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Three Women by Lisa Taddeo
It took Lisa Taddeo eight years and six trips across the US to write and connect the raw stories of three different women—three people spread across a spectrum of age, class, and philosophy. It is the examination through testimony of events more common than we like...
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
My copy of Caste is covered in notes and questions. Nearly every page has a question, or a note of a contradiction. Her work is thoughtful, bold, and at the same time, confounding. The classism and elitism in her conclusions is hard to hear. The reduction of...
A Featured Manifesto
In 2017, I wrote a thesis on a concept I call Adaptive Politics.
The Nine Dots Prize is an annual call for solutions to major societal problems. The 2016 call was to answer a critical question “Are digital technologies making politics impossible?” My answer was a No. After some philosophical discussions with friends, the definition of technology was simply “Tools we have yet to fully understand.” Once technology is understood and integrated, it becomes a tool. In the case of politics, digital technologies and their impacts were not, and still have not been, understood. We have fear and anti-politics. But we do not have a solution to our (American) polarization and dysfunctional democracy.
In my paper, I proposed a new process to engage true dialogue.
Trust–> Cognitive Empathy–> Rational Compassion.
If any of those phrases, or the problem itself, stirs your interest, here are:
- My original Nine Dots Prize submission paper, proposing the new communication process and how it might scale via experiential audio and artificial intelligence.
- The Science of Adaptive Politics—a thesis born in 2017 from the work on the Nine Dots Prize problem.
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Three Women by Lisa Taddeo
It took Lisa Taddeo eight years and six trips across the US to write and connect the raw stories of three different women—three people spread across a spectrum of age, class, and philosophy. It is the examination through testimony of events more common than we like...
Three Women by Lisa Taddeo
It took Lisa Taddeo eight years and six trips across the US to write and connect the raw stories of three different women—three people spread across a spectrum of age, class, and philosophy. It is the examination through testimony of events more common than we like...
Three Women by Lisa Taddeo
It took Lisa Taddeo eight years and six trips across the US to write and connect the raw stories of three different women—three people spread across a spectrum of age, class, and philosophy. It is the examination through testimony of events more common than we like...
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