vTaiwan (Part 3) – Two Stories of Tapping the Wisdom and Resourcefulness of the Whole
Here I describe how Taiwan’s “gov-zero” mobilized 9700 people to digitize 30,000 campaign finance records in 24 hours… and how vTaiwan mobilized …
vTaiwan (Part 2) – Notes on Aspects of the vTaiwan Phenomenon
To expand on my introduction to vTaiwan in Part 1, I offer here some descriptions of its roots, its dynamics, and some …
Is the Public Well-Informed Enough to be Trusted with Democracy?
OZY.com is an interesting news feed that includes occasional provocative questions for their audience under the name “Third Rail”. Recently they asked …
The fall and rise of truth, trust and society’s capacity for wisdom
What does it mean to live in a “post-truth era”? Is there a broader history and context feeding that phenomenon than just …
The wisdom of the fringes?
Counterintuitively, the highest evolutionary wisdom lies on the fringes of business as usual. The fringes are fringes because they are different, dissident, …
Reality, truth and consequences
Truth and reality are not as obvious and easily established as we might think – especially in a world of diverse perspectives, …
A critical shift in our view of democracy
Most people realize that democracy is in crisis. They understand that we need to make it more just, principled, participatory, fair and …
Engaging human life energy elegantly for change
To change the world we can call forth and inspire people’s life energy toward the fundamental needs of life. Doing this requires …
“The Really Big One”
The greatest disaster ever faced by the U.S. is overdue in the Pacific Northwest. A long but viral article “The Really Big …
Reductionism and essence in collective intelligence and co-intelligence
Collective intelligence is more than most people in the field think it is. And co-intelligence is more than collective intelligence – since …