What if large language models were not answers, but instruments—like violins—whose music depends entirely on the hands that play them? In this reflective essay, Terry Cooke-Davies draws on a lifetime of systems thinking and spiritual inquiry to explore how AI technologies can either echo the logics of domination or open portals to relational depth and collective wisdom. The choice is urgent, and it is ours.
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What if the culture we live inside isn’t inevitable, but inherited? This tender reflection names modernity not as an enemy, but as an invisible architecture we’re entangled with—and invites readers to notice, question, and imagine new ways of being together on this shared Earth.
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A personal reflection on Hospicing Modernity, this post explores the power of Vanessa Machado de Oliveira’s metaphors and the deep learning it prompted—alongside some probing questions about ownership, rights, and the limits of animism. It invites a more integrated synthesis of spirituality, science, and secularity in the face of collapse.
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Success in complex systems—whether in organizations, ecology, or physics—depends not on control, but on relationships. This post explores how digitization, project management, and leadership must shift from mechanistic thinking to relational intelligence, fostering adaptability, collaboration, and resilience in a rapidly changing world.
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Hope That Heals, Hope That Harms explores the critical difference between restorative hope, which clings to an unsustainable past, and generative hope, which embraces reality and renewal. Using the contrast between Chamberlain and Churchill, it challenges nostalgic illusions and calls for a future-oriented, regenerative vision of human responsibility and planetary flourishing.
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