I came of age in an internet tribe. It was the 1990s. Internet tribalism, loft living and a lot of long haul train travel connected me to an amazing network of some of the smartest, most vivid, most alive people I’d ever met. Creative magic happened, adventures were had, communities were built, lives were changed, [...]
Read more →The Future We Deserve is a book about the future which I am working on with a group of friends, new and old, mostly from Twitter. The purpose of the book is really simple – it’s to show lots and lots of great perspectives on the future, and to showcase the power of collaboration to [...]
Read more →Introduction I was recently asked if I had hope for the world. I do. There are lots of reasons why, but the three biggest areas are breakthroughs in energy, fuel and food production. These are not all technologies, but they are often technologies. Have a read and see what you think. Energy 1>Nanosolar Nanosolar has [...]
Read more →Bonnie Branch Middle School built a great hexayurt to raise funds for Haiti. Great stuff.
Read more →Talk slides (PDF) Lovely video. Professional quality which makes a nice change.
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Read more →I recently pestered my friend Noah Raford to summarize his understanding of Cynefin and complexity in a single page document. Noah called it the Strategic Complexity Framework. I, being still a bit dyslexic, can never keep the “simple, complicated, complex, chaotic” thing from Dave Snowdon‘s Cynefin framework straight in my head. And I think about [...]
Read more →(this post was originally called “a little intellectual history.”) A thing of any importance is discovered at least three times. In the 1980s I was a bright young thing. Several of my teachers had identified me as a once-in-a-lifetime student, but I had no idea what I wanted to do. Physics was the obvious course, [...]
Read more →1. Spiritual Politics is the art of the impossible. India, South Africa, America. 2. Spiritual Politics will cost you your life, metaphorically and in many cases literally. 3. If you have any choice in the matter, you have not passed. 4. The spiritual politician is both all powerful (as god) and powerless (before all others, [...]
Read more →A “force multiplier” increases the relative effectiveness of a fighting force. A gun, for example, is a force multiplier. Infrastructure is a land multiplier. For example, at five people per acre, about the maximum possible sustinable density for high intensity organic agriculture, Greater London can support about 1/4 of its current population. Therefore the “land [...]
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