If you want to take a shortcut, this blog is launching an explainer on vector theory of change—a theory of change for complex systems. *** Imagine standing at the base of a mountain. As you look up, the mist rises into a thick fog obscuring the terrain in front of you. You’re holding a map […]
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Fields of barley by jeremy lent A long time ago in the district of Song lived a farmer. His wife and sons worried about him because he was not, as they say, the sharpest tool in the shed. The farmer was concerned that his shoots of grain weren’t growing fast enough, so one day he
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I am pleased to announce The Post-Progressive Post’s publication of my most recent “Win-Win-Win” policy recommendation on Homelessness in the U.S. As a preview, here are the “three wins”—one for each major American worldview—that this Homelessness policy recommendation seeks to achieve: Progressivism’s wins The housing problems of practically all unhoused people would be addressed more
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We are pleased to announce The Post-Progressive Post’s publication of our most recent “win-win-win” policy recommendation on Homelessness in the U.S. https://post-progressive.org/issue-position/homelessness-in-the-u-s/ Please note that while this policy recommendation has already received prepublication comments from our Post-Progressive Alliance members, further input is requested from the public in the paper’s comments section. Your input would be greatly appreciated
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Autopoesis by jeremy lent The story of life’s deep purpose begins, ironically, with death. A certain kind of death: the ‘heat death’ that scientists tell us is the likely ultimate fate of the universe. In the nineteenth century Lord Kelvin formulated the Second Law of Thermodynamics, which describes how the universe is undergoing an irreversible
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The last three blog posts provided the core scaffolding for what I have been calling the Estuarine framework (pending getting a proper name for it). I’ve got a lot of work to flesh out the summary I provided in the last post, and also connect it with earlier material including a key post on the
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New uses for sensors are being created all the time; from marinas using them to increase safety by guiding yachts boats into place to taps in the public toilets. Animals are also being used as sensors. There’s a type of bird whose migration pattern can predict when hurricanes will hit months in advance. Estimates based
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I’ve got into the habit of tweeting a summit picture from each Wainwright summit as a part of my challenge to complete all 214 in less than 40 days. For those interested I’ve summarised the current status at the foot of this post. I have a clear end date – my 68th birthday on the
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The Institute for Cultural Evolution is a vibrant and growing nonprofit organization that needs and deserves your support. This year, as #GivingTuesday approaches on November 30th, we ask you to consider “giving upstream.” Giving upstream means donating to organizations that are working on the roots of our society’s problems. No matter which political issue concerns
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In the mid-2000s, the virtual world of the game Second Life was seen by many as a nascent metaverse, a term for virtual worlds coined by Neal Stephenson. Courtesy of Jin Zan CC-BY-SA-3.0 Sometime in the late 01980s or early 01990s, five-time Long Now Speaker Neal Stephenson needed a word to describe a world within
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