Axis in conversation is not necessarily nor frequently a straight line: it often does not connect only two points or even all points to each other. All that may be true is that many of the conversations flow in similar directions. In fact more energy may be generated—and progress—from diversity and complexity.
:- Doug.
The more we align the conversations along the same axis, the more work gets done.
:- Doug.
What we have learned in a long life can inform what we do for our world and our grandchildren.
:- Doug.
You may not think you have much wisdom—but will you use what you’ve got for your grandchildren?
:- Doug.
Conversation is to get work done: To move things, people, intimates, poetry, and the larger world.
:- Doug.
As Internet thinking slides into the Internet of things, as our electric grid becomes an intergrid, as people become active choosers in the economic flows of electricity and more, how might the world change? Distributed energy becomes a living marketplace—a conversation—a meeting place of people and ideas, our ways of thinking and how we see one another will change, how?
:- Doug.
We are in the midst of the conversation economy—and haven’t recognized it yet!
:- Doug.
Mystery draws us on, begs our desire to know. We must become an initiate, an intimate, so we converse. On the surface, to find out what information you carry; deeper, to recognize your voice from the inside.
:- Doug.
Denial of death is not denial that time will end, rather that our imagination will end—as we “know” it.
:- Doug.
Past, present, and future are all concoctions of the mind—potions we quaff so we see ourselves in varied lights.
:- Doug.
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