Robert J. Ballantyne

Policy Governance ® consultant - backcountry skier, Rotarian - Bowen Island, BC - blogger but the main site is

[Robert J. Ballantyne @RobertB]

@raulpacheco It seems that you are still open to new learning and discovery. 😎👏

[Sabine Hossenfelder @skdh]

Funky hotel room

[Elle Cordova @ellerhymes]

In case you needed reminding today:

Stars lived and died
to put flecks in your eyes
and in eons will never repeat them
how tiny the odds of you being you
and how lucky it was you beat them

[Robert J. Ballantyne @RobertB]

@BenWilsonThings @Cypressmtn My last ski of the season down Mt. Strachan was on June 1st. Much of the slopes was patched out. (Yes, in the pic you can just see 2 guys going up under the top lift.) 😎

[Robert J. Ballantyne @RobertB]

It was after midnight when I went online to https://t.co/icLT1tFFr2 to have a personal encounter with its new chatbot called PI. I was impressed with its comprehension of the concepts I offered. Here is our conversation: https://t.co/lvbjYuhYmN

[Creating the Future @CreatingTFuture]

What do @NonprofitAF , @robertegger and @karlwilding have in common? They're joining everyone in our Creating the Future community to determine what's next for our organization! This is what democracy looks like.

https://t.co/wjmrTTPAM8

[Robert J. Ballantyne @RobertB]

Interested in Elizabeth Ballantyne’s academic work? She writes in this published paper“…non-market housing [proposed]… as a path to systemic change in the housing market that will transform it into a system that meets the housing needs of all.” https://t.co/SPQ5w8NSB3

[NASA Webb Telescope @NASAWebb]

👀 Sneak a peek at the deepest & sharpest infrared image of the early universe ever taken — all in a day’s work for the Webb telescope. (Literally, capturing it took less than a day!) This is Webb’s first image released as we begin to #UnfoldTheUniverse: https://t.co/tlougFWg8B

[Robert J. Ballantyne @RobertB]

In 2017 Guthrie Gloag created a sculpture of a life-size mastodon at a secret location in the woods. We found it on Bowen Island. Today I read in the Island's newspaper, the Undercurrent, that it is gone. Gloag explains. https://t.co/GKRZ9ggy0g

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Breaking!

[Romilly Weeks @romillyweeks]

Polish border with Ukraine. This is the best of humanity. People driving from all over Europe to offer refugees a lift and a room. @itvnews #ukraine

[Robert J. Ballantyne @RobertB]

It's 83 years since a European country stormed into another to re-write history and change borders. Do Russian mothers think their front-line children are heroes or monsters? The days of enslaving an educated and unwilling population are over. #UkraineRussiaCrisis

[Robert J. Ballantyne @RobertB]

I think we/you are talking about empowering the population of the world to have the tools to imagine and create the world we want. We know that today the 0.01% have the power. The question is how to grow #CreatingTheFuture to achieve this capacity.

[Robert J. Ballantyne @RobertB]

"What ensures the values?" 1st: it is either a person or an entity. An entity (association) is immortal. If it is left to the community the integrity will become fractured. 2nd: the values have to be expressed in words. 3rd: regardless it will evolve/change. #CreatingTheFuture

[Robert J. Ballantyne @RobertB]

Hildy, "...it needs to be somebody's job." Might it be better to say, "someone needs to be accountable"? Then accountable to whom or what (entity)? And for what? #CreatingTheFuture I'd say yes because that manages values.

[Robert J. Ballantyne @RobertB]

It seems important for the people 'in the space' to hear what everyone 'feels' (as apposed to 'thinks') because we all know more than we know we know. Some of that is accessed through feelings. #CreatingTheFuture

[Robert J. Ballantyne @RobertB]

Not really a recommendation, but if you don't like Facebook, you might look at Mighty Networks. https://t.co/R1IqdnuX4B #CreatingTheFuture

[Robert J. Ballantyne @RobertB]

Is the whole group accountable for 'holding the space' or would the group delegate the responsibility to a 'facilitator?' #CreatingTheFuture

[Bowen Rotary @BowenRotary]

Allison McClintock commented, "love what you guys do :)" and contributed $45 https://t.co/rvhaIi0Vba