Category Archives: Conversation

Thinking together—conversing—adds a dimension. Two becomes Three. Or 23. Now, something none of us brought can bubble up. :- Doug.

Conversing is the major inter-neural sport! :- Doug.

Hebb’s rule some say says “neurons which fire together wire together.” Neural nets might be metaphor for people coming together so their brains wire together, helping us understand things from becoming friends to mob psychology. :- Doug.

These insights overnight seem to lean toward important if not profound: Who are people and what is our arc? Can our limits propel us? Do our desires and aspirations travel time and generations? Dare we communicate? Dare we not? How … Continue reading →

I write in the margins of books: is this conversation with the author? With myself? With others who might pick up the book? :- Doug.

Whom do you know—any place in the world—to help us think together about uncounted futures? It is more than one or a few of us can fathom: many of us together have a chance. Many of the few of us … Continue reading →

It is less speaking with an elder 300 years from now and more speaking with our community. :- Doug.

The elder is in an excellent place to show us the value in opening to others, in dialoguing with them. :- Doug.

If indigenous peoples converse with their ancestors, do they also with their descendants? Us? :- Doug.

What are we seeing that does improve humanity? For example, dialogue journalism. :- Doug.

Let us interview each other looking for the long story. Let us use the long thin needle and the barely visible thread to stitch our lives into patterns we had not seen before. Is this the work of the years, … Continue reading →