3 years ago, I had some time on my hands, and so I did this. This has been sitting in “Draft” for the longest time, so I thought it was worth sharing. Just sharing this for the fun of it. Hope you enjoy it. === I dug through major news…

The issue of governance is a bigger question than about the structure and processes of government. This is not just about governmental processes, but about how people take care of each other, balancing between individual liberties and obligations, against collective effort. People taking care of each other — that’s the…

The story of us having multiple forms of capitals is a good way to start new stories about ourselves that might replace the over-emphasis on financial capitalism and its hold on us. The framework of multiple capitals provides a language to talk about the various kinds of wealth we hold. …

Although in this series I have focused on the multiple capitals as a key example of a different myth/goal/design intention, there actually are different ideas that get at similar things as well — namely, the need to include goals and ideologies other than capitalism. The idea of being The Good…

Although I had written about how futures, systems, and design could apply for the individual, I realised that I could not help but also write about how the individual interacts with the rest of society. The main way that we live out our lives is not by ourselves, but in…

I am coming to the conclusion that at the heart of large structural change is the change in identity. …

I take a break from the BIG things and complex systems to talk about the small big thing at the heart of many systems/environments/contexts - YOU! This is meant to be the third of three parts - looking at the individual through futures x systems x design perspectives. This third…