Victor Cary

Sustainable success comes from small, parallel, safe-to-fail experiments and scaling only proven responses, rather than betting big on ambitious but rigid plans.

Strategy is the management of constraints to enable coherent action in a desired direction - amidst a plethora of inescapable tensions such as short vs. long, exploitation vs. exploration, control vs. autonomy, and so forth.

What’s a Protocol?

At the Wolf Willow Institute, our work begins with a simple premise: that complexity, consciousness, and ecological belonging are braided. We’re certain that navigating this civilizational inflection point requires more than care and cleverness - it demands a deep shift in consciousness. A move from linear control to relational at... See more

More worrisome, most of the policy design that goes on at the level of the State and international organizations sits comfortably within the same epistemic and cultural order that created the problems in the first place. How to go beyond the aporias caused by the fact that we are facing modern problems for which there are no modern solutions (Santo... See more

“The point is to inhabit the position, not the person,” Serpell writes. Instead of feeling someone’s pain, you try to grasp the larger mechanisms that cause someone to suffer.

Rawls and Arendt were preoccupied not with feeling but with fairness — an attempt to imagine the world one would want if one were born into a different situation.

For Arendt, forming an opinion was an active process of “making present to my mind the standpoints of those who are absent.”

Much of our success as a species derives from our ability to free ourselves from nature and the feedback loops that constrain other species – things like disease, climate, scarcity, predation, darkness, distance, gravity, etc. We’ve done the same thing in the social domain too, trading the enabling constraints of oral culture, kinship networks and ... See more