Expanding democratic genius into collective wisdom (Part 1)
Dear friends, While working on my last blog post about Audrey Tang’s work, I was also helping organize and edit a book …
Weaving Greater Intelligences Together
——-My quiet winter fundraising campaignwill continue through January…So far we’ve received $775 from 15 people(out of 1500 subscribers).Might you join them?If you …
Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of my best essay on emergent group process
My quiet summer fundraiser continues. So far we’ve received $2282 from 23 people. If you find my work meaningful, please send me …
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 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, …
Pluralism, Plurality, and the Generation of Collective Wisdom
The New Pluralists and Plurality activists are rising to meet the challenges of rapidly increasing social division. They aspire to enhance the …
A Quick Note on AI and the Metacrisis
AI can make the metacrisis worse, leading to collapse. If there were ways to use AI to help head off its negative …
Systemic Drivers of Collapse (Part 2 – An Overview)
The phase “systemic drivers of collapse” refers to dynamic factors contributing to past, present and future instances of societal collapse. In our …
Polis: A Breakthrough tool for broader, deeper consensus
Polis is an online survey platform where all the items being surveyed are created by the participants, whose responses to each other’s …
Truth and the dance of fact and story (Sense-Making Part 7)
Facts ground us in reality. Stories ground us in meaning. The two together can produce powerful guidance, what we call “truth”. But …