“Chaordic” is a term coined by Dee Hock to refer to the state of optimal equilibrium between chaos and order. Too much disorder (lack of ...
Problematizing Scale in the Social sector (Part 1): Expanding Conceptions
The social innovation community is entranced by scale. Foundations, incubators, accelerators, governments, social investors and thought leaders are consistently driving expectations that new solutions should ...
An Exquisite Contempt
One day the gods were filled with ennui and so they peered into the lives of creation, as they often did, in order to make ...
Against The Primacy of Morals
Nietszche recommended a genealogy of morals that was rooted in the psychosocial. There used to be just the strong and the weak, he argued—those who ...
What Matters Is…
I am weary, she wrote, in an open letter in a purple sky. With coniferous pens and craggy ink. With a thick blue brush and ...
On Epistemic Humility
There are so many frameworks and meta-frameworks that analyze what we know and why we know it (epistemology)—they are usually extraordinary assemblies of language and ...
She is Gone
She is gone, gone, gone. The last. The Elder Moon. The Mother. Sweetly fierce about where to place her own feet. A deep and gentle ...
On Beauty
I’d like to suggest that beauty is a primary human experience and that our ethical and religious sensibilities are derivatives of it. If beauty is ...
Transformation Isn’t Gentle
Spin and die, To live again as butterfly — Christina Rossetti Does the worm twist and groan as it sheds its shape or sprouts a ...
Redemption Please
What drives us? There are many frameworks that attempt to understand the motivating principles that animate us: biology, evolution, psychology, sociology, religion, philosophy. Each advances ...