Small Arcs of Larger Circles: Framing through other patterns

They need a sci-fi grandmother—wise with humanity and rich with intuition, but a warrior of the digital, and adept in urban professionalism.

We might inquire more broadly (while at the same time trying to change policy)—what kind of civilization we want to live in.

Since our culture has a penchant for mechanistic thinking, it will seek mechanistic versions of systems thinking. And, conversely, since our culture seeks to fill the hole that science dug where religion used to hold the soil in place, unrigorous forms of systems thinking will offer explanation through mystery. In both cases, what is lost is the ab

A clarity without ambiguity is one in which we are all asking the wrong questions.

otherwise. I thought that since we came from the same culture and spoke the same language we would and should have less confusion about one another’s intentions. On closer inspection, this was not the case at all.

Acute situations require action, Based in swift clear decision, Made in the muck and dripping with it, What will be—pulling into place. Below, in the squish of life, There is no replacement part, Nothing to solve. But we can breathe in the mess.

We cannot after all vote on the board or rewrite corporate policy from the sidelines. We cannot impose transformation on the institutions. But we can change our relationship to them.

The models, graphs, and charts that communicate this methodology carry ‘fact’ packaged in such a way that its authority is unquestionable. It says, “this is serious,” “this is how things are done,” and most insidious, “this is how life works.”

‘How is this symmathesy learning to make sense of its world?’

Anyone’s heart is liable to be broken open by the simple poetry of the many entanglements captured in a single blink.