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"We're not waiting for the future, we're not trying to fend it off. We're living in it".
My recent foray into facebook reminded me that this was almost the last thing I posted back in 2019 before I went dark over there.
It's still very powerful.
Climate Change: what do you want me to say?
https://www.ft.com/video/87f604f5-4be7-4225-8bc4-e5b410c35942

People seem to have really liked this post!
What do _you_ think?
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/fun-augmented-intelligence-winston-friendand-friend-gil-friend-wuj9c/?trackingId=qtyR…

"Sustainability"? Nah. What About a Business Narrative That Centers the Living World?
Andrew Winston recently offered a wonderful post asking ChatGPT for alternatives to "the core narrative or story that we're living today." Here's a snippet of what he wrote: Here are the 1-sentence versions, but the longer ones in my post are fascinating and worth a read.

"We're not waiting for the future, we're not trying to fend it off. We're living in it".
My recent foray into facebook reminded me that this was almost the last thing I posted back in 2019 before I went dark over there.
It's still very powerful.
Climate Change: what do you want me to say?
https://www.ft.com/video/87f604f5-4be7-4225-8bc4-e5b410c35942

"When [we] dreamed up the #SciFiEconomics Lab(2019) we had no idea what #Graeber & Wengrow were up to. Yet, like them, we felt stuck. We felt crippled by our inability to imagine living under any system other than late-stage

What David Graeber and David Wengrow's "The Dawn of Everything" has in common with sci-fi economics
Photo: Dennis Jarvis CC-BY – link A few weeks ago, I finished David Graeber and David Wengrow’s The Dawn of Everything. It is not science fiction, nor is it economics. And yet, I propose it has to do with both. The book begins by stating inequality has risen to the top of the agenda for public debate. Scholars, politicians, business leaders are calling attention to it. Where, they ask, does inequality come from? How can we reduce it to tolerable levels? The authors then proceed to questio…

"Grief is the ultimate interruption of the normalization of mass death and mass murder because in grief, we acknowledge the value of life as we do in no other scenario. We grieve because we love life, because we love those we have lost. We love the living. We know the value of humanity. That is what our grief means to us. And so we retake our humanity, we reclaim public space, and we reclaim this day from a genocidal administration with our grief and with our love, and with our refusal to allow those who are dying to go unacknowledged. We hold this space for them. We say their names. We honor them because they are part of us and we are part of them. And so long as they are dying, there is no justice for any of us. And so there shall be no peace for those who lead us.
I know that many of us are grieving a great deal in these times, and that our grief can at times feel all-consuming. Grief can cause us to shut down, retreat, or turn inward, but I want to remind us that there is power in grief. Because grief refuses the normalization of violence and loss. Our grief is a rejection of dehumanization. By grieving, we are refusing to devalue the lives of those we have lost, and we are refusing to become less human ourselves. We are refusing to sacrifice the parts of ourselves that are soft and permeable enough to facilitate human connection and mutual recognition. In our grief, there is hope for humanity, because in our grief, love and decency persist in the face of atrocity.
I urge you to make space for your grief and to nurture its power. As Rasha Abdulhadi teaches us, “If our hearts break, let them break outward into action."
Kelly Hayes from a speech they held at the 24-hour vigil for Gaza in Chicago, as quoted here: https://organizingmythoughts.org/must-reads-and-a-shutdown-for-gaza/?ref=organizingmythoughts-newsletter

"What might it be like if we did business, and everything else, as though we actually belonged to the living world?"
What do you think? Join us Wednesday as we explore these questions on Living Between Worlds, our monthly conversation for possibility. (You'll find the registration link in the posted article, below.)

Belonging to The Living World
For years—decades—the organizing principle of my work has been How can business prosper by embedding the laws of nature at the heart of enterprise? (Prosperity in the etymological sense of pro-spera, toward one's hope, toward thriving—as well as the modern sense of toward the money.)

"What might it be like if we did business, and everything else, as though we actually belonged to the living world?"
What do you think? Join us Wednesday as we explore these questions on Living Between Worlds, our monthly conversation for possibility. (You'll find the registration link in the posted article, below.)

Belonging to The Living World
For years—decades—the organizing principle of my work has been How can business prosper by embedding the laws of nature at the heart of enterprise? (Prosperity in the etymological sense of pro-spera, toward one's hope, toward thriving—as well as the modern sense of toward the money.)

"What might it be like if we did business, and everything else, as though we actually belonged to the living world?"
What do you think? Join us Wednesday as we explore these questions on Living Between Worlds, our monthly conversation for possibility. (You'll find the registration link in the posted article, below.)

Belonging to The Living World
For years—decades—the organizing principle of my work has been How can business prosper by embedding the laws of nature at the heart of enterprise? (Prosperity in the etymological sense of pro-spera, toward one's hope, toward thriving—as well as the modern sense of toward the money.)

When I use the latest technical gadgets the way the were intended to be used, I’m switching between feelings of living #ScienceFiction and the sadness caused of the state of most software.
The hardware is usually amazing, but what is it good for if I can only reliably use a small subset of what it can do?
Probably software is bad, because we always think we can fix it later. Hardwa…