Author; Lost, Found: An Ongoing Look at the Meaning of a Landmark Television Series
August 16th, 2008
Launched this blog at Potluck, covering the television series Lost episode by episode from a systems perspective.
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Entries for 'Systems'
Relaunched marksmeritt.com as an interactive resume and biography website
July 28th, 2008
- Relaunched marksmeritt.com with an innovative WordPress/database-driven interactive resume and biography.
- Detailed the relaunch process in My Life in Tags: Creating an Interactive Resume and Biographical Website.
Founder, Webmaster; MarkSMeritt.com
November 21st, 2007
- Founded this web site to serve as a central hub for information about my pursuits and background, including an innovative WordPress/database-driven interactive resume.
- Webmaster for marksmeritt.com.
Launched marksmeritt.com
November 21st, 2007
Launched marksmeritt.com, using WordPress publishing platform and customized programming with PHP, HTML and plugins.
Author; Forcing the Balance, Or How I Learned to Stop Worshiping Star Wars and Understand Myself
November 24th, 2005
Autobiographical essay on talents, passions, and finding and staying on one’s path.
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Co-Presenter; Emergent Associates, LLC: Trailblazing Tribalizing
May 28th, 2005
- Invited presentation describing how Emergent Associates’ approach can foster a positive change revolution rooted in human-scale social structures. Co-presented by Dr. Howard Ditkoff.
- IshCon Spring 2005, Quaker Hill Conference Center, Richmond, IN, May 27-30, 2005.
Co-Founder, Research and Development Advisor; Emergent Associates, LLC
November 22nd, 2004
Emergent Associates, LLC, Oak Park, MI
- Co-founded this coaching, consulting and training company which uses Appreciative Inquiry and positive psychology as a framework for integrating best practices and knowledge from organizational development, developmental/evolutionary psychology and systems-related disciplines to create practical tools which mutually foster empowerment and community for individuals and groups.
- Co-created proprietary rapid coaching techniques, integrating AI and developmental psychology and able to produce “eureka” results in as little as 10 minutes.
- Co-developer of a set of proprietary communication tools to foster positive change, informed by AI along with several established effective communication techniques, relationship models and personality typologies.
- Co-created a dynamic model of psychological development informed by complexity science, positive psychology, personality typologies and several universal models of human development.
Masters thesis abridged and translated into Portuguese
July 4th, 2004
The Unsustainability and Origins of Socioeconomic Increase is abridged and translated into Portuguese by Janos Biro.
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Changing the Economic Paradigm Portuguese excerpt
Human expansion and the theory of r-K selection Portuguese excerpt
Founder, Principal Contributor, Webmaster; Potluck
May 27th, 2004
- Founded this web site to present original works, including many that explore familiar topics from a systems perspective.
- Webmaster for potluck.com.
Author, Viewpoint on Food and Population, for Mother Earth News
March 3rd, 2004
Contracted by Mother Earth News to write this piece exploring the relationship between food supply and population size. Unpublished.
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Mother Earth News
Founder, Editor, Webmaster; Mosaic: A Magazine of Arts, Sciences & Everything in Between
April 6th, 2003
Presenter, The Game of Community
February 4th, 2003
- Invited presentation describing how game theory and cooperation theory can help us build community.
- Rotary Club of Red Hook breakfast, The Red Hook Inn, Red Hook, NY.
Winner, Annual Thesis Prize
February 26th, 2002
The Unsustainability and Origins of Socioeconomic Increase is awarded the first Annual Thesis Prize for best thesis by the M.A. Program in Liberal Studies, City University of New York, Graduate School and University Center, New York, NY.
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City University of New York
Graduate Center
M.A. Program in Liberal Studies
Founder, Editor, Webmaster; Sostenuto: The Systems-Thinking Magazine of Arts & Sciences
February 11th, 2002
- Founded this online magazine to explore familiar topics friom a systems perspective. Subsequently relaunched as Mosaic: A Magazine of Arts, Sciences & Everything in Between.
- Webmaster for www.sostenuto.permaculture.net, using custom HTML programming.
Founder, Editor, Webmaster; permaCulture: The Systems-Thinking Magazine of Arts & Sciences
September 15th, 2001
Author, The Unsustainability and Origins of Socioeconomic Increase
January 25th, 2001
- Masters thesis for M.A. Program in Liberal Studies, City University of New York, Graduate School and University Center, New York, NY.
- Faculty advisor: William Kornblum.
Read at potluck.com.
City University of New York
Graduate Center
M.A. Program in Liberal Studies
Presenter, World Bank 2000 and the Unsustainability of Economic Growth
November 19th, 2000
- Invited paper in panel discussion on “The World Bank Millennium Report: A Recipe for More Inequality.” Organizer: Michael L. Blim. Chair: Jarrett Zigon.
- 99th American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco Hilton & Towers, San Francisco, CA, November 15-19, 2000.
Business Consultant
January 6th, 2000
Business consulting specializing in Microsoft Excel, creation of databases and other information management tools, project management, data analysis, forecasting, quality control, research, and both technical and academic writing.
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Co-Author, Hugh Manatee
January 31st, 1995
- Children’s book with an ecological theme.
- Represented by the Farber Literary Agency, New York, NY, 1995-1996.
Co-Screenwriter, Ishmael
December 13th, 1993
Adaptation of the book by Daniel Quinn.
Daniel Quinn
Ishmael
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