On Coronavirus, Complex Systems, and Creative Opportunity
The best possible outcome I can imagine from this is to witness all of the creative and intelligent people who have been shackled to pointless, stupid, undignified work for our entire lives rise up and create something new and beautiful together. Emergencies often elicit the best of our humanity, a concern for the true priorities of our existence. These are moments when we are called to act on what really matters, and to contribute to our communities and to the legacy that we pass on, at a time when good ideas are unusually quick to spread.
This is a lightly edited transcript of Future Fossils Podcast Episode 139.
Greetings, Future Fossils! That word has taken on a strange new pallor over the last few weeks as the world has descended into crisis and in some cases panic around the coronavirus pandemic. Offices at my day job are closed for weeks. My brother is out of school for presumably the rest of the semester. I’m sure all of you are experiencing the knock-on effects of this as people take, in some cases, much overdue precautions and implement social…
