January 31, 2025

Learning

'We hope to help each other be good ancestors. We hope to preserve possibilities for the future.'

The Long Now Foundation, established in 1996, aims to foster long-term thinking and responsibility. They publish a great website, host regular gatherings, seminars, and maintain public spaces to promote discussions and share ideas about "slower/better" thinking, expanding time perspectives, and encouraging long-term accountability.

For me, they fulfill the role once played by the Whole Earth Catalog, CoEvolution Quarterly, and Whole Earth Review. This connection is unsurprising, given Stewart Brand’s key involvement in each of these projects.

The inaugural issue of Long Now’s annual print journal is now available. In their words, it "synthesizes the most important learnings of our first quarter-century." I’m savoring every page.

Article: Announcing Pace Layers

Learning

How to build inclusion and collaboration in your communities

BOOK: Design for Belonging. How to Build Inclusion and Collaboration in Your Communities

Learning

Unlocking our capacity to experiment with new patterns might be as simple as singing together.

VIDEO: Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale

Learning

How a strong, self‑transcending purpose can transform health, resilience, and ethical behavior

PODCAST: You 2.0: What Is Your Life For?

Learning

Transitions open us to new ways of seeing.

‍‍ARTICLE: ‘Tis the Season to Open Yourself to New Ways of Seeing