Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
If legacy organizations are structurally constrained, then we need to nurture the new actors — ones willing to fail, to iterate and to take risks that can help spark major transformations. For this reason, I believe it is worth looking in more detail at lessons we might apply from the innovator’s dilemma.
Without urgent and equitable action to fund adaptation, the next decade will not only test our infrastructure; it will test our humanity. Adaptation is not charity; it is climate justice. And justice delayed will only deepen the loss.
How would a job guarantee disenshittify the labor market? The job guarantee means a “permanent, publicly provided employment opportunity to anyone ready and willing to work, it establishes an effective floor for the entire labor market.”
Post-partisan practice is not compromise; it’s a strategy for shared survival. Perhaps the path through this civilizational turning begins with a simpler question: What does this place need, and who else shares that need?
Whatever the obstacles, the waste and pollution we have collectively spewed into the global environment in the pursuit of convenience and profit isn’t going anywhere without some form of decisive and assertive action; perhaps the mentality of into eternity is the solution which may match this challenge.
And so we arrive at the guiding question: What inner, civilizational shift will enable us to break free from deepening destructive patterns of the past and begin to co-sense and co-shape the future that is calling us now, into being?
In this episode, Nate interviews Professor Ted Parson about solar geoengineering (specifically stratospheric aerosol injection) as a potential response to severe climate risks.
The current AI moment forces us to contemplate even more profound questions: Who are we as human beings? Why are we here? What are we here for? What is ours to do?
Political economists of the eighteenth and nineteenth century employed a curious phrase to denote the source of wealth at the base of the economy: the “free gifts of nature.” Alyssa Battistoni, a political science professor at Barnard College, believes that careful attention to the meanings of this phrase illuminates many aspects of the world we inhabit today.
In truth, I’m not massively optimistic that the new dark age will turn out too well for many people, but I think once one has appraised the reality of the surrounding darkness it’s always worth looking for the light as best one can and seeking least worst responses to our predicaments. Whether we find it or not is another matter.
COP30 is underway. It’s being called the ‘Adaptation COP’—the moment when the world finally faces the need to live within a changed climate. But let’s be honest: humanity isn’t preparing for crisis anymore. We’re already living through it.
In the last five years, my journey has produced significantly new perspectives (for me) which only serve to make the space delusion more strikingly fascinating and revealing. At this point, it’s hard to identify a phenomenon that so completely captures the religion of the day and its unhinged basis.
