What if humanity's default setting became regenerative?
Not less harm. Net contribution. What would have to be true?
RegenerationSystems
Ideas worth exploring
Open questions, half-formed theories and things I can't stop thinking about. Follow whichever one pulls at you.
Is optimism a form of infrastructure?
Belief that change is possible seems to be a precondition for it.
OptimismPeople
Could collective intelligence be our most underused technology?
We've spent a century optimising individual productivity. Not group thinking.
Collective ActionSystemsAI
What if cities were measured like ecosystems?
Biodiversity, water, energy, carbon, wellbeing — one interconnected balance sheet.
NatureSystemsRegeneration
Why do good ideas travel so slowly?
The solution often already exists — three thousand kilometres away.
InnovationCollective Action
Can hope be a serious strategy?
Doom is well funded and well documented. What's the evidence base for hope?
OptimismClimate