharing with teammates.

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Can Conflict Actually Make Our Relationships Stronger? with Priya Parker

The Curiosity Shop with Brené Brown and Adam Grant · Episode

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rumon carter @rumon.ca · 02/09/2026

I won’t lie, this one jumped out at me from my New Episodes list, no idea why 😳😉 open.spotify.com/episode/0Sw2... Worthwhile listen IMO (and I’ve been generally enjoying this new joint from @freakonomics.bsky.social’s Dubner).

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How to Run an Institution in an Anti-Institution Era | Better in Person

Freakonomics Radio · Episode

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rumon carter @rumon.ca · 01/09/2026

Morning run views. Kitty Islet municipal park in the foreground, Trial Island (provincial) Ecological Reserve in the midground, Olympic Mountain Range (international) in the background, all floating on the Salish Sea.

Aerin Jacob, PhD @aerinj.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

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Cathedral Grove gets my vote! There’s nothing like being among ancient trees. Protect old growth.

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rumon carter @rumon.ca · 31/08/2026

*This is my add, but I sense a fair one from the content that followed from Parrish. Also, perhaps this is a cousin of confirmation bias, but I love the phenomenon of grappling with something and the universe conspiring to offer supportive content. Link to pod: open.spotify.com/episode/3aUr...

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How to Make Better Decisions | Shane Parrish [Best of]

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rumon carter @rumon.ca · 31/08/2026

“The source of all bad decisions is blind spots. If we knew the consequences of our actions, and we had perfect information, we would always make the perfect decision. Perspective [taking*] becomes a way to reduce blind spots.” ~ Shane Parrish via @goodlifeproject.bsky.social

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rumon carter @rumon.ca · 30/08/2026

Great question @indyjohar.bsky.social “What happens when societies can produce more value w/o a proportionate investment in…people’s health, knowledge or agency-while the institutions distributing security & dignity still demand proof of economic usefulness?” indyjohar.substack.com/p/being-huma...

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Being Human: Being Priced Out of the Future

AI, capital and the crisis of human valuation — a provocation

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rumon carter @rumon.ca · 29/08/2026

… Which is all right. In low doses, right? But if that's the basic main staple of your diet, you're gonna die. In a meaningful way, you're going to die." ~ David Foster Wallace (Pardon the heavy dose of weekend uplift.)

rumon carter @rumon.ca · 29/08/2026

"The technology is just gonna get better and better and better and better. And it's gonna get easier and easier, and more and more convenient, and more and more pleasurable to be alone with images on a screen, given to us by people who do not love us but want our money. … [1/2]

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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 27/08/2026

We're not changing the name of Lake Ontario. Name it whatever you want at your leisure: gulfof.mapquest.com/lakeontario (tag us so we can see your work 🙂)

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rumon carter @rumon.ca · 27/08/2026

Last time I was there, three summers ago. ❤️

rumon carter @rumon.ca · 27/08/2026

Another instalment in my occasional series of found road wisdom … #seenonmyrun #commute

Black and white image of a travel trailer bearing the inscription “Escape the Ordinary”

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rumon carter @rumon.ca · 25/08/2026

Thinking of you, @eaves.ca (and others)…

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rumon carter @rumon.ca · 23/08/2026

When we’re, y’know, testing our food ideas and inspirations in it. 🤓

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rumon carter @rumon.ca · 23/08/2026

First batch of cowboy candy out of our farmhouse test kitchen*. Working with sugar rush peach peppers. Couldn’t be happier with the results (including in respect of the breakfast sandwich that was their first application). 🤌 *It’s our only kitchen.

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rumon carter @rumon.ca · 23/08/2026

Bringing a couple friends to another friend’s birthday dinner …

A couple of Penhill watermelon dinner plate dahlias in a galvanized bucket, sitting on a bench

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rumon carter @rumon.ca · 22/08/2026

Morning walk at PKOLS with a dear friend and my dog … at the point at which we were comparing notes on why we had each on separate and overlapping timelines, let our relationships with this lapse. So begin, again.

The morning sun peaking through the trunks of a stand of mixed coniferous and deciduous trees.

Oh, and @indyjohar.bsky.social, I just heard you’re going to be here next week. Let me know if you’d like to connect (with the) outside while here … I’d be only too happy to host. (And we needn’t journey out before the light arrives. 😉)

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Early airport drop means a sunrise run at ȽÁU,WELNEW (Tlay-will-nook), the high point of land that enabled the W̱SÁNEĆ people to survive the great flood. Here, the stories tell the ancestors were able to tie their canoe to an arbutus tree with a giant cedar rope, until the floodwaters subsided.

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Prompted by P’s shift, I suggested a little two-up book club. Skipping how the “club” part of that equation ended up 😉 I loved and resonated with the read, and offer it to anyone wanting to contribute to making positive change. As Seth says: Go make a ruckus. ❤️ [3/3]

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@sethgodin.bsky.social is on my personal Board of Advisors (about which he has no idea 🤓) and I do my best to take in - and emulate - most everything that he shares. But I hadn’t yet read this book. [2/3]

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rumon carter @rumon.ca · 20/08/2026

“Marketing is the generous act of helping someone solve a problem. Their problem.” Bonusdaughter 2 is heading back to school in a couple weeks, starting year 2 with a new major. [1/3]

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Cheers friend. All is very reflective of / reflected in your piece. 😉 (And well in all the ways that matter most. Here’s hoping likewise for you and yours. ❤️)

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rumon carter @rumon.ca · 20/08/2026

Lovely little eveningmaker … haven’t seen an owl in the yard in a while (though evidence - feathers, meal carcasses, etc. - is always appearing) … and this one appears to be a young-of-the-year. Always a treat, always grateful.

Two coniferous trees with a juvenile Barred Owl in a branch midway up one of them.

rumon carter @rumon.ca · 19/08/2026

Lovely listen for my bike commute into the office…equal parts nostalgia, inspo and gratitude that Deb’s been sharing - and surviving online! - for 20 years. Gonna pass along to Kid 1 heading off to her own home - and cooking - at uni this year. (And will make that buttered zucchini pasta this week.)

rumon carter @rumon.ca · 19/08/2026

@andrewgreenway.bsky.social & @pahlkadot.bsky.social have teamed up again on another piece about the case for - and approaches to - change in public institutions. Greenway foreshadows the argument and its antecedents here: andrewgreenway.substack.com/p/the-depart... As ever, a recommended read.

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The Department of Now

Rewiring the state requires institutional rebirth.

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rumon carter @rumon.ca · 19/08/2026

Basil harvest and pesto production night, happily casting my mind ahead to school year lunches and various of our fave recipes we’ll prep together in the coming months …

A big pile of basil being “looked” over by a bouquet of pink-hued Penhill Watermelon dahlias.