Silicon Valley And Our Wicked Walls of Resistance

by | Mar 31, 2023

The lightning-fast demise of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) is a modern-day whodunnit because it’s not so much about information – the classic ‘who knew what when’ – but about the movement of information and its accompanying effects. Who did what when, and why? Those are...

Does Your Self-Interest Help, Hinder, Harm or Heal?

by | Mar 25, 2023

If I ever write a memoir of my life in New Brunswick, I will title it Left At The Irving. In this small eastern Canadian province, Irving is everything. It is people, specifically an extended family of wealthy industrialists, now in their fifth generation. It is...

Something Wicked Your Way Comes

by | Mar 18, 2023

When it comes to systems change, there’s only one kind of problem at play: wicked ones. Back in the 1960s, a researcher named Horst Rittel came up with the term to describe complicated problems that happen within systems, calling them wicked problems as a...

Why Power is the Only Metric That Matters

by | Mar 4, 2023

There was a time when I could stop a conversation dead just by walking into a room.  A friend told me they used to know I was nearby when the energy in the room shifted. They’d watch cabinet ministers, political staff and lobbyists cast a glance in my direction...