practicing emergent strategy: change is constant. be like water.

last week, during our boston sunday session with adrienne maree brown, we did an activity where we somatically developed an understanding of how we individually and collectively dealt with change. there were definitely interesting lessons about the collective, but one of the takeaways for me was that i generally deal with unexpected change poorly. this i knew, but it was funny to see it show up somatically.

the lakota people's definition of sustainability

“…honoring those who came before us. Meeting the needs of the present generation, not compromising the future so that the coming generations are able to meet their own needs and guide our vision and renew each cycle of life.”

daniel kahneman: overconfidence is about lack of imagination

… when you look globally at people’s actions, overconfidence is endemic. I mean we have too much confidence in our beliefs, and overconfidence really is associated with a failure of imagination. When you cannot imagine an alternative to your belief, you are convinced that your belief is true. That’s overconfidence. — daniel kahneman

collaborative sci-fi generator experiment: a journey to heal my flesh and blood

preface: this is my short piece, written for the collaborative sci-fi generator experiment (colab radio blog post coming… some day) i hosted in colab on 16 nov 2017. the experiment was an adaptation of adrienne maree brown’s detroit sci-fi generator.

academia is wrong because it is in wrong relationship with the resources around it

yesterday, my critique of academia crystallized in a new way. i have had this conversation with so many people in so many ways and i almost feel foolish for not seeing it before.