No Kings, No Presidents, No Voting
Sources of the Open Source Ethos Dear friends, I’m sharing here a remarkable new article by my dear friend and colleague Martin …
A Transformational Book That Was Missing — Until Now
Ring the bells that still can ringForget your perfect offeringThere is a crack, a crack in everythingThat’s how the light gets in. …
Expanding democratic genius into collective wisdom (Part 2)
I’ve been promoting mini-publics – citizen assemblies, citizens juries, citizen councils, etc. – for more than two decades. Their design is a …
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 …
A celebration of my favorite Taoist visionary evocateur of participatory deliberative democracy, Audrey Tang
Photo credit: Right Livelihood
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 …
Reimagining Deliberative Democracy to Meet the Metacrisis – Part Two (which is also “LLMs thinking with us – Part Two”)
My quiet summer fundraiser continues. So far we’ve received $2930 from 27 people. If you find my work meaningful, please send me some support (it’s tax-deductible). Thank you …
Seeding co-intelligent transformation into the electoral rapids
The increasing challenges and unpredictability of electoral activities – and society in general – in the US and elsewhere generate opportunities for moving towards fundamental transformation. …
An AI Politician Sparks Transformative Thinking (AI – A Partner in Wise Democracy? #6)
This just in! This morning I read about a candidate for UK Parliament who combines two entities – businessman Steve Endacott and …
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 …