Ideology and Company Culture

What is company culture? It it more than a combination of perks and team activities? We intuitively know that there is more to it than that, but how much more? All of it.

There are three levels of company culture, in descending order of influence…

The Social Identity Graph

Principles of Social Transformation

There is a hidden organizing system behind social networks that delineates their boundaries, opportunities for growth, and logic of attraction and repulsion of both people and content. This system is…

How to Change Righteous Minds

Here are some unorthodox ideas about how to save the world by changing people’s minds (their “righteous beliefs”) to be more open and inclusive. I call this collection of ideas the “Philosophy of Communion”.

Righteous beliefs and social…

Essay Concerning The Evolutionary Future of Humanity: Draft Book Chapter Summaries

The book (name and style TBD) is part science journalism, part new synthesis, part manifesto. Relevant books / authors that you might have read or heard of that are touchstones for this…

The Golden Rule and The Hero’s Journey

Introduction

In the vast tapestry of human evolution and cultural development, two guiding principles stand out as transformative forces: the Golden Rule and the Hero’s Journey. While the Golden Rule, with its emphasis on…

Communion: An Evolutionary Perspective

Or, Humanist Evolution to Live By

What whispers are these O lands, running ahead of you, passing 
under the seas?

Are all nations communing? is there going to be but one heart to 
the globe?

State of American Culture 2020

1. Today a fragmented society has locked itself structurally into a nihilistic cycle of social tribal threat, hate, or revenge when trying to pursue happiness.
2. We’re reduced to finding the larger meaning in our lives by dehumanizing social tribes…

1: Genesis

Creation is the emergence of standing waves in the whirlpool of the Universe as it explodes, constrained by cosmological constants, along a…

Humanity Contra Virus

I was watching The Matrix and pondering the scene where Agent Smith compares humanity to a virus.