midwifing change
we’re caught in a liminal space that’s colored more by the war of the worlds than the transition between them. what might it mean to consider the space of the threshold — hospicing the old and midwifing the new?
midwifing change
The process of crossing the threshold is demanding for each and every one of us. When the cracks appear in a long-held belief, it causes anxiety and pain. As the certain world is replaced by great uncertainty, the risk is that we cling to what we know more than ever. The gravitational pull of the familiar exerts itself, no matter how dysfunctional
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“ The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters. ”
— Antonio Gramsci, philosopher, linguist, journalist, writer and politician, in Prison Notebooks
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While speaking at the Ai4 conference, the “godfather of AI” Geoffrey Hinton warned that superintelligent AI could outsmart or control humans.
He said humanity’s survival may depend on building AI systems with “maternal instincts” so they genuinely care for humans.
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instagram.comNavigating the space between stories puts us up for an immense challenge. We must seek the others to find hope and support when that which we love falls away, rediscover how to grieve for what we lose and praise what is lost, and learn how to remain alive in the face of death. To not resist being wholly taken by awe at the birth of spring, because... See more
Niels Devisscher • Belonging and Butterflies in Times of Breakdown
In these times of transitions, of systems shifts, of collapse and erosion, of unravelling - of so much no longer making sense, or seeming to work - we think that the shape of tomorrow will be in part determined by the richness and health of the compost from which seeds of the future grow. This means paying as much attention to endings as we do to
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