

“We are facing greater ecological instability, deeper social complexity and a growing need for individual meaning that would be foreign to all but our most recent ancestors. We cannot reach the destinations we choose for ourselves if we do not alter our navigation systems to accommodate the greater complexity in our lives”
― Closing the Mind Gap: Making Smarter Decisions in a Hypercomplex World
― Closing the Mind Gap: Making Smarter Decisions in a Hypercomplex World
“If you don't believe in transcendent experience, you haven't been to the right concert, you know, you haven't used the right drugs, you haven't had sex with the right partner.”
― Why I Left, Why I Stayed: Conversations on Christianity Between an Evangelical Father and His Humanist Son
― Why I Left, Why I Stayed: Conversations on Christianity Between an Evangelical Father and His Humanist Son

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
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Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
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“English does not distinguish between arrogant-up (irreverence toward the temporarily powerful) and arrogant-down (directed at the small guy).”
― The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
― The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

“Complex thinkers attempt to extend to others the same self-forgiving bias that they offer themselves.”
― Closing the Mind Gap: Making Smarter Decisions in a Hypercomplex World
― Closing the Mind Gap: Making Smarter Decisions in a Hypercomplex World
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