How Metaphor Shapes Our Experience of Reality
One might think that metaphors belong in poetry and literature. We tend to see them as decorative language; colorful ways of expressing ideas that could just as…
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Tending the Social Garden: living systems have their own agency
“If you can see patterns across systems, connect people across networks, and inspire culture toward a shared purpose, this is your moment in history.” When someone hears…
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Paleolithic Emotions with God-Like Power
Someone mentioned the following quote (usually attributed to E. O. Wilson) in an essay recently: “The real problem of humanity is that we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval…
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Does Meaning Even Matter?
Meaning Has Nothing to Do With Purpose. And I’m going to make a bold statement: Meaning is connection. If we look at what is meaningful in a…
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The Long Migration of Power
Given this crazy situation in which we find ourselves geopolitically and politically, how can one not spend a considerable amount of time thinking about the subject of…
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Let Community Service Be Your “Bling”
For a long time, I’ve noticed something that seems almost universal in communities that are struggling economically: status still matters. In many ways, it matters even more.…
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Is Being Too Comfortable Bad?
The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort to Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self by Michael Easter. Let’s take a look at the general ideas: Human beings evolved in conditions…
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Should Corporations Rule the World?
For most of human history, the idea that a corporation could become more powerful than a government would have sounded absurd. A corporation was supposed to be…
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The Community Memeplex
Much of my work is often described as community building, time co-ops, social capital, trust economies, mutual aid, mutual support, human capital, or social infrastructure. And those…
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Interesting Take on Dunbar’s Number
If you haven’t yet heard of Dunbar’s Number, here is a quick take from an article published in Cracked 18 years ago. Old but still relevant. David Wong’s…