Professional Parents?
Full disclosure, I’m a science fiction aficionado. I have found so many truisms and connections to my everyday life by reading about abstract, far-fetched ideas. Extracting the human element by …
Holistic Life Coaching
Holistic care is a fashionable way of prescribing a solution, but how capable are we (as a society, or as an individual care giver) to provide care for the whole …
The soup in which we live
I use the phrase “the soup in which we live” a lot as a metaphor for the systems, environments, and ecologies in which we develop and live. I think it’s …
We all Lack Willpower
image shameless stolen from https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/towards-a-bayesian-theory-of-willpower I’m a firm believer that willpower does not exist, or at least in the way that most people think of it without reflection. I don’t …
Scientific Cuddling?
There’s a theory about the evolutionary purposes for tickling. A social purpose, intimate physical contact in a safe playful way is important to our interpersonal development, especially in our younger …
Running upstream to find the keystone
On the strive together podcast Jeffrey Canada and Jennifer Blatz discuss that the reason so many siloed projects fail to help children. Each of the projects by themselves are insufficient …
Unveiling of Ignorance
3/12/2021 Much has been written and explored about John Rawls’ concept of the “veil of ignorance.” A thought experiment where one is to consider what kind of society they would …
Patchwork behavior
We are a patchwork of evolved, sufficiently adaptive survival functions. The functions exist at the level of molecules, spinal reflexes, midbrain organismic regulation systems, cognitive faculties (the ability to plan …
Universal Basic ***
Universal health care, universal basic income, Mr Universe, etc. How are all these tied together with the OneSchool Project? I am of the opinion that with appropriate allocation and environmental …