This summer, I will give a talk at Agile 2025 on how we shape and are shaped by the systems we inhabit. For research on that talk, I have continued to investigate the concept of the transindividual. In this newsletter, I will look more specifically at the work of Étienne Balibar, one of the modern thinkers who have explored this

It is a common theme to hear from coaches that change isn’t good or bad; your mindset makes it what it is. These coaches then teach you to change your mindset to take advantage of any disruption as a new opportunity. I understand why this approach is appealing: people want to feel good, and coaches usually work with individuals and,

There are two standard views about individuals and groups. The most common view is that individuals are primary. This is usually characterized by people thinking that to build the best teams, you need the best people (as if these best people exist in isolation) and the great man theory of leadership, where an individual can shape a team and individually

It seems like everyone now has imposter syndrome. Or at least everyone who isn’t a psychopath. The traditional definition of imposter syndrome focuses on feeling like a fraud and questioning one’s own abilities to do what one is doing. I want to focus on this feeling of fraud because it is a question of identity or misidentification. We all have

I will admit it: I am an AI skeptic. But that said, I recently spent some time building a project with AI, and I was impressed. Still, I believe some of AI’s promises are overstated. AI will continue to improve, but I don’t believe the risk to humans is an Artificial General Intelligence that will destroy the world. I think