Recently, Victor Piper asked me what criteria I’d choose and what questions I’d ask for high sovereignty individuals to self-select into a community. Good question. Stumbling on my reply while cleaning up my email made me think it’s worth sharing. Let’s take a step back and ask: What are the…

The meta-problem of our time is that our civilization is fundamentally unsustainable. The key generator function of existential risk is rivalrous human choice driven by game theoretic dynamics, multiplied by exponential technology, on a finite playing field. The transition towards a viable civilization can be usefully understood in terms of…

Designing Rituals, Spaces and Technology in Ways that Inspire and Enable us to Choose Our Highest Potential — That’s the theme of this post. Starting this week I’ve been playing around with Shortcuts on iOS 14, exploring ways of creating integrated, smooth and joyful experiences that support my intentions and wellbeing. Crafting rituals — intentionally designed practices and routines that serve one’s values. …

A Story About School, Alienation and Addiction — It’s been a few weeks since I’ve last written here, and I notice how much I missed it. There’s few other things that get me into the flow like writing, and so I guess my mind has been craving that. Since I’ve spent this pandemic mostly in my home town…

Competing to Make Omni-Positive Choices as Obvious, Attractive, Easy, and Satisfying as Possible — Life can be so much more than it is. More beautiful, more just, more conscious. More transcendental, more connected, more at peace. And you know it. We all do. We all long for it, in the depths of our hearts. A fundamental belief driving my work is that human beings…

Integrating Two Foundational Models of Human Development — This piece seeks to explore and synthesize some ideas around the notion of Sovereignty (as conceptualized by Daniel Schmachtenberger & Jordan Hall, see my interpretation here) and Effective Value Memes (as introduced by Hanzi Freinacht in The Listening Society). I’ll assume knowledge of both for this document. Effective value meme…

Transforming Our Projects of Transformation — I want to be more capable of doing the things that I actually want to do. I want to do things that are good for me, for others, for the world. I have intentions and values. I know that if I live by them, my life is going to be better than if I don’t. At the end of the day, I will feel better when…

And the Central Meme of Life and Evolution — As usual the principle behind these essays is to articulate and share ideas. Luckily my work here doesn’t have to be perfect to do this. The Collective Actualization of Life’s Potential It’s a meme central to life, to evolution itself: In every organism there’s an innate impulse towards self-actualization, in coherence with other organisms, leading to…

Ignorance, Existential Confusion, Fiduciary Responsibility, Coherent Extrapolated Volition — Alright. Let’s get to it. We’ll talk about ethics and values: personal, collective, effective, universal, meta, good, bad. All of them. The main purpose of this is to get these ideas out and inspire co-creation. Luckily, my work here doesn’t have to perfect to achieve this. It’s a process. Indeed…