On the Folly of Trying to Build an Ecology
A post announcing my new Substack space—The Pond and the Pulse—and my motives for creating it.
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Issue: Current challenges
Fixes That Fail: How Two Loops Entangle Us in Mechanistic Misattunement—And How We Might Find Our Way Back
A Speed Awareness Course prompts reflection on how a mechanistic worldview subtly captures our thinking. This essay explores two loops—the inner CROWN practice and the outer Relational Krebs Cycle—and how their distortion leads to disconnection. A call to re-attune, compost assumptions, and re-enter the world with gentler, wiser presence.
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Resonance Across Registers: From Rooftop Revelation to the Relational Krebs Cycle
A rooftop revelation in Rye sparked this reflection on how our patterns of attention shape our relationships, decisions, and the world we co-create. Integrating insights from McGilchrist, Buber, Ostrom, and Bourgeault, this piece explores a “relational Krebs cycle” as a regenerative model for thinking, leading, and living.
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The Day the Markets Held Their Breath
A poetic fable tracing the moment the Empire of More trembled—sparked not by rebellion, but by tariffs and doubt. As markets shudder, quiet questions stir across gardens, glass towers, and forgotten myths. This is a story of unravelling certainty, felt coherence, and the first soft notes of a new rhythm.
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The Book of the Overplayed Hand
“The Book of the Overplayed Hand” is a prophetic satire from the compost heap of modernity. Through symbolic chapters like The Trump, The Deal, and The Fold, it invites creative mischief-makers to co-author a living oracle on collapse, complicity, and regeneration. #OverplayedHand is your invitation to shuffle in.
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