How to show up in an emergent system (versus complaining about it and making it worse) — I am learning as I go here, and I notice that Medium is learning, too. That’s the nature of complex, dynamic systems — they adapt in response to feedback. It’s kind of exciting when I think about it. It means that we readers create the conditions for a better reading…

How a reality-based approach highlights the difference — Business is masterful at messaging. Public affairs crews create simple, repeatable, easily understood soundbites. This is often a good thing. Life is complicated — we need help with complexity! But it is a problem when it means elements of complexity are cherry-picked — motivated by profit — to influence behaviours…

It’s 4.7 — Modern humans: literate on stuff, semi-literate on life Back when we modern humans* were cosmically young and immature, toddling into the early stages of perceiving a world beyond industrial captivity, we mostly thought in integers. Whole, simple, easy-to-remember numbers gained ground as attractive “answers”. And so the answer to Life, the Universe and Everything being pronounced as 42…

You see the madness, you’re not buying the endless growth narrative, and you want to help. Now what? — This is no time for recycling and double-sided printing If you read another sustainability report touting 25% emissions reductions by 2025 when you know what is needed was more than 100%, decades ago, along with a complete rethink of business’ relationship with the rest of the natural world that isn’t hyper-focused on carbon and is hyper-focused on supporting life…

My journey into cultivating Actual Intelligence (the other AI) — Looking up close at something, quietly and patiently, brings perspective. Drawing what we see brings even more perspective, because it requires us to translate across senses into new forms. I think of this as one way to cultivate Actual Intelligence, the more delicious of the AIs in this writer’s opinion. …

A glimpse of life as an inchoate reality-surfer riding waves of awe and ridicule — I peel back layers of reality to understand things that don’t make sense. Then I compare notes with others and share what I find out. This is how I seek a path towards healing our industrial system. I feel wedged between those who are way ahead of me on the…

Striding forth into the next level — Welcome to the latest Medium Short, a weekly accountability practice highlighting what I’m up to along the unmarked trail towards #IndustrialHealing. Reminder: all my Medium articles are linked for free here. I like running. I also like metaphors. Distance running is a darned good one: ‘possible’ is a state of…

Is there any another? — Welcome to the latest Medium Short, a weekly accountability practice highlighting what I’m up to along the unmarked trail towards #IndustrialHealing. Reminder: all my Medium articles are linked for free here. I found out this week that I might be a magical realist. Or rather, I discovered that there is…

Marathon training as if my imagination were in charge — This is what happens when a 50-something distance runner without a coach is left alone to dream herself back into marathoning. Or, when glute meets cheek in the burgeoning genre of #athleterotica. Or race-week mind games. You decide. I wake up with the first light, refreshed after a deep nine-hour…