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 [...]
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” [...]
After twenty years working with Polarity Thinking, one word finally helped me explain why it works: metatheory. A metatheory isn’t another model or framework. It’s the lens behind the lens — the way of seeing that shapes how we understand everything else. In that sense, the usefulness of Polarity Thinking is not simply that it offers [...]
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Tao/It on-ramp, PART II: HERE See Just Tao It, Chapter 1: HERE From my interpretation of the Tao Te Ching, Chapter 48 (Unpublished): Being in learning each day, There is accumulation. Being in It each day, There is distribution. In [...]
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 [...]
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Tao/It on-ramp, PART II: HERE See Just Tao It, Chapter 1: HERE From my interpretation of the Tao Te Ching, Chapter 36 (Unpublished): Reduction, relies on expansion. Illumination, depends on hidden. Risen, comes from ruin. Taken, returns as given. What [...]
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Tao/It on-ramp, PART II: HERE See Just Tao It, Chapter 1: HERE From my interpretation of the Tao Te Ching, Chapter 64 (Unpublished): What’s recent is easily corrected. What’s brittle is easily shattered. What’s little is easily scattered. Attend early. [...]
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 63 (Unpublished): Act without ado. Serve what is. Be among the willing few. See seeds in trees and trees [...]
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 29 (Unpublished): Some reach for the powerful place Without concern for the whole. Some climb to the highest space [...]
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 27 (Unpblished): Without forcing, It flows. Travelers move with It, and the journey unfolds. Artists create, and the work [...]