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 …
Raising children for a miraculous interconnected world
I offer videos from two of my most important teachers – Daniel Schmachtenberger and Nora Bateson. Their lessons are about the importance …
Holoficiency = efficiency of, by and for the Whole
Most forms of efficiency depend on narrow intelligence promoting narrow, short-term goals. This is not healthy for the world or our civilization’s …
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 …
Engaging the Metacrisis (Part 3: Polycrisis vs Metacrisis…) (was “Systemic Drivers of Collapse”)
I offer here a review and extensive excerpts from an article that is shifting my perspective on the polycrisis/metacrisis, and thus is …
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 …
Systemic Drivers of Collapse (Part 1: Introduction)
“Systemic drivers of collapse”* are dynamics and assumptions built into our current global civilization’s systems. They are present in various forms in diverse …
What’s Tom been up to the last few months?
I’ve been out of touch here for several months. This short newsletter shares a bit of what I’ve been up to – including …