Randomly selected legislators? You’ve got to be kidding!
It’s easy to dismiss the idea of a randomly selected legislature. After all, how could a bunch of ordinary people create workable, …
Comparing “the wisdom of crowds” to real collective wisdom
The popular book “The Wisdom of Crowds” says a lot about the remarkable accuracy of thousands of people making guesses about something …
“A Not So Divided America” – but is it wise?
A new study of 24 major surveys in the U.S. shows clearly that partisan gridlock in Washington DC is not the result …
Realizing Empathy as Part of Co-Intelligence
Few people – including myself until recently – have realized how important empathy is to co-intelligence. Here I focus on four important …
What is it about Random Selection??
In recent months I’ve discovered that random selection offers unexpected gifts to our efforts to create more fair, functional, and intelligent politics …
Competing Narratives about the Ukraine Crisis
There are competing narratives about what’s going on in the Ukraine and why, and it behooves us as citizens to expose ourselves …
Empathy notes #4: Toward an era of wise caring
Reason and feeling each have gifts and limitations. Used well together they generate wise caring. There are examples of wise caring in …
Citizen deliberators generate well-considered recommendations
The process and mandate of panelists in citizen deliberative councils tend to make randomly selected people act much more responsibly as citizens while on the council. A recent article in the New York Times Magazine notes that randomly selected pa…
A threat to the Internet, and naming the right problem
A THREAT TO THE INTERNET, AND NAMING THE RIGHT PROBLEM by John Abbe President of the Co-Intelligence Institute The Internet is in an uproar over proposed U.S. House bill Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), and it’s corresponding bill in the Senate, the…
Tom Atlee “public wisdom” conference call 1/17/2012
I’ll be doing an online dialogue in the 2-hour National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation Confab Call on Tuesday, January 17th at 2pm Eastern (11am Pacific). Ben Roberts, a principal in both weDialogue and Occupy Café, will be facilitating t…