The evolution will not be commodified. The value is intrinsic, and there is no zero-sum game. But there is implicit cost everywhere. Currency is in units of curiosity, empathy, unity, and sentiment.

But the problem with problem-solving is the idea that a solution is an endpoint. There are no endpoints in complex systems, only tendrils that diffuse and reorganize situations…

I have spent long hours defending the possibility that attempting to solve a problem by going at it directly is only occasionally effective. I usually receive lost looks of bewilderment and a plea for a map, a method, and a technique. But, so often we make more of a mess than we ever imagined possible by seeking direct solutions. The problems we se

Mutual learning happens in the entropy; we need the confusion to release the new. This dance exists everywhere in nature. It is the swarm of confusion that becomes the grace of the way things come together.

I maintain that nothing could be more practical than to become more familiar with the patterns of movement that life requires. The goal is not to crack the code, but rather to catch the rhythm.

It is not difficult to see that delivery of data in graphs depicting statistical breakdown of the gathered information implies a methodology. What is not so obvious is the meta-message that life is clear and definable.

Apocalypse is a linear idea, and we do not live in a linear world.

Cultural confusion is the healthy recognition that there is more than one way to think about something.

Sometimes we call that context ‘the system,’ or we label it more specifically as a kind of system: the body, the university, the forest, the globe.