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…

Even not knowing, still we keep going — Welcome to the latest Medium Short, a weekly accountability practice highlighting what I am reading, writing, and doing along the unmarked trail towards #IndustrialHealing. This is a personal update — my (debatably) more professional writing is freely available through this link. I feel more certain than ever that everything is…

Assessing a global meat company in an economy serving life — Continuing the journey towards an economy working in service of life, I recently rounded the corner on the Matereality assessment of JBS, one of the world’s largest food companies. Purveyors of diversified animal and plant proteins, leather, biodiesel, and more, JBS have outsized influence on life as we know it…

A week of baring my work into deafening silence — Welcome to the latest Medium Short, a weekly accountability practice highlighting what I am reading, writing, and doing along the unmarked trail towards #IndustrialHealing. This is a personal update — my (debatably) more professional writing is freely available through this link. I worked as a nude model for the Fine…

Giving life to human details among the TLDR slideware — If there’s one thing I know, it’s that investment analysts aren’t going to read an 80-slide deck from a total stranger. Even if it contains useful insights about the company they’re analyzing. And even if, as one industry commenter said on LinkedIn, it offers — […] exceptionally powerful dot connections…

The ones that give me goosebumps and make me cry — Welcome to the latest Medium Short, a weekly accountability practice highlighting what I am reading, writing, and doing along the unmarked trail towards #IndustrialHealing. This is a personal update — my (debatably) more professional writing is freely available through this link. I had the great fortune to work with an…