Victor Cary

Identity need not be constructed through classification. We are not reducible to single categories. Human beings live complex, intersectional, overlapping lives. Identity can be constructed instead through relation—through the verb of communing, through the practices of living, working, and caring together.

In this mode, identity is not fixed but... See more

Because when you train artificial intelligence on a world soaked in inequity, saturated with bias, and riddled with disinformation, you don’t get fairness. You get injustice at scale. You don’t get objectivity. You get bias with an interface. You don’t get solutions. You get systems that do harm faster, deeper, and with more plausible deniability... See more

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... See more

Leadership wasn’t just an act inside a system. It was a way of tuning the system itself. Through presence. Through phrasing. Through timing.

A heuristic can be thought of as a “simple rule” or mental shortcut that helps us to remember what’s core, to solve problems and to make judgments quickly and efficiently. Simple rules help distill more detailed content/process to a mental habit. Simple rules not only help produce better decisions, they also allow one to synchronize their... See more

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.

cognition isn’t an abstract process happening in our heads, but inseparable from our physicality and our environment. All our mental concepts come from our bodies, and understanding what that really means that can help us reconnect to authentic conversations, re-establish trust in the social contract, and kick-start cultural evolution.