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Manifesto of the Chief Sorceress

On July 20, 2014 By Nicole Radziwill
This post is to answer a question that several people have asked me over the past couple of years… albeit in very informal surroundings, either as a postscript to a friendly email, or after a couple of beers together. I’m really not averse to answering the question, so it’s been curious to me that it’s [...]
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On Searching, Rebellion, and Finding Your Gift

On December 17, 2013 By Nicole Radziwill
This article has originally appeared on Rebelle Society – December 16, 2013. I have written before about my tendency towards restlessness, and my natural capacity and desire for movement and change – I have accepted that my life was never going to be ‘normal’ or conventional and I have gotten to know, embraced [...]
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Future-Ready Co-Creating

On December 2, 2013 By Nicole Radziwill
This is a guest post from Mirona Constantinescu, who is a Young Scholar at the Institute for New Economic Thinking. She’s cooking up the San Diego Future-Ready Co-Living Communities Initiative, which is really interesting to me because so many elements of an educational environment that reflects Burning Man principles and culture [...]
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Schools that Don’t Look Like Prisons, but Mixed Media Cathedrals

On November 25, 2013 By Nicole Radziwill
My friend Yana (that’s her, at left, when she was pregnant) has been thinking about the educational process lately, in part because her son is starting to become a part of it… and she’s been reflecting on her SAT experience and imagining what the process should be – if you’re really trying to assess [...]
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Radical Self-Expression is Risky

On September 12, 2013 By Nicole Radziwill
Like 60-odd thousand other people, I’m psychologically and emotionally adjusting to my departure from Black Rock City. I’m sure I’ll post a lot more about it over the next few months, but for now, I’m simply lamenting the loss of radical self-expression as a community virtue, and feeling a sense of sadness that it isn’t [...]
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Burning Man: Quality and Innovation in the Spirit of Deming

On June 1, 2013 By Nicole Radziwill
The new article Morgan and I wrote for the Journal for Quality and Participation is out!! And it’s freely available to all readers at http://asq.org/qic/display-item/index.html?item=35841. We invite you to check it out. (Note that the article distinguishes between foundational and operational aspects of the 10 principles, which Caveat appropriately recognized to be overly analytical [...]
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Students as “Free Range” Chickens

On March 28, 2013 By Morgan Benton
“Our students are kind of like ‘free range’ chickens,” I found myself saying earlier this week, when Nicole and I were being interviewed about the Burning Mind Project.  It was the first time I’d ever used that metaphor, and over the past couple of days, I’m more and more coming to see how apt it [...]
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Your Gifts: The Path of the Innovator

On March 25, 2013 By Nicole Radziwill
(Image Credit: Doug Buckley of http://hyperactive.to) One of the topics that comes up often in the classes I teach is the difference between invention and innovation. The way I explain it, invention is a state of potential. You have a novel idea, or process, or technology, and it is complete in and of itself. But that [...]
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At the Gates?

On March 4, 2013 By Morgan Benton
A few days ago on the Burning Blog, Caveat Magister posted his reaction to the Burning Mind Project.  The post has received some endorsements, and some pushback.  I’d like to take the time to respond, as well. On Dictatorship and Extreme Bigotry First, I want to express my heartfelt gratitude to Caveat for [...]
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My Academic Civil Disobedience

On March 4, 2013 By Nicole Radziwill
  On February 26, Caveat posted an article on the Burning Blog noticing that academics (that is, professors and the like) are starting to self-organize within Burner culture, and “I’ve reluctantly concluded that academia per see is very, very, bad for Burning Man – and that we’d be better off if Burners engage [...]
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