Gurteen Knowledge Blog June 23, 2021, 18:53The United States’ founding fathers understood the importance of a well-informed citizenry to vote wisely to elect good leaders, as these two quotations clearly show. Today, like so many other democratic nations, not only are citizens not educated in the “science of government,” they do not have the ability to make … Continue reading Has Democracy Outlived Its Usefulness? The best argument against Democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter
video player In Search of the Third Attractor (part1) | Daniel Schmachtenberger Timestamps Where are we headed as a species? What is the landscape of risks and challenges that we need to confront over the next decades, and are there a small number of key factors that we need to solve to avoid catastrophe? As … Continue reading In Search of the Third Attractor (part 1) Daniel Schmachtenberger (2022)
Emergence | Daniel Schmachtenberger Posts where this video is embedded Multipolar Traps or Moloch Traps Acting against our collective interests Pollution of the Global Information Ecosystem The contamination of information with false and misleading material The Four Levels of Knowledge Management The relation between Conversational Leadership and Knowledge Management The Global Information Ecosystem We live in a vast sea … Continue reading Emergence Daniel Schmachtenberger (2016)
video player In Search of the Third Attractor (part 2) | Daniel Schmachtenberger Timestamps Where are we headed as a species? What is the landscape of risks and challenges that we need to confront over the next decades, and are there a small number of key factors that we need to solve to avoid catastrophe? … Continue reading In Search of the Third Attractor (part 2) Daniel Schmachtenberger (2022)
What can we trust? Why is the ‘information ecology’ so damaged, and what would it take to make it healthy? video player The War on Sensemaking | Daniel Schmachtenberger (Rebel Wisdom) Comments Trusting Information The central message of this talk by Daniel Schmachtenberger is that we cannot trust any of the information in our global … Continue reading The War on Sensemaking I Daniel Schmachtenberger (2019)
Gurteen Knowledge Blog September 6, 2022, 20:23I am a massive fan of the work of Daniel Smachtenberger, and you may recall I wrote about his four-part War on Sensemaking videos in 2019. If you want to understand why our information ecology is so badly damaged and what it would take to make it healthy – these … Continue reading In Search of the Third Attractor Daniel Schmachtenberger
Daniel Schmachtenberge is a founding member of the Consilience Project Daniel is a founding member of the Consilience Project, aimed at improving public sensemaking and dialogue. The throughline of his interests has to do with improving the health and development of individuals and society, with a virtuous relationship between the two as a goal. Towards … Continue reading Daniel Schmachtenberger A founding member of the Consilience Project
Gurteen Knowledge Blog June 2, 2023, 14:32I hope you are familiar with the work of Daniel Schmachtenberger. Daniel is a futurist, philosopher, and thought leader in complex systems, existential risk, and global cooperation. In this recent conversation, Artificial Intelligence and The Superorganism with Nate Hagens, Daniel discusses the risk posed by artificial intelligence (AI) to our … Continue reading The Risks Posed by Artificial Intelligence A conversation between Nate Hagens and Daniel Schmachtenberger
video player The War on Sensemaking II | Daniel Schmachtenberger (Rebel Wisdom) The War on Sensemaking Video Series Posts where this video is embedded Multipolar Traps or Moloch Traps Acting against our collective interests Pollution of the Global Information Ecosystem The contamination of information with false and misleading material The Four Levels of Knowledge Management The relation between … Continue reading The War on Sensemaking II Daniel Schmachtenberger (2019)
video player The War on Sensemaking III | Jamie Wheal (Rebel Wisdom) The War on Sensemaking Video Series Posts where this video is embedded Multipolar Traps or Moloch Traps Acting against our collective interests Pollution of the Global Information Ecosystem The contamination of information with false and misleading material The Four Levels of Knowledge Management The relation between … Continue reading The War on Sensemaking III, the Infinite Game Jamie Wheal (2020)
video player The War on Sensemaking IV | Daniel Schmachtenberger (Rebel Wisdom) The War on Sensemaking Video Series Posts where this video is embedded Multipolar Traps or Moloch Traps Acting against our collective interests Pollution of the Global Information Ecosystem The contamination of information with false and misleading material The Four Levels of Knowledge Management The relation between … Continue reading The War on Sensemaking IV, Pandemic & Conspiracy Daniel Schmachtenberger (2020)
video player The War on Sensemaking V | Daniel Schmachtenberger (Rebel Wisdom) The War on Sensemaking Video Series Posts where this video is embedded Multipolar Traps or Moloch Traps Acting against our collective interests Pollution of the Global Information Ecosystem The contamination of information with false and misleading material The Four Levels of Knowledge Management The relation between … Continue reading The War on Sensemaking V Daniel Schmachtenberger (2020)
Gurteen Knowledge Blog December 31, 2020, 14:31Daniel Smachtenberger, when discussing the pollution of the information ecosystem with misinformation and disinformation in his talks on the War on Sensemaking, says things like: I’m trying to make sense of things because I have to be able to parse signal from noise. We would hope, though, that there are … Continue reading Using the Concept of Signal-to-noise Ratio as a Metaphor The ratio of useful or true information to false or irrelevant information
Gurteen Knowledge Blog June 27, 2021, 18:30I want to introduce you to an exciting new project initiated by the Civilization Research Institute – the Consilience Project – co-founded by Daniel Schmachtenberger. If you are not familiar with Daniel’s work, take a look at this video series on the War on Sensemaking. I have put together below … Continue reading The Consilience Project Making better sense of the world
Gurteen Knowledge Blog June 20, 2021, 14:50I blogged recently about the Consilience Project — co-founded by Daniel Schmachtenberger. The project team have now launched the Consilience Project website. The project aims to facilitate a cultural renaissance, developing the full human capacities and orientations needed for effective, emergent governance adequate to the novelty and scope of the … Continue reading Consilience Project Website Facilitating a cultural renaissance
video player How to change your thinking with Daniel Schmachtenberger | Aubrey Marcus (Everyone believes they’re the good guy) Posts where this video is embedded Multipolar Traps or Moloch Traps Acting against our collective interests Pollution of the Global Information Ecosystem The contamination of information with false and misleading material The Four Levels of Knowledge Management The relation … Continue reading How to Change Your Thinking with Daniel Schmachtenberger Aubrey Marcus
Rule Omega | Jordan Greenhall, Daniel Schmachtenberger, and Jamie Wheal Give people the benefit of the doubt: When having a conversation with someone to make sense of a situation or discuss new ideas and they say something that you consider stupid, don’t tell them it’s a stupid idea but ask them to expand on their … Continue reading Rule Omega Jordan Greenhall, Daniel Schmachtenberger, and Jamie Wheal (2019)
Pay It Forward ** Avoiding Modern-day Colonialism Close Pop-up all posts in this chapter In a complex world facing many challenges, multipolar traps emerge when self-interests conflict with collective well-being, leading to detrimental outcomes. To break free, we need to prioritize collaboration, long-term thinking, and shared goals, working across sectors and nations. Introduction In our … Continue reading Multipolar Traps or Moloch Traps Acting against our collective interests
Discrediting People ** Pollution of the Global Information Ecosystem Close Pop-up all posts in this chapter The Global Information Ecosystem is a metaphor for the vast sea of interrelated, mainly digital information, in which we live. As we move deeper into #World 2 and the digital age, everything goes digital, and we find ourselves living … Continue reading The Global Information Ecosystem We live in a vast sea of information
The Global Information Ecosystem Uncertainty ** Close Pop-up all posts in this chapter Information pollution is the contamination of information with false and misleading material. Pollution of the info-ecosystem The quality of the information in our global information ecosystem is paramount. To reduce uncertainty and make good sensemaking and decision-making, we need to trust the … Continue reading Pollution of the Global Information Ecosystem The contamination of information with false and misleading material
