Light Library - Light Leadership

On Thinking and Simulated Thinking

Jordan Greenhall

February 16, 2008

I would like to explore what I think is a useful distinction between “thinking” and a quite different phenomenon that might be best referred to as a “simulation of thinking”.

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Mutiny of the Soul

Charles Eisenstein

October 7, 2008

A Croatian translation of this article can be found here, a Finnish version here, and a German version here. It is also available in Hungarian. Depression, anxiety, and fatigue are an essential part of a process of metamorphosis that is...

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Management Must Be Reinvented

Gary Hamel

December 30, 2008

Innovation and strategy expert Gary Hamel shares his view that "management" itself needs to be reinvented in order to accomodate the new needs of business. As technology has evolved and productivity has increased at...

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Start with Why

Simon Sinek

May 11, 2010

Simon Sinek presents a simple but powerful model for how leaders inspire action, starting with a golden circle and the question "Why?" His examples include Apple, Martin Luther King, and the Wright brothers --...

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Reinventing The Tech of Human Accomplishment

Gary Hamel

May 22, 2011

Watch Gary Hamel, celebrated management thinker and author and co-founder of the Management Innovation eXchange (MIX), make the case for reinventing management for the 21st century. In this fast-paced, idea-packed, 15-minute video essay, Hamel...

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A New Story of the People

Charles Eisenstein

April 6, 2013

“A New Story of the People” examines the role that stories play in how we think about ourselves and each other and offers a glimpse at a new emerging story that can help bring...

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The Psychological Price of Entrepreneurship

Jessica Bruder

September 25, 2013

Editor's Note: This article won an award in the Magazine Personal Service category in the 2014 Annual Awards Contest of the Deadline Club, the New York City chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. By all counts and measures,...

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Creating a Future for All of Us

Lynne Twist

November 27, 2013

For more than 40 years, Lynne Twist has been a recognized global visionary committed to alleviating poverty and hunger and supporting social justice and environmental sustainability. From working with Mother Teresa in Calcutta to...

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Personhood: A Game for Two or More Players

Kevin Simler

July 7, 2014

Pardon me while I scratch a little itch here in public. I'd like to describe for you a concept that I can see very clearly in my mind. I can't entirely justify its existence or...

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The Coming Great Transition

Jordan Greenhall

November 24, 2014

Our global civilization is currently undergoing a tremendous set of transitions that will ultimately result in the dismantling of much of the way that we currently live and the construction of a new “civilization...

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Constructing a New Narrative

Jordan Greenhall

February 5, 2015

We are in the process of trying to cultivate a new world. This is a daunting process and oftentimes it seems absurdly ill considered. Yet, reflectionconsistently indicates that it is our task whether we like it...

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Lean and Agile Adoption of Laloux Culture Model

Agile4All

March 20, 2015

See agileforall.com/2015/04/laloux-cultural-model-and-agile-adoption/ for more info. Contact me at peter.green@agileforall.com, or twitter @tptman. Using the culture model described in Fredric Laloux's book Reinventing Organizations, we examine why lean and agile adoption efforts often struggle to realize their...

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Attaching Ourselves to a Well-being Economy: Non-rivalrous techniques of Generativity

Jordan Greenhall

April 29, 2015

Jordan Greenhall is co-founder, former CEO, and current chairman of the Board of DivX Inc., the San Diego company behind the digital data compression application DivX that enabled reasonable quality video transmission over the...

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Self-Awareness: Know Yourself

Gary Vee

May 22, 2015

Gary Vaynerchuk is a serial entrepreneur and the CEO and founder of VaynerMedia, a full-service digital agency servicing Fortune 500 clients across the company’s 5 locations. Gary is also a prolific public speaker, venture...

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Complex Adaptive Systems - Self-Organization

Complexity Labs

June 2, 2015

In this video we will be talking about the process of self-organization within complex adaptive systems and the dynamic interplay between order and entropy that is thought to be required to enable it, we...

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The Future of Organization

Jordan Greenhall

August 11, 2015

Human organizational models have long been limited to a small set of effective approaches. For small organizations with fewer than thirty or forty members we have been able to effectively coordinate group behaviour in...

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How Self-Organization Happens: And why you can trust it

Bonnitta Roy

January 25, 2016

Values drive all organizational life If you pay attention throughout the day, you will see that your thoughts are constantly floating on waves of shifting values. While your thoughts govern your conscious actions, the underlying values...

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An Open Architecture for Self-Organization

Bonnitta Roy

January 31, 2016

There are three main reasons why organizations are looking for alternative architectures: 1. Agile companies are wanting to scale without losing their agility 2. Large centralized companies are wanting to become more agile — trim management and bureaucratic...

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Bitcoin as an Experiment in Self-Organizing Collective Intelligence

Jordan Greenhall

February 16, 2016

There have been a lot of conversations about Bitcoin over the years. Is it a currency or an equity or a commodity? Is it a store of value? Is it a “settlement mechanism”? Is...

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Top-Down Solutions Like Holacracy Won’t Fix Bureaucracy

Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini

March 22, 2016

For all its enemies, bureaucracy is amazingly resilient. Since 1983, the number of managers, supervisors, and support staff employed in the U.S. economy has nearly doubled, while employment in other occupations has grown by...

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Social Coherence and Collective Intelligence

Heartmath

May 29, 2016

Researchers understand that high levels of personal coherence in individuals often result in an exceptional states like clarity of thought and emotional composure. Social coherence is a state in which groups of people –...

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Simon Sinek and Marc Coleman on the Future of Work

Simon Sinek

June 4, 2016

Marc Coleman Founder & CEO of UNLEASH talks to Simon Sinek about the C21 leadership crisis, performance and purpose holocracy and new models for work at UNLEASH Conference & Expo at ExCel London (Formerly...

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The Way We Learn Today is Just Wrong

Peter Diamandis

June 20, 2016

From A's to Angry Birds In the traditional education system, you start at an "A." And every time you get something wrong, your score gets lower and lower. In the gaming world, it's just the opposite. You...

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Emergence Talk @ Garden of Eden

Daniel Schmachtenberger

August 29, 2016

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Millenials in the Workplace

Simon Sinek

October 29, 2016

Excerpt of Simon Sinek from an episode of Inside Quest.

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How to Change The World Properly

Jordan Peterson

November 9, 2016

Young people want, rightly, to change the world. But how might this be properly done? Dr Jonathan Haidt recently contrasted Truth University with Social Justice University. Social Justice U has as its advantage the...

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Situational Assessment

Jordan Greenhall

January 25, 2017

In 2015, I took a swing at assessing the shape and state of our global challenges. Looking back, that essay is still well worth a read, but it is high time for an update. While...

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Life’s economy is primarily based on collaborative rather than competitive advantage

Daniel Christian Wahl

February 1, 2017

A holistic understanding of modern evolutionary biology suggests that life evolves by a process of diversification and subsequent integration of diversity through collaboration (John Stewart in BioSystems, 2014). As our focus shifts from individuals...

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Collaboration and empathy as evolutionary success stories

Daniel Christian Wahl

February 26, 2017

We are life. We are nature. We are Universe. Self-reflexive consciousness allows us different perspectives on this ever-transforming and evolving whole we participate in — this all that we are reflections of. We bring forth a...

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Cut The Bullshit- Organizations with no Hierarchy Don't Exist

Francesca Pick

March 3, 2017

Do completely horizontal organizations truly exist? Fueled by growing excitement about self-management, bossless leadership and new governance models such as Holacracy, I increasingly hear large claims about the potential of “flat organizations”, which are...

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Understanding the Blue Church (Deep Code)

Jordan Greenhall

March 30, 2017

In my Situational Assessment: 2017, I quoted a post from Reddit: “The Blue Church is panicking because they’ve just witnessed the birth of a new Red Religion. Not the tired old Christian cliches they defeated...

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Management Theory is Dead. Here's Why.

Nick Jankel

March 31, 2017

The world is volatile. Change is fast and furious. Data sets are imperfect. Markets are saturated and systems stressed. In this new normal, no product, process or person stays successful for long. This is...

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Joe Rogan interviews Jordan Peterson - talk on Aperspectival Madness in Green

Jordan Peterson

May 10, 2017

Jordan Peterson is a clinical psychologist and tenured professor of psychology at the University of Toronto.

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Collaborative consumption and peer-to-peer collaboration

Daniel Christian Wahl

August 17, 2017

The field of collaborative consumption is one of the areas of social innovation that most excites me. Rachel Botsman and Roo Rogers (2011) offer an introduction to this rapidly evolving approach to participatory culture...

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Experience Tribe: The Transition

Jordan Greenhall, Daniel Schmachtenberger, Forrest Landry

August 20, 2017

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New Hope for Humans in an A.I. World

Louis Rosenberg

September 8, 2017

Imagine a global "Hive Mind" that can tap the knowledge, wisdom, insights, and intuitions of millions of people, and produce a super-intelligence that is much smarter than any individual person. A new technology called...

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FutureThinkers Podcast - Episode 46 - Winning Humanity's Existential Game

Daniel Schmachtenberger

October 2, 2017

This is our fourth episode with Daniel Schmachtenberger, and as every other time, it left us fascinated and inspired. Daniel is the co-founder of Neurohacker Collective and founder of Emergence Project, a futurist think tank. This is probably our favourite...

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7 Thoughts On Crypto After Three Months Down The Rabbit Hole

Lou Kerner

October 8, 2017

Everyone’s ADD, including me. I get attracted by shiny objects. I first noticed Bitcoin as a shiny object in mid-2013. I went down the rabbit hole far enough for The Wall Street Journal to...

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Catastrophic and Existential Risks

Daniel Schmachtenberger

October 11, 2017

Critical Factors Radical unpredictability Anthrocomplexity, multi-system complexity, far-from equilibria complex/ chaotic systems, new (not well understood) technologies, exponential rates of change, unmonitorable distributed catastrophic technology. Broken information ecology: mostly disinformation, intentional disinformation, actual signal intentionally obscured, critical...

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Higher Dimensional Thinking, the End of Paradox, and a More Adequate Understanding of Reality

Daniel Schmachtenberger

October 11, 2017

Think about the way a 3 dimensional object would look from the perspective of a 2 dimensional planar reality. Lets imagine a cylinder. If the plane crossed the cylinder perpendicular to its axis, the...

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Advancing Human Sovereignty

Daniel Schmachtenberger

October 11, 2017

Sovereignty relates to the capacity for and demonstration of good (omni-positive) choice-making. We define sovereignty more formally as the product of sentience, intelligence, and agency. Sentience relates to one’s ability to sense the world (including inner...

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New Economics Series - Part III - When the System Is the Source of the Problems - Case Studies

Daniel Schmachtenberger

October 11, 2017

Insofar as economics plays a role in coordinating collective human activity, it can be thought of as a type of collective intelligence system. If that system misaligns the direction of coordination with any aspect...

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"A new theory of consciousness: the mind exists as a field connected to the brain "

Tara MacIsaac

October 11, 2017

The United States joined freedom activists on Feb. 26 to dismiss the results of Cuba's national referendum—which was orchestrated ...

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Ray Kurzweil and Peter Diamandis Webinar

Ray Kurzweil and Peter Diamandis

October 14, 2017

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Collective Intelligence is the Root of Human Progress

Raya Bidshahri

October 16, 2017

Many of us intuitively think about intelligence as an individual trait. As a society, we have a tendency to praise individual game-changers for accomplishments that would not be possible without their teams, often tens...

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In Shadow

Lubomir Arsov

November 2, 2017

Embark on a visionary journey through the fragmented unconscious of the West, and with courage face the Shadow. From Shadow. Powerful video showing our total enslavement, on all levels. meds, drugs, money, work, political powers,...

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Biomimicry Design Explained

Vox

November 10, 2017

Japan’s Shinkansen doesn’t look like your typical train. With its long and pointed nose, it can reach top speeds up to 150–200 miles per hour. It didn’t always look like this. Earlier models were rounder...

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Blockchain Governance: Programming Our Future

Fred Ehrsam

November 27, 2017

This post describes why blockchain governance design is one of the most important problems out there, its critical components, current approaches, potential future approaches, and concludes with suggestions for the community. Why Blockchain Governance Matters As...

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Token Sales Visualization

Max Galka

December 12, 2017

How big is the ICO (aka token sale) market really? It seems like this should be an easy question to answer. After all, blockchains are open data layers that contain a complete record of every transaction ever...

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FutureThinkers Podcast - Episode 47 - Why We Need Collective Intelligence During Global Collapse

Jordan Greenhall

December 12, 2017

If it looks like we love the folks from Neurohacker Collective, that’s because we do. This time we’re bringing on the co-founder and CEO Jordan Greenhall, after featuring his fellow co-founder Daniel Schmachtenberger in four Future Thinkers episodes....

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New Economics Series: Part IV: Overlapping Models Exploring the Nature and Evolution of Economics

Daniel Schmachtenberger

December 14, 2017

Ecology to Economy: It’s reasonable to say that what we call economics started with agriculture and the plough.1 In the hunter gatherer world before that, there was no meaningful surplus possible (the foods available were...

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FutureThinkers Podcast - Episode 48 - Sovereignty in Chaos

Jordan Greenhall

December 29, 2017

This is the second half of our interview with Jordan Greenhall of Neurohacker Collective, where he gets into the practical solutions to avoid the global collapse. Game of Thrones and Climate Change Game of Thrones is one great pop...

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"Damn Girl, You’ve Got a High AQ Why Adaptability is More Important Than IQ and EQ"

Natalie Fratto

January 1, 2018

I often think the near future — say 2045 — might look something like this: On the walk back from her high school, Max drops by the corner bodega to pick up a NeuroStim pill — a prescription neuro-plasticity stimulator. She’ll...

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We Are From The Future

Max Marmer

January 2, 2018

At our community New Years Eve party of about 100 people I was invited to perform in what turned out to be my first live dance performance. I’ll share the video of the live performance...

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Truth in the Time of Chaos: Full Documentary

Jordan Peterson

January 5, 2018

Psychologist and professor Jordan Peterson has come to fame, or notoriety depending on your perspective, over the last year. But many of those who found him through his criticisms of political correctness are saying...

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Jordan Peterson debate on the gender pay gap, campus protests and postmodernism

Jordan Peterson

January 17, 2018

Channel 4 News’ full, fiery interview with clinical psychologist and professor Jordan B Peterson, whose views on gender have amassed great controversy - and a huge online following. He discusses the pay gap, patriarchy...

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Situational Assessment 2018: the Calm Before the Storm

Jordan Greenhall

February 1, 2018

This series began in 2015 with an effort to do a broad assessment of the various risks present in the total global environment. Last year (almost precisely 365 days ago), I focused specifically on...

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Why Your Organization is an Emotional Deadzone

Gary Hamel

February 2, 2018

Management was invented by engineers and accountants, and it shows. Too many organizations view human beings as mere “resources”. Until this changes our organizations will be less energetic, less creative and less resilient than...

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Why Experimentation Beats Prediction

Gary Hamel

February 2, 2018

In a world of head-snapping change, planning is near impossible. To stay relevant, organizations must learn a lesson from biological evolution: experiment relentlessly and let the best ideas win.

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Why We Need a Revolution of The Mind in Management

Gary Hamel

February 2, 2018

At its core, virtually every large organization is a bureaucracy. That’s a problem, because bureaucracies are poorly suited to a world of head-snapping change, unconventional competitors and omnipotent customers. Few of us, though, can...

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Why Change Management is an Oxy-Moron

Gary Hamel

February 2, 2018

Most change programs are belated, convulsive and ineffective. The solution: change programs that are built from the bottom up, give everyone a voice, and are emergent rather than engineered.

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The Rivalrous and the Anti-Rivalrous | Deep Code Experiment: Episode 2

Jordan Greenhall

February 14, 2018

I've long considered this conceptual distinction to be one of the most important and least considered in the current environment. I hope this video is at least some what clear. For sure, it raises...

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“A Glitch in the Matrix” — Jordan Peterson, the Intellectual Dark Web & the Mainstream Media

Jordan Peterson

February 16, 2018

Journalist David Fuller made the first full documentary about Jordan Peterson, and also used to work at Channel 4 News as producer and reporter for over a decade. He takes a close look at...

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FutureThinkers Podcast - Episode 49 - Decentralized Governance and Identity

Daniel Jeffries

February 26, 2018

Today on the show we have Daniel Jeffries, who recently came to prominence because of his Medium articles on blockchain and philosophy. Dan is an author, futurist and thinker. He writes science fiction novels, short...

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Dominance and Prestige Hierarchies- Episode 15

Jordan Greenhall

March 23, 2018

Humans differ from other hominids in that we seem to be hard-wired to seek and give something Joseph Henrich called "prestige" to individuals who seem to have their act together. This might be the...

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What is the Problem with Social Media

Jordan Greenhall

March 23, 2018

It appears that at long last the popular sentiment seems to be boiling with enough intensity to (maybe) do something about the problem of social media. Good. It is high time. But, even if it turns...

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Monkeys' brains synchronize as they collaborate to perform a motor task

Duke University Medical Center

March 29, 2018

"""Measuring ICS in humans could also reveal how well groups work together, and even what types of training improve their brain synchrony and teamwork....This could be valuable for any social task that requires the...

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FutureThinkers Podcast - Episode 50 - Daniel Jeffries - The Evolution of Systems and the Meaning of life

Daniel Jeffries

March 31, 2018

Exposing ourselves to different ideologies The use of killer robots is the idea Dan has been preoccupied with lately, ever since he saw a semi-fictional video about drones with precision-guided missiles and facial recognition. In order to...

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Emerge Podcast - Soveriegnty, Resonance and Liminality

Jordan Greenhall

April 18, 2018

A podcast based inquiry into the next phase of the human experiment.

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Crypto Beyond Capitalism: The Rise of Distributed Valerism

Matthew Pirkowski

April 25, 2018

Welcome to the first installment of a long form essay — or short book — outlining my macro perspective on how the emerging crypto ecosystem fits within the greater context of biological, cultural, and economic evolution. I intend...

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Epigenetics and Evolution: Bettering Yourself and Humanity

Bruce Lipton

May 2, 2018

For too long, many people have thought that their destiny was controlled by their genes. With advances made in epigenetics, we now know that isn’t the case. Dr. Bruce H. Lipton joins Collective Insights...

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The War on Sensemaking | Deep Code Experiment: Episode 22

Jordan Greenhall

May 4, 2018

What happened when science, economy and the military industrial complex changed focus from making faster plans and bigger bombs to pushing the envelope on the front of deception, manipulation and psyops?

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Crypto Beyond Capitalism: Part 2: Money, Utility, and the Symbolic Abstraction of Value

Matthew Pirkowski

May 5, 2018

This is the second installment of a long form essay — or short book — outlining my macro perspective on how the emerging crypto ecosystem fits within the greater context of biological, cultural, and economic evolution. I intend...

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Reinventing Orgs Map

Itamar Goldminz

May 9, 2018

This beautiful diagram was put together by the folks at the Reinventing Organizations Map Facebook group. I covered in Frederic Laloux’s book Reinventing Organizations in a couple of posts way back in 2014:

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February 22, 2019

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February 22, 2019

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The Gene Keys

Richard Rudd

February 25, 2019

Particularly Gene Key 55 is a great overview of the whole human story.

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Introduction to Spiral Dynamics

Ian MacDonald

February 25, 2019

This was the resource we were provided with for the Avalon pre-reading

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The Soul of Money

Lynne Twist

February 25, 2019

This book allowed us all to get into a shared reality about the nature of money right at the beginning

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Letting Go - The Pathway to Surrender

David Hawkins

February 25, 2019

This book followed up from Power vs Force and confirms a lot of how we operate

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Power vs Force

David Hawkins

February 25, 2019

The Map of Consciousness is helpful here and a recognition that different emotions have different frequencies of energy and that as we rise in our energetic frequency we have an exponential effect.

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Trump and a Post-Truth World

Ken Wilbur

February 25, 2019

The election of Donald Trump is an evolutionary self-correction that has been decades in the making — a backlash against the failure of the leading edge of consciousness (postmodernism and pluralism) to acknowledge the...

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Reinventing Organizations

Frederic Laloux

February 25, 2019

This was the first introduction to spiral dynamics with respect to the stages of development and organisational design - it helped us to get clear on what was needed for a truly Teal Organisation.

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What Matters Now

Gary Hamel

February 25, 2019

This was one of the first books we read that informed our three values of: Transparency, Participation and Meritocracy - we also spoke to Gary Hamel directly at that time.

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Gathering of the Tribe

Charles Eisenstein

February 25, 2019

It's in the Book - The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible (at the end) "The extract is really powerful to explain the larger picture of how we're waking up and coming together...

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Article on cleaning up, growing up, waking up

Ken Wilbur

February 25, 2019

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Why Freedom and Control Aren't The Trade Offs We Think They Are

Gary Hamel

March 20, 2019

In our personal lives, we are masters of paradox, but at work we are often not trusted to balance competing objectives. This must change. We need organizations where freedom and control coexist and where...

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Give it Away and It Will Come Back

Alan Watts

March 20, 2019

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Covee

March 20, 2019

Solving complex data-driven problems requires a lot of teamwork. But, of course, teamwork is typically restricted to companies where everyone is working under the same roof. While distributed teams have become commonplace in tech...

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Aragon

March 20, 2019

Aragon One AG is a Swiss company that encompasses the foundational team working on the Aragon project

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Colony

March 20, 2019

This is Colony. A platform for open organizations.

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BlockV

March 20, 2019

"BLOCKv is introducing a system where cryptos will not only just remain virtual in nature, but can also adopt values in the form of collectibles, coupons, loyalty programs, gift cards and more. This is an...

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Holochain

March 20, 2019

Arthur Brock and Tammy Lea Meyer touch base on the status of the projects Arthur and his team are stewarding. Exciting progress, and stay tuned for Holo, a distributed server application for hosting holochain...

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Accord Project - Legal Standards for Smart Contracts

March 20, 2019

The Smart Legal Contracts Stack Open source software tools for legally enforceable smart contracts

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The Venus Project

March 20, 2019

It is now possible to have everyone on Earth enjoy a very high standard of living with all of the amenities that a prosperous civilization can provide. This can be accomplished through the intelligent...

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Cicada Platform

March 20, 2019

This paper outlines a revolutionary, open source, decentralized application platform (DAPP) along with its first major application, a distributed direct democracy (DDD). To create something scalable enough to run an entire nation with no...

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