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David Gurteen

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Conversational Leadership: writer, speaker, and facilitator. Founder: Gurteen Knowledge & creator of the Gurteen Knowledge Cafe.

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Issue 293 of the Gurteen Knowledge Letter is now available. This edition dives into how indirect paths—what John Kay calls "the power of obliquity"—often lead to better results in complex situations, allowing creative solutions to emerge when we stay adaptive. I also share…

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The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. - Isaac Asimov

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Sam Harris: Your mind is all you have. Is yours working? “I think we need a truly open-ended conversation with 8 billion strangers, and what makes that hard to do increasingly is a level of political fragmentation and extremism and partisanship born of our engagement with these…


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When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. - Max Planck (1858 - 1947)

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Revitalize your organization's knowledge sharing! Join Dave Snowden, @snowded, @TheCynefinCo, at #KMWorld to explore strategies. Register before Oct. 18th for Early Bird Pricing, use code KMW2024! ow.ly/werq30sHI47

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The first spark of cellular life on Earth likely needed gift packaging bit.ly/48IX0zS


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My all time favorite.. ❤️ Never gets old..


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"A wise leader, therefore, does not see herself as someone who simply makes sound decisions; because she realizes she can never, on her own, be an optimal decision maker, she views herself as a decision architect in charge of designing her organization's decision-making…


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Study after study have found that in the U.S. misinformation circulates more widely on the right of the political spectrum. However, studies have found that both sides are equally likely to believe negative fake news about the other. science.org/content/articl…

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An interesting idea.

IDEA: Tag X profiles with our worldview. Could be Left/Center/Right, Traditional/Modern/Progressive, or another typology. We can choose it, or X can auto-generate it. Then we can see the ideological spread of our social graphs, and inject ideological diversity into our feeds.



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A new algorithm may make robots safer by making them more aware of human carelessness bit.ly/3Clbf1H


Özlem Cekic, a former Danish politician, faced hate for her background as a Muslim immigrant. Instead of responding angrily, she invited her critics for conversations over coffee, turning hostility into understanding. Her story demonstrates the transformative power of dialogue…

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Reading to kids doesn't just benefit them. It's good for parents too. Evidence: Reading regularly to children improves parenting skills, reduces stress, and builds lasting bonds. In a distracted world, sitting together with a book is a rare occasion for undivided attention.

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Life without meaning is the breeding ground of despair.


Imagine a culture where an argument is viewed as a dance, the participants are seen as performers, and the goal is to perform in a balanced and aesthetically pleasing way. In such a culture, people would view arguments differently, experience them differently, carry them out…

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Play Devil’s Advocate: Chatbots can be powerful tools for developing our critical thinking skills, especially when exploring different perspectives. One effective approach is to ask the chatbot to play “Devil’s Advocate,” allowing it to present counterarguments or alternative…

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The Real Enemy to Our Society: We agreed that the erosion of the possibility of dialogue with those who hold opposing perspectives poses a threat to society. This is a kind of cultural decay that's linked not only to entrenched ideologies but also to the challenges posed by…

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