by Brian Eno — 🎼 An Ending (Ascent) by Brian Eno It was 1978. I was new to New York. A rich acquaintance had invited me to a housewarming party, and, as my cabdriver wound his way down increasingly potholed and dingy streets, I began wondering whether he’d got the address right. Finally he…

Amidst an era of perpetual disruption, an alternate set of values and capabilities is emerging from the entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs of a new insurgent paradigm — 🎼 After the Rain by Porya Hatami “Constantly regard the universe as one living being, having one substance and one soul, and observe how all things have reference to one perception, the perception of this one living being; and how all things act with one movement; and how all things…

How might we nurture new forms of enterprise where those who lead empower everyone to reach their full potential? — 🎼 Both Ticking by Kenji Kihara As businesses continue the much-needed shift towards valuing a more diverse range of capital beyond the exclusivity of financial profit, the personal qualities and characteristics demanded of those expected to navigate this complex transition will require similar course corrections. …

Unlearning the lessons from history repeating itself — 🎼 Immortality by Ana Roxanne This cosmos has come into existence as a living creature endowed with soul and reason… containing within itself all the living creatures which are by nature akin to itself. — Plato, Timaeus (c.360 BCE) If my understanding of our current predicament is sound, so the…

The infectious appeal of rational paranoia in an increasingly simulacratic world — 🎼 Dies Irae by Wendy Carlos & Rachel Elkind (from The Shining) “When I was a child, …I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see through a glass, darkly…” – 1 Corinthians 13, Bible When life becomes intelligent…

A daydream to avoid the waking paralysis of the real — 🎼 Memories of Green by Vangelis When forced awake from a vivid dream there’s a brief moment when you’re so convinced it was real, you struggle to re-adjust back to the waking reality. The dream you just departed feels as true as anything, while your brain is still catching up…

On transdisciplinarity, multipotentiality and omnidexterity in work — There’s a substack from Rishad Tobaccowala called “The Future Does Not Fit in the Containers of the Past”. That title alone expresses so much that feels broken with our contemporary experience. I don’t even need to read any of the content, you had me at “Container” Rishad. One of the…

Is AI leading us toward a techno-utopia, or a marginalised world of few winners and many losers? — As the battle lines are drawn and the pitchforks sharpened on AI forcing the creative industries into slave labour and redundancy with their dumb MacGuffin hype tools like ChatGTP, Stable Diffusion, etc, I find the archetypal camps of the techno-utopianists facing off against the inclusive ethical futurists really binary, polarised…

Follow the rules. Break the rules. Transcend the rules. — Shu (守) “When we learn or train in something, we pass through the stages of shu, ha, and ri… In shu, we repeat the forms and discipline ourselves so that our bodies absorb the forms that our forebears created. We remain faithful to these forms with no deviation.” — Endō Seishirō “protect”…