Richard, I love these observations; bridge-building would seem to be a core role at this time (and very appealling to the inveterate networkers among us!). I co-created a podcast called What Is Collective Healing? presented by the Pocket Project, a nonprofit dedicated to collective and inter-generational trauma healing, partly to build bridges between this field and other aligned organisations and networks. Would be curious to hear any more you want to write about how this bridge-building can be best pursued in practice. https://open.spotify.com/show/0g13FEQ7E8XsjPqh3t307f?si=58d9f7309ff8440e
This is so exciting for me. Recently you, or someone connected to you, sent us your book. Wow, my heart!! I'm still at the beginning because life is rather full atm, but it's like a beacon of light and wonder for me, sitting there waiting for me to pick it up at odd moments. What a joy! So rich!
I'm so excited to have met you!! Because, I've been feeling/dreaming about what you have been exploring for a very long time, it seems. And now I know I have someone with experience to lean into. What a relief!!
I'm sure there are others too. And, well, our foundations are so similar. Love!
Plus, we are now a bit of a silo of " Purpose-driven small businesses". Heart of Business, a 20 plus year business teaching that "every act of business can be an act of love".
Our main offering is a Learning Community where amazing people bringing such beautiful gifts to the world gather. We teach both effective heart centered marketing and give witness and care for the healing journey being able to live in and market from your heart can be.
But back to the silo idea. I've been longing for a way to find a bridge between what we do and all the many beautiful folks around us and all over who are pretty different than us.
We live in Trump country. Very Christian. Farms and churches. Many lovely people, but they would not feel at home in our biz community. We are Jewish Sufi's for one, and strong on social justice in a way that might rattle many of our neighbors as well.
Yet I feel deep in my bones how much we all need each other. Now more than ever too!
And now I have you! Your book. Your Substack. I am bowing with deep gratitude and sitting gratefully at your feet as a student too. Thank you!
we are working on one part of that problem: food system, from farm to market to consumer. Same approach seems to make sense for other parts of the economy. We have developed an AI agentic team that covers the entire spectrum of the markets.
Klaus, that is great work. Building a Local Food System Network in Northern Nevada in 2005 gave me a more hands-on perspective on the challenges in connecting all of the elements of a food system. Your work using AI is laudable and in line with what I know.
One of the projects we built in 2014 was a platform to connect goods from all sectors, including food, across an entire region. We envisioned back then what is now called Social AI, where an AI Agent would become a proactive community bridge builder.
In addition to a one-to-one relationship between a person and a chat box, what about a many-to-many relationship facilitated by AI?
Imagine the power of using AI to develop a personalized yet universal approach and help each local region plan to build its own local food system networks in 10,000 communities simultaneously. Each community then becomes aware of all of the elements that need to be brought together.
To do that, I found that you don't need money, you don't need to create a formal organization (nonprofit or for-profit), and it doesn't need paid employees to achieve network evolution on the ground where we live. And, because it is a truly distributive network, it doesn't take a lot of time for each participant.
And, more importantly, the healthy way to do it is to give people the tools to do it themselves, bottom-up and grassroots, rather than forming a top-down organizational structure to "control" it.
It is the opposite of what we assume is needed: regional, national, and global networks emerge organically, starting in each community and spreading through shared wisdom and what is actually working to bring this together.
well I do need to pay our tech team, and some support staff who all have to pay rent and support their families, plus admin overhead for licenses, fees and such. But the idea you express is what we are doing: a central curated knowledge base, open source, accessible to everyone linked via our agents, and a customization protocol that makes each subscriber unique and identifiable to the AI. In other words, everyone is linked to the same substrate / mycelium, but then the system customizes itself to the farmer, aggregator, soil scientist, processor, CPG manufacturer. The AI orchestrates and assures support for regenerative conversions on the farm, aligning the entire system in support. The design imperative for all is simple: regeneration of the soil.
Then there is this issue of scale. Yes to organic growth, but how much time do we have? In my last newsletter I point out the need for global alignment and coordination, with a very acute example. How does one account for that?
This is great! Just like when we are regenerating a farm or an ecosystem, we need to clearly identify and "love" the organisms that are causing harm and disrupting the Nature of Love in civic design and action. Personally, when I create awareness about the people in ecovillages/nonprofits/governments/philanthropy/etc who embody parasitic qualities, I become the VILLAIN, despite my universal Love and empathy (not just to my "tribe").
How do we hold these gatekeepers accountable for limiting the possibilities of humanity?
Richard, thank you for your dedication to this work, and for your book. YES!!!!
AND…
it seems to me that to develop large-scale immunity to divide-and-conquer tactics, we need to develop a new literacy… widespread familiarity with the listening arts that allow us to work creatively with conflict.
Richard, I love these observations; bridge-building would seem to be a core role at this time (and very appealling to the inveterate networkers among us!). I co-created a podcast called What Is Collective Healing? presented by the Pocket Project, a nonprofit dedicated to collective and inter-generational trauma healing, partly to build bridges between this field and other aligned organisations and networks. Would be curious to hear any more you want to write about how this bridge-building can be best pursued in practice. https://open.spotify.com/show/0g13FEQ7E8XsjPqh3t307f?si=58d9f7309ff8440e
Thank you for the comment, Matthew. Here is an overview of Symbiotic Culture and the practical approaches.
https://www.richardflyer.com/p/introducing-symbiotic-culture
This is so exciting for me. Recently you, or someone connected to you, sent us your book. Wow, my heart!! I'm still at the beginning because life is rather full atm, but it's like a beacon of light and wonder for me, sitting there waiting for me to pick it up at odd moments. What a joy! So rich!
I'm so excited to have met you!! Because, I've been feeling/dreaming about what you have been exploring for a very long time, it seems. And now I know I have someone with experience to lean into. What a relief!!
I'm sure there are others too. And, well, our foundations are so similar. Love!
Plus, we are now a bit of a silo of " Purpose-driven small businesses". Heart of Business, a 20 plus year business teaching that "every act of business can be an act of love".
Our main offering is a Learning Community where amazing people bringing such beautiful gifts to the world gather. We teach both effective heart centered marketing and give witness and care for the healing journey being able to live in and market from your heart can be.
But back to the silo idea. I've been longing for a way to find a bridge between what we do and all the many beautiful folks around us and all over who are pretty different than us.
We live in Trump country. Very Christian. Farms and churches. Many lovely people, but they would not feel at home in our biz community. We are Jewish Sufi's for one, and strong on social justice in a way that might rattle many of our neighbors as well.
Yet I feel deep in my bones how much we all need each other. Now more than ever too!
And now I have you! Your book. Your Substack. I am bowing with deep gratitude and sitting gratefully at your feet as a student too. Thank you!
One movement, fueled by bringing an organized systems of 12 monthly harmony values messages to everyone is the only way to heal the world.
we are working on one part of that problem: food system, from farm to market to consumer. Same approach seems to make sense for other parts of the economy. We have developed an AI agentic team that covers the entire spectrum of the markets.
https://www.foodwiththoughtai.com
Klaus, that is great work. Building a Local Food System Network in Northern Nevada in 2005 gave me a more hands-on perspective on the challenges in connecting all of the elements of a food system. Your work using AI is laudable and in line with what I know.
One of the projects we built in 2014 was a platform to connect goods from all sectors, including food, across an entire region. We envisioned back then what is now called Social AI, where an AI Agent would become a proactive community bridge builder.
In addition to a one-to-one relationship between a person and a chat box, what about a many-to-many relationship facilitated by AI?
Imagine the power of using AI to develop a personalized yet universal approach and help each local region plan to build its own local food system networks in 10,000 communities simultaneously. Each community then becomes aware of all of the elements that need to be brought together.
To do that, I found that you don't need money, you don't need to create a formal organization (nonprofit or for-profit), and it doesn't need paid employees to achieve network evolution on the ground where we live. And, because it is a truly distributive network, it doesn't take a lot of time for each participant.
And, more importantly, the healthy way to do it is to give people the tools to do it themselves, bottom-up and grassroots, rather than forming a top-down organizational structure to "control" it.
It is the opposite of what we assume is needed: regional, national, and global networks emerge organically, starting in each community and spreading through shared wisdom and what is actually working to bring this together.
well I do need to pay our tech team, and some support staff who all have to pay rent and support their families, plus admin overhead for licenses, fees and such. But the idea you express is what we are doing: a central curated knowledge base, open source, accessible to everyone linked via our agents, and a customization protocol that makes each subscriber unique and identifiable to the AI. In other words, everyone is linked to the same substrate / mycelium, but then the system customizes itself to the farmer, aggregator, soil scientist, processor, CPG manufacturer. The AI orchestrates and assures support for regenerative conversions on the farm, aligning the entire system in support. The design imperative for all is simple: regeneration of the soil.
Then there is this issue of scale. Yes to organic growth, but how much time do we have? In my last newsletter I point out the need for global alignment and coordination, with a very acute example. How does one account for that?
https://klausmager400333.substack.com/p/cuisine-as-intelligence-why-the-food?r=2ziut6&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
agree re: fragmentation
Great I would love to chat with you about this. I have some experience with communities and system design myself.
i am interested to join a conversation on this topic
Great John. I have shared a link in the previous comment.
Wonderful. Here is a strategy primer on the approach:
https://www.richardflyer.com/p/introducing-symbiotic-culture
This is great! Just like when we are regenerating a farm or an ecosystem, we need to clearly identify and "love" the organisms that are causing harm and disrupting the Nature of Love in civic design and action. Personally, when I create awareness about the people in ecovillages/nonprofits/governments/philanthropy/etc who embody parasitic qualities, I become the VILLAIN, despite my universal Love and empathy (not just to my "tribe").
How do we hold these gatekeepers accountable for limiting the possibilities of humanity?
Richard, thank you for your dedication to this work, and for your book. YES!!!!
AND…
it seems to me that to develop large-scale immunity to divide-and-conquer tactics, we need to develop a new literacy… widespread familiarity with the listening arts that allow us to work creatively with conflict.
This is very doable, and a necessary complement to all of the more material aspects. More info at https://www.co-creatingdesiredfutures.net/
Also do check out Heidi and Guy Burgess’ work on “massively parallel peace processes”. They are also brilliant creative synthesists.