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The Future of Decision-Making
A caveat up front: The Value Web has always been a community effort, and these are just my personal reflections as we reach a new part of the journey. I was proud to be a part of the Value Web when…
What I Learned Trying to Influence the Canadian Election
ContextIn the midst of all that is going on in the world, Canada just had a federal election. Normally, Canadian politics isn’t something that gets the blood racing, but these are not normal times,…
The Coming AI Policy Challenges
The Canadian election has had all kinds of strange accusations thrown around, including many calling Mark Carney a socialist. This is strange, indeed, given that he is an alum of Goldman Sachs. But…
The Overton Window is Broken
There has been something bothering me for some time as I’ve watched public opinion swing wildly on some longstanding issues, but until the results for Canada’s election came in last night it has felt…
Foresight has a Disinformation Problem
In the future, you will own nothing, and you will be happy.I can’t remember when I first heard this line in the lead up to Canada’s election, but before long, I kept hearing it on repeat as proof…
Process Activism
Researchers in Artificial Intelligence often use Chain of Thought (CoT) prompting as a way of getting AI models to improve their reasoning by explicitly laying out the steps taken to answer a…
AI Principles in Collaboration
Integrating artificial intelligence into your workflow requires you to not only evaluate where and how it can add value, but also, what ethical considerations arise with each new implementation and…
Sovereign Tech Stacks
The debate in many Western democracies on what to do about TikTok hinged around a few, very real concerns. The first concern related to the danger of a foreign adversary being able to use very…
Move Fast and Fix Things
TL;DR - The compounding consequences and constitutional violations by DOGE should be a call to action for practitioners of multi-stakeholder work, which needs to prove it can move quickly and…
What Use Is Truth?
I have spent the better part of my career working with individuals, organizations and groups to make better decisions. There are, of course, so many ways to make a decision, and there is also a lot…
Listening as Problem-Solving
While it often seems that people are just speaking for the sake of it, I want to talk a bit about conversations that are directed towards a specific purpose, and how we can adjust our listening to…
Listening with Your Whole Self
Building on “Why We Should Listen”, this is the first tool for tuning your listening in an intentional way, by clearing your head of mental models that can cloud your attention.When I was studying…
Why We Should Listen
This material is the result of a line of inquiry that started with me trying to learn the craft of graphic recording. Graphic recording involves listening to group conversations, then using visuals…
Visual Practice Starter Pack
I’ve had a few requests on where to get started to develop a practice in graphic facilitation, so I thought I would write my response here instead of firing off a few links.I still remember walking…
Deep Dive: Why Crypto is So Polarizing
Note: I started writing this before Trump and Melania launched their own memecoins, which really raised the stakes for everything I was trying to lay out - it validates for me how important it is for…
Design Thinking vs. Designing Thinking
During a recent training I delivered for a group focused on supporting multi-stakeholder processes, I realized that there were a few missing steps needed to get them in the right headspace to explore…
Intent Is Everything
When I first started doing facilitation and design work, it was almost always in the context of a single company or organization. They needed a collaborative process because they were generally large…
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goal17 Podcast has published 17 episodes since June 2024, covering topics in News, Politics.
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