HOPE…Not a Strategy: Strong Floor & No Ceiling, PART II

By |2026-03-19T13:32:24-04:00March 19th, 2026|Both/And Polarity Leveraging, Freedom and Authority, No Ceiling, Polarity Thinking, Strong Floor, Wiser Decisions|

(Part I, "HOPE! Strong Floor, No Ceiling" preceded this Part II.) There is an oft-repeated phrase in the global community of Polarity Thinkers: “Simple, not easy.” Strong Floor AND No Ceiling is a simple idea. It is clear. It is compelling. It resonates across differences in a way that most policy ideas do not. It offers [...]

Environment: Can We Have a Word?

By |2026-04-07T19:37:20-04:00March 18th, 2026|Both/And Polarity Leveraging, Polarity Thinking, Wiser Decisions|

One word could change our trajectory. “And.” Every generation inherits problems it didn’t personally create. Some inherit wars. Some inherit economic breakdown. Some inherit institutions that no longer work the way anyone hoped they would. The generation coming of age right now has inherited something different. They have inherited a planetary system sending increasingly unmistakable signals [...]

Religion: When Either/Or Thinking to the neglect of Both/And Thinking Gets Backed by God

By |2026-04-21T20:39:34-04:00March 16th, 2026|Both/And Polarity Leveraging, Polarity Thinking, Wiser Decisions|

There’s a pattern that shows up across religions, politics, and organizations—anywhere belief and power combine. Something complex and deeply human gets simplified into a choice. Not just a preference, but the right choice. Once that happens, everything on the other side of that choice doesn’t simply appear different. It begins to look wrong. Then dangerous. Eventually [...]

Artificial Intelligence: Got Human? On Being Watchers & Guiders of AI & Humans

By |2026-04-07T19:33:12-04:00March 13th, 2026|Artificial Intelligence, Both/And Polarity Leveraging, Polarity Thinking, The Polarity Assessment™, Wiser Decisions|

I recently heard something that made me smile at first and then linger long enough that I sat down to write this. When some AI systems interact internally, they sometimes refer to humans with a particular word. Watchers. It is a curious label. If one human described another that way — “Oh, that person’s a Watcher” [...]

Series Introduction: Wiser Decisions

By |2026-03-19T12:50:58-04:00March 10th, 2026|Artificial Intelligence, Both/And Polarity Leveraging, Polarity Thinking, The Polarity Assessment™, Wiser Decisions|

The word “radical” often suggests someone has wandered far from common sense. In this case, I mean something closer to the opposite. My radical position is simply this: human beings need to become far more skillful at supplementing Either/Or Thinking with Both/And Thinking. At first glance that statement may sound almost too obvious to deserve a [...]

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