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The Stupid Company or the Myth of Collective Intelligence?
People in organisations will always learn, but the only way learning can influence structures and communications in designed systems is if we hold spaces to re-design and co-design….
On How Society Loves to Predict, but It’s All Invented
It is very easy to get caught in the idea that society can predict things that will happen. Stories we tell in…
Ecological Communication | Niklas Luhmann
I read Luhmann’s Ecological Communication following my inquiry on the importance of building trust for a sustainable society. Searching the Web I…
Convergence and Contrast in Dialogue Conversations
From photography to music to dance, contrast seems to be a key component of the arts. When this was pointed out to…
Harvesting Online as a Collective Learning Practice
Another way of getting connected is to read the individual contributions of like minded people aggregated in one place. Many people have been selecting their own content by subscribing to feeds on Google Reader, for example, or using platforms to automatically or manually share articles, tweets and the like….
Do Not Expand Your View. Instead, Pay Attention.
One of the books I enjoyed reading as a kid was Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes. This was partly because of the…
Imaginal Cells | The Caterpillar’s Job to Resist the Butterfly
When I told Elisabet Sahtouris that we were having a retreat program called Butterfly Connection in her native Greece in 2009, she wrote back saying “it is interesting that your message downloaded right after I wrote two emails on butterfly metamorphosis.” Good timing!…
Building Trust for a Sustainable Society
A sustainable society relies directly on our ability to re-generate social participation and spaces to create and sustain trust within our communities. Even if natural systems are good metaphors for designed social systems, they might be misleading….
Speak the World: Creating Ourselves as We Speak
Monologues don’t exist. But sometimes we speak to ourselves, don’t we? And thinking? Isn’t it a kind of monologue? Some other times…
Searching for What is Truth at this Time | A Lesson from Václav Havel
Václav Havel passed away today. There is a great story I heard from a good friend who had the pleasure to meet…