Purposefulness

Whenever we elect a goal to be important — which is to say, whenever we decide that something shall be a goal — then we automatically create a private (or ‘self-centred’) world. This is such an utterly ubiquitous thing, and yet we never see it. This is something every one…

I’ve been living on my own for about seven weeks now. I volunteered with an NGO that sent me to a remote village in my country to work as a teacher ( I live in Ghana by the way). This was my first time being so far from home. It…

There are two modes in which we human beings can exist, so to speak — one being the spontaneous mode and the other the purposeful one. These are like the ‘two gears’, so to speak. These are the only two gears we’ve got. When we are in Purposeful Mode then…

In a network, we play^n to win^n. — Play^n: Life and Signs How do we gather and hold (re)generative space, conducive to life and signs and paths: emerging, unfolding, communicating, cultivating and co-evolving? Old Paradigm: Control (institutions) and Greed (markets) Wicked problems co-extensive with incommensurable social constructs, eg TIMN: Tribes, Institutions, Markets and Networks. …