My search for life-serving transformational directions in these times
Dear friends, We are certainly in a time of profound transformation. The competition between worldviews is heating up and the field of ideological …
What are the economics of trauma, healing and enoughness?
My Australian friend Tirrania Suhood recently referred me to an excellent article on economic dynamics that are driving personal, community, national and …
Working with AI and all forms of co-intelligence
Dear friends, The most popular co-intelligence book on the planet right now is Ethan Mollick’s Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI. His …
Where co-intelligence and wise democracy came from
I recently rediscovered a 2017 article I’d forgotten about that not only describes where the Wise Democracy Project came from but articulates …
What is the practice of co-intelligence? Part 5 – Ten Qualities
This is the fifth of six posts seeking to describe what it means to practice co-intelligence. (You can read the first post here, …
What is the practice of co-intelligence? Part 2
This is the second of six posts seeking to describe what it means to practice co-intelligence. (You can find the first post …
The prospect of wise public policy (AI – A Partner in Wise Democracy? #7)
I had a conversation with Claude, one of my AI colleagues, which I share here. Starting with a prompt about wise public …
Individualism, Collectivism, Metabolism (Hospicing Modernity, Part 1)
Shifting our fundamental identity from being separate individuals and groups to being facets of the dynamic metabolism of nature – as strange …
The Holistic Paradigm as Democracy’s Evolutionary Frontier
I want to bring your attention to a very important essay on “The Holistic Paradigm as Democracy’s Evolutionary Frontier”. Starting here, it explores …
Talking about public participation & community engagement with the US Federal Government
These are my responses to the Federal government’s new Request for Information (RFI) survey about methods and leading practices for advancing public …