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Blue Ocean Shoals

The different skills of non-reductive, systems thinking are aspects of a single approach that’s integrated into the single term “resonance.”

For Love Instead of Money

How we gain knowledge through struggle, danger, and fear. Learning in nature in pursuit of engagement.

Beginning With Networks

I’m interested in networks because I suspect they can describe aspects of nature beyond mathematics and sentences.

How I Seem to Be (Different)

I seem to be moving toward the realm of celebrities like Steven Kotler, Moran Cerf, Steven Pinker, and Joe Dispensa. This doesn’t mean I'll join them, just that I’m heading in that direction.

Happiness, Failure, and Grace

As Peter Drucker indicates, happiness, like money, comes when the system is working. You don’t aim for the money and you don’t aim for happiness, you aim to make the system work.

The Veil of Sanity

I believe happiness and success are dispensable accessories to spiritual balance. You don't need either, and their pursuit is a distraction.

The Assembly of Mind

Your mind is a collective but you don’t see it as a collective. You can’t see the parts because the parts are doing the seeing. We are fascinated to look at ourselves because it helps us imagine what we are.

Thinking, Time, and Identity

Many things come naturally to us, but thinking is not one of them. There are many forms of thinking. We are primarily taught only two: linear and emotional.

Creativity and Corporation

The creative process is something unto itself and, like love or excitement, it does not aim for resolution... Real creation is, at some level, self-creation and the tragedy of an idea’s failure is a personal one.

Healthy Business, Healthy Mind

If your actions are motivated by gratitude, honesty, and a desire to be of service then you probably won’t perpetrate aggression on others.

An Unusual Awareness

I’m feeling the panic, I have a situation, I have a resolution, but I don’t have a conclusion, and I’ve run out of time. Here is what I do in my hypnopompic state: I begin by sitting with it and then I go beyond that.

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