HeyJaredJulian’s Substack
Path notes of a meta-modernish systems thinker & contemplative animist tracking emergence at the confluence of complexity, consciousness, culture & ecology
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AI didn’t escape: complexity just ate containment (opens the original)
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As AI evolves beyond our capacity to regulate or meaningfully control it, we’re at risk of repeating a classic and consequential leadership error: treating a complex, adaptive system as if it were an engineering problem. In this piece I suggest that AI governance is simultaneously a complexity problem and a power problem…and complexity thinking helps us see why technical containment alone cannot resolve either. I cross-posted this over on LinkedIn so my apologies if you get it twice!<p class="ct
Can A Two Week Retreat Change Your Life? Living Models and Patterns of Possibility (opens the original)
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It’s dawn and I’m writing as the sun rises with a baleful glow through the apocalyptic shroud of smoke still hanging over our town. I’ve spent the past few weeks running wilderness-based programs and have a brief interlude before heading back out to do the same for the rest of the summer. I sometimes describe my work as being a teaching assistant to the land itself and already there have been so many moments of wonder and learning. I’ve sprinkled a few photos of our classroom across this post. I
Of Perilous Seats, Original Faces and the Future of Education (opens the original)
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Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it and by the same token, save it from that ruin which, except for renewal, except for the coming of the new and the young, would be inevitable. And education, too, is where we decide whether we love our children enough not to expel them from our world and leave them to their own devices, nor to strike from their hands their chance of undertaking something new, something unforeseen by us, but
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