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systems perspectives can empower us to see the interdependent whole and how we, individually and together, can then act to create a flourishing and fair world for all.

Daniel J. Siegel • IntraConnected

To address the challenges of our time, we must embrace complexity and work collaboratively across systems of diverse stakeholders, even and especially when the path forward is unclear.

David Ehrlichman • Impact Networks: Create Connection, Spark Collaboration, and Catalyze Systemic Change

to enable a complex systems perspective that is not myopically focused on climate change alone

Daniel Wahl • Designing Regenerative Cultures

It’s that the biggest threats lie in the networks of ideas, norms, and institutions that allow information to feed back (or not) on collective decisions and understanding.

John Brockman • Possible Minds: Twenty-Five Ways of Looking at AI

Whether the future is better or worse will depend on our actions. Like Girard, Thiel, believes that Western political philosophy cannot cope with global violence.

David Perell • Peter Thiel’s Religion

Instead of waiting for a shock to hit the community and then mobilizing a post-event response, the goal is to tackle challenges before they hit.

Joi Ito • The Social Labs Revolution

I believe the systems of influence documented throughout this series make cognitive sovereignty the defining human rights issue of our time, as they touch the very foundation of what makes us human—our capacity for autonomous thought and authentic selfhood.

Joshua Stylman • MKULTRA: The Hidden Hand | Part 4 - The Mirror

Perhaps the greatest “phase transition” in our thinking that such an approach could engender is the maturation in our willingness to live with relatively high levels of uncertainty in the domains of complex phenomena—and thus give up on ideas like complete “cures,” the elimination of “risk,” the design of perfect “stability,” and achieving total “s

Jessica C. Flack • Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019 (Compass)

Emergence to my friend Stephen Dinan, CEO of the Shift Network,