I sat here last night experiencing ennui, feeling sadness that I can't magically fix the US Covid19 strategy debate. The "to lockdown more, or to not" binary is frustrating to me in that people just don't see how wrong the framing is. It'

Attended a group discussion call today with ~20 folks in the Adult Development community - coaches, a few academics, and a few amateurs like me. One topic was really relevant for me: "In service of finding a way to help the world deal with intractable issues, how might we

How much do "we" see how contextual our vocabulary is, and how much work are we willing to do to hear and understand each other? If you're in the USA and liberal, imagine a conservative says the word "rights". Or if you're

<Meta: Consolidating some bits floating in my environment - nothing novel, just integrating> I've spent the past five years doing system design involving 500-1000 people in a corporate org. I've also run a few ~30 person non-occupational groups in the last few years. And

I believe I'm out here livejournaling because I'm in a position and space of feeling secure and safe to do so. Seems like an "obvious when said" sentence, but I'm still appreciating the newness and the (IMHO) rareness of it. Most friends

What would it feel really good to have permission to do, or to do as much or as often as you wanted to? I mean "feel really good" in an integrated, holistic way, not like a vice that the larger you would regret, but rather feeling into the

* Red wants to blame Bill Gates, China, or the CIA for creating the virus * Blue wants to see the virus as God's judgement on the nations * Orange wants to calculate the QALYs and variolate the young * Green wants to save all lives through lockdown plus basic income * Yellow.

What is the best name for the skill of finding effective and elegant solutions inside a complex space that mostly involve social/organizational constructs? Constructs there include processes, practices, authority, responsibilities, decision-making definitions, agreements, incentives. Social/organizational could be large or small corporate, or any type of organization. Examples: * "

One of my recurring existential problem solving spaces is bouncing around in my head, so I'm just going to wander around in it. This is not guaranteed to be useful or coherent to anyone else. The locus of this space is designing a social organization that would be

A friend's prompt: "what is it about a national tragedy that brings out the worst in some?  It strikes me enough in this moment to say, "yeah, that's it exactly, that's why".  Because it's tragic and it's