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Below is a fable for this moment. A great blessing – and curse – of the last half decade is how rug after rug is getting pulled out from under our certainties. It’s had many hashtags: #waterislife, #metoo, #blm, #climatestrike, #j6, #fires, #floods, #storms, …
Do you have a family member, or two, who don’t see eye to eye with you on politics? On masks? On Covid? On the dire necessity to reduce climate pollution? On the toll of slavery on the grandsons and daughters of slaves? On… just …
In 2017, I was on the speaking circuit for the FIRE (financial independence retire early) vast community of super smart, spreadsheet literate people working towards early retirement. Few understood the inner dimensions of the path they were on, and the obstacles/ opportunities ahead. I …
2020 took a big bite out of our complacency and our “it-can’t-happen-here” denialism. The shocks to our personal and global systems will reverberate for the rest of our lives. The harvest of these ruptures, though, begins now. We can’t leave it to powers that …
New word, fresh from the fertile backrooms of my mind: P’optimist: an optimist with a pinch of pessimism to stay real. or what about… Sk’optimists: optimists with a dash of skepticism to not get all giddy. Cy’optimists: cynical optimists who dare not hope anymore. Also …
Donald Trump was right. There is a swamp. It’s not the ballast of the entrenched bureaucracies in DC that administer our laws. It’s the physics of planetary limits that will inevitably suck our civilization down into the graveyard of those that have gone before. How …
In the last eight months, I’ve hosted over 30 interviews with “cultural scouts” – people who scan for emerging trends and act for the common good. Historians. Philanthropists. Authors. Lawyers. Movement builders. Trainers. Politicians. Activists, Mostly center left. All self-reflective. Again and again I asked …
George and Ira Gershwin, in 1937, wrote a song called “Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off” about a couple with irreconcilable differences, driving them apart. Like so many marriages going off the rails or on the rocks, the differences seem minor, but no one is …
“If you assume that there is no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, that there are opportunities to change things, then there is a possibility that you can contribute to making a …
Every day now I roll out of bed and go right to the high-performance morality gym. I have to. The multiple existential threats we face require moral dexterity, and as a Boomer I’ve gotten flabby. At the gym I train my mind, heart, body …
