I’ve worked with Theory of Constraints for decades.
I used to believe the constraint was inside the system.
Now I believe the constraint is our belief that we stand outside it.
I wrote this essay as a gift and a challenge to the TOC community. What if the systems we prize exist in our minds, not in the living, relational world? What if the map has become the deepest constraint?
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“Peace on earth, goodwill to all.” Not a command or a hope for the future, but a declaration of what is — the very substrate on which all creation rests. Perhaps what we’re celebrating isn’t a king coming to rule, but a recognition breaking through, of a reality as old as time itself.
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We’re not just stuck in a bad story—we’re enchanted by it. Symbolic intelligence falling in love with its own creations, mistaking maps for territory, narratives for reality. We’d rather die inside the beautiful lie than live in the humbler truth. Crowhurst couldn’t turn back. Can we?
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A modern version of the Classic Scriptural reading, frequently heard during Christian Christmas services. It emerged through a joint human/AI investigation.
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In spring 2020, a virus revealed what symbolic intelligence had forgotten: that life is lived through relationship, not control. This reflection explores how a microscopic organism exposed the limits of abstract knowing—and invited us, however briefly, to remember the wisdom of participation, presence, and attunement to the real.
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