Seeing AND Using the Energy System of Polarities I first learned about rip currents when my family moved from Wheaton, Illinois to Sarasota, Florida during high school. Rip currents form where waves break onto the shore from opposite directions and the returning water finds a narrow channel back out to sea. From the beach, the surface [...]
See the Series Introduction for Just Tao It, Part I: HERE See the Just Tao It Series Introduction Tao/It on-ramp, PART II: HERE See Just Tao It, Chapter 1: HERE The unforced finisher, Is It. Much unfolds, With less effort. If leaders Followed It. — There’s a pollinator garden at Kayser Ridge that took years to settle into [...]
Why the Future Depends on Our Capacity to Leverage Polarities There is a dangerous misunderstanding spreading across the United States right now. Watch what happens when a city council debates a zoning change. Or when a school board discusses curriculum. Or when Congress attempts to pass legislation. Increasingly, citizens do not show up to engage with [...]
Strengthening uniquely human capacities in accelerating systems I’ve spent much of my professional life working across what initially appeared to be very different domains: executive coaching, team coaching, organization development, polarity thinking, leadership development, democracy work, systems thinking, and more recently the implications of artificial intelligence. For years I treated many of these as adjacent disciplines. [...]
See the Series Introduction for Just Tao It, Part I: HERE See the Just Tao It Series Introduction Tao/It on-ramp, PART II: HERE See Just Tao It, Chapter 1: HERE From my interpretation of the Tao Te Ching, Chapter 16 (Unpublished): Watch, listen, and be Empty space. Stillness returns Serenity. Without the wellspring, Life narrows. Reckless movement growing, [...]
See the Series Introduction for Just Tao It, Part I: HERE See the Just Tao It Series Introduction Tao/It on-ramp, PART II: HERE See Just Tao It, Chapter 1: HERE From my interpretation of the Tao Te Ching, Chapter 19 (Unpublished): Reduce emphasis on piety, Ease returns. Reduce emphasis on rationality, What is natural appears. Reduce emphasis on [...]
See the Series Introduction for Just Tao It, Part I: HERE See the Just Tao It Series Introduction Tao/It on-ramp, PART II: HERE See Just Tao It, Chapter 1: HERE From my interpretation of the Tao Te Ching, Chapter 6 (Unpublished): It is, without limit. Like a valley, still. Like a mystery spirit— a well, forever full, for [...]
Strengthening uniquely human capacities in accelerating systems Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming one of the great accelerants in human history. Speed accelerates. Information accelerates. Production accelerates. Analysis accelerates. Even imitation accelerates. A question appears and within seconds a polished response arrives carrying the tone of certainty, coherence, and authority. The experience can feel almost magical until [...]
See the Series Introduction for Just Tao It, Part I: HERE See the Just Tao It Series Introduction Tao/It on-ramp, PART II: HERE See Just Tao It, Chapter 1: HERE From my interpretation of the Tao Te Ching, Chapter 4 (Unpublished): Draw from It— empty, yet never dry. A well, of all sources. From It, the ten thousand [...]
See the Series Introduction for Just Tao It, Part I: HERE See the Just Tao It Series Introduction Tao/It on-ramp, PART II: HERE See Just Tao It, Chapter 1: HERE From my interpretation of the Tao Te Ching, Chapter 49 (Unpublished): With open mind, the wise find all people worthy of care. Those who live nobly, are treated [...]