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The 52:52:52 project, launching both on this site and on social media in early 2024 will help you address 52 issues with 52 responses over 52 weeks.

A Mundane Comedy is Dominic Kelleher's new book, which will be published in mid 2024. The introduction is available here and further extracts will appear on this site and on social media in the coming months.

This site addresses what's changing, in our own lives, in our organisations, and in wider society. You'll learn about key changes across more than 150 areas, ranging from ageing and time, through nature and animals, to kindness and love...and very much else inbetween.

Halcyon's aim is to help you reflect on how you can better deal with related change in your own life.

Attention

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Only by combining data stored deep within our brains can we forge new ideas. No amount of magpie assemblage can compensate for this slow, synthetic creativity. Hyperlinks and overstimulation mean the brain must give most of its attention to short-term decisions. Little makes it through the fragile transfer into deeper processing - The Economist, http://www.economist.com/node/16423330?story_id=16423330&fsrc=scn/tw/te…

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If a man reads very hard... he will have little time for thought - Robert Louis Stevenson

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I was at inbox zero at 11:40am, after answering 210 emails. Now, at 21:55, 84 unread emails. FFS! Prometheus had it easy - David McCandless, http://twitter.com/mccandelish

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Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity - Simone Weil

No other stories matter more... Halcyon Identifies 31 August 2012

...than these, especially when told so calmly and compellingly.  Please spread the word...

Could it be that knowledge is overrated?

Harvard Business Review asked this question, suggesting that while knowledge is generally a good thing, there is a point at which it may be bad: we can only comprehend so much; our minds have limits in our ability to digest information, just as shelves are only meant to hold so many books and too much knowledge can undermine the greatest insights, the deepest conjectures.

On Walking

Since Monday 8 March 2010, having heard someone on BBC Radio 4 extol the joys of repeating the same walk over and over, I have decided (when I remember, or when I'm not being distracted by the antics of our dog, Jodie) to try and be present and observant during a regular walk from home, one we call "Passetemps" (the former name of a restaurant nearby), observing the minute daily changes gradually emerge into the seasonal patterns of growth, decline and rebirth.

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What to do with too much information is the great riddle of our time - Theodore Zeldin

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Victims of technology...have allowed the immediate to drive out the important - Clive Holtham