I have many inner personalities who converse with each other in my head. Mostly they get along fine and occasionally they fight. Recently, I’ve noticed how they’ve been pulling in different directions more than usual, as I try to make sense of and respond to the COVID-19 crisis. Everything goes…

Kill Your Ideas Early In a blog post by Peter Diamandis last weekend, he gave some hot tips on how to organise creativity. The advice is based on his work with semi-secret R&D facility Google X, or X as it’s called now. It’s an interesting read, and there was particularly one section which grabbed…

Who’s left out? — Every time we create a stakeholder model we exclude someone or something. We consciously or unconsciously decide that only some groups have something at stake — are holders of stakes, are affected by our actions, objectives and policies. According to Wikipedia; the stakeholder concept was first used in a 1963…

A question for systems geeks out there… I’m thinking about the relations of various bubbles we live in. A bubble with a living system within another living system. I am a living system of cells and organs within a larger ecosystem of other humans and organisms, for example my neighbourhood…

We currently see many articles about the the evils of capitalism, the end of capitalism and possible post-capitalism futures. I was invited to talk at the One Planet Anti-Conference a couple of weeks ago on the topic ‘whether or not capitalism can be transformed to “realize” that the earth is…

Norwegian peace researcher, sociologist and mathematician Johan Galtung has invented a method called TRANSCEND for conflict transformation by peaceful means. According to Galtung (and Wikipedia); “there are four traditional but unsatisfactory ways in which conflicts between two parties are handled: A wins, B loses; B wins, A loses; the solution…

I’m revisiting Maslow. And I realise this: Work is nowhere to be found in Maslow’s hierarchy! And I also realise what an incredible challenge this is for us in the Western developed world. Many important things are there in the hierarchy — like food, safety, creative activities, friends and prestige…

The image here was used for a recent Meetup for Stockholm Futurists. It’s a graphic representation of futurist Jim Dator’s four alternative futures archetypes; Continuation (a.k.a. growth, business-as-usual, all-is-fine, keep-calm-and-carry-on), Collapse (systemic failure on a massive scale) Discipline (simplicity, sustainability, fundamentalism) Transformation (radical shift of some sort) These archetypes seem…