An Experiment with Living Labs
What is a Living Lab? For about three months we in the enkel collective, a group of Western Australian changemakers, have explored the potential to set up three so-called ‘living labs’. “A living lab...
View ArticleThree Scenarios for the Future of Capitalism
We currently see many articles about the the evils of capitalism, the end of capitalism and possible post-capitalism futures. I was invited to talk at the One Planet Anti-Conference a couple of weeks...
View ArticleDo We Need More Professional People?
A while ago I tweeted the following: Sometimes people tell me I should be more professional. But I don’t think more professional people is a thing that’s good for our planet. Professional people get...
View ArticleOur Antipathy
I haven’t written anything about the Syrian migrant crisis which have fragmented Europe this year. I wrote about the EU, its borders and potential to bring the local and global together, but beyond...
View ArticleChaos and Order in Living Systems
A question for systems geeks out there… I’m thinking about the relations of various bubbles we live in. A bubble with a living system within another living system. I am a living system of cells and...
View ArticleUnderstanding our Actions
In the normal era (now past), the reason for most our actions was clear before and while we did them. In this new post-normal era, the reason for most our actions will only be understood in hindsight....
View ArticleThe Holiday-Break-Sense-Making Experiment
Over the Christmas / New Year break I decided to do an experiment. Instead of aimlessly throwing out things that interested and excited me online (retweet them, post them on to my Facebook wall etc), I...
View ArticleA Stakeholder Model for the 21st Century
Who’s left out? Every time we create a stakeholder model we exclude someone or something. We consciously or unconsciously decide that only some groups have something at stake – are holders of stakes,...
View ArticleKill Your Business to Keep it Alive! Organisational Implosion for...
Kill Your Ideas Early In a blog post by Peter Diamandis last weekend, he gave some hot tips on how to organise creativity. The advice is based on his work with semi-secret R&D facility Google X,...
View ArticleSomething horrible is coming towards us…
ASSUMPTION Let’s assume there’s something horrible coming towards us. A perfect catastrophe. Something, which would take our jobs away and force our children and grandchildren to move away from here....
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