Medium Short: Doing The Math
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Welcome to the latest Medium Short, a weekly accountability practice highlighting what I am reading, writing, and doing along the unmarked trail towards #IndustrialHealing. This is a personal update — my (debatably) more professional writing is freely available through this link.
I’m feeling the heat. The power came back on last Friday which meant I could stop sleeping in my snow pants and toque. Now I’m in Toronto where there is a heatwave. More to the point, I’m delivering a workshop at the end of this month on Matereality. Along with promoting the workshop and designing the content, I’m finishing up the fifth assessment, on global mining and energy company Glencore, that will be explored in the workshop. It’s all heating up on me.
Here’s the week that was.
Reading: energizing
The topic of “energy” is big. Parsing the complexities of one of the world’s largest mining and energy companies in relation to an economy that works in service of life is exponentially ginormous.
Ironically, coal is the easy part of all that. It’s the “renewable energy” stuff that is mind-bending and needs much closer examination.
Working on it. Reading about it, too, including Glencore’s 288-paged annual report, and more.
Writing: bubbling
I didn’t officially “publish” anything new this week although the more enthusiastic spectators of paint-drying out there may have noticed the composition of more focused slides in the Glencore Matereality assessment. I consider this “writing” in as much as corporate disclosures are my artistic medium of choice right now.
I went to sleep on Monday night (grateful for the functioning heat and…) puzzled about how best to represent the information I was parsing in 17 pages of detailed disclosures on executive pay. I dreamt of a…
