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You're Optimising the Wrong Thing
The quality of what grows above the ground depends on the quality of the soil beneath it. Scharmer went on to co-found the Presencing Institute at MIT and has spent decades applying this principle to social systems — organisations, economies, governance structures.
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The Best Work Happens When You Disappear
The story is usually told as an amusing anecdote about rock and roll. But it describes something that anyone who has made things — music, writing, art...
What Boredom Is Trying to Show You
Think about when boredom used to happen. Waiting in line. Sitting on a bus. The ten minutes between finishing one thing and starting the next. The gap...
AI Passed the Exam. What Did It Understand?
In 2025, an AI model built by researchers at the University of Buffalo outperformed most human physicians on the United States Medical Licensing Exami...
The Silence You're Chasing Is Chasing You
The BBC reported a 460% increase in Silent Book Club events across the UK between 2024 and 2025. What started as two friends reading in a San Francisc...
What You're Really Afraid Of (It's Not AI)
A 2026 Gallup survey found that workers at companies that have already adopted AI are more anxious about losing their jobs than those at companies tha...
The Body Already Knew
You flinch before you know why. Your stomach tightens in a conversation before you can name what's wrong. You catch a ball without calculating its tra...
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