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Mapping the AI Territory – Intelligence
The concept of intelligence is commonly understood as the ability to acquire knowledge and / or skills, and, to learn…
Natalie Muyres
Israel-Palestine Conflict Resource List 2024
What lies at the feet of humanity today is the work of learning to address our species’ most pernicious and…
Dana Penrice
Reflections on October 7th and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Even if you haven’t been paying close attention to the news, October 7th should still stand out as a day…
Dana Penrice
Artificial Intelligence Resource List 2024
The number of books and resources about artificial intelligence is slightly overwhelming, seems to be growing exponentially, and once a…
Natalie Muyres
Is Humanity Ready for the AI Revolution?
Are you ready for the AI (artificial intelligence) revolution? What does readiness mean? What is a revolution? What is responsible…
Natalie Muyres
Recommended Reading: 2023 Book List
The Human Venture publishes a list of books and other resources annually. The list includes books that were either drawn…
Dana Penrice
2023 Solstice Message
On December 19, 2023 the Human Venture met virtually and in-person to celebrate the winter solstice, a tradition for many…
Natalie Muyres
Thinking about organizational design and the Human Venture
What are the consequences of using the machine as a metaphor for an organization? When I think about this, I…
Dana Penrice
Why we need hope, why we need Human Venture Leadership
I was knocked off a treadmill. Well, not literally. But taking a program from Human Venture Leadership in 2011 knocked…
Laura Kennett
For my children, their children, and all children
This year, the Human Venture Associates were tasked with writing an introduction to Human Learning Ecology and the Human Venture…
Elizabeth Dozois
The Freedom Convoy is really a battle of narratives
by Ken Low and Alison Hagan At a recent Friday community call Ken shared his thoughts on the truckers’ Freedom…
Alison Hagan
The Invasion of Ukraine: A Human Venture approach to reading the news
I am not a journalist. I am not a politician. I am not a historian. Nor am I an academic…
Dana Penrice
Recommended Reading: 2021 Book List
The Human Venture publishes a list of books and other resources annually. The list includes books that were either drawn…
Natalie Muyres
Part 4: Ethics Begins with Compassion
This is part four of a six part series on ethics for the Human Venture blog. Ethics is the study…
Nick Kalogirou
A Winter Solstice Message from Ken
The holiday season is so meaningful because we get to spend time with people we enjoy, we get to eat…
Ken Low
Taking time to reflect on your life meaning and purpose
In June 2021, the Human Venture Associates participated in a reflection exercise using questions adapted by Laura Kennett and Mark…
Eleanor Finger
What kids need…. or, things I wish I knew about parenting
There is not much that I can think of that tests and changes you more as a human than parenting.…
Kim Rowe
Part 3: Ethics and Responsible Strategy
This is Part 3 of a series on responsible strategy. Here’s Part 1 on Responsible Analytics and Part 2 on…
Nick Kalogirou
On Memory
On memory and ground penetrating radar: Ken’s reflections on the remains of Indigenous children found The recent discovery of the…
Ken Low
Part 2: Strategy, Grand Strategy, and Values
This is Part 2 of a series. Part 1: Pursuing Responsible Analytics. What is strategy? Strategy is derived from the…
Nick Kalogirou
Complexity Shock, Finding Patterns, and Adapting
by Laura Kennett and Eleanor Finger Introduction What a year! Full of disruption and adaptation, over and over again. If…
Eleanor Finger
Part 1: Pursuing Responsible Analytics
Analytics and strategy help us navigate the fog of war, but don’t necessarily make us responsible or wise. The ascendance…
Nick Kalogirou
Recommended Reading: 2020 Book List
The Human Venture publishes a list of books annually. The list of books includes those that were either drawn on…
Natalie Muyres
2020 Solstice Message
It’s amazing to think that Ken has been with the Human Venture community for 20 years now. With that in…
Jason Low
Network Governance as an Empowerment Tool
One of the functions of pioneer leadership is to build others’ capacity to understand and act in their contexts in…
Blythe Butler
Part 2: People in Converging Crises
I wrote Part 1 of this article, Systems in Converging Crisis, in the spring, when I listed an array of crises that…
Laura Kennett
Learnings From Parenting: Racism
“I hate black people.” – Four-year-old white girl. These are words you never wish to hear spoken at all, let…
Lindsay Mitchell
Part 1: Systems in Converging Crises
We are not only in the midst of a global pandemic; we are also experiencing a convergence of several global crises…
Laura Kennett
An Opportunity for Civilizational Change
“There seems little doubt that we are currently in the midst of one of the great critical transitions of the…
Elizabeth Dozois
Deep Voices
I was inspired to write this poem after an Alumni Community Call, reflecting on the voices we pay attention to…
Kim Rowe
The Upside of COVID-19: What Gifts Does the Global Health Crisis Offer?
Do you find yourself tearing up when you see videos of people singing to one another from their balconies? Are…
Elizabeth Dozois
Recommended Reading from 2019
The following list of books includes those that were either drawn on in 2019 to support our on-going explorations and…
Ken Low
Why Pay Attention to This
There is a lot of messed up stuff going on in this world and it’s overwhelming to think about it, let alone do anything…
Laura Kennett
Winter Solstice Message 2018
The winter solstice is upon us, or more accurately, we’ve arrived at the solstice once again. The winter solstice is…
Ken Low
Poetry from Another Part of the Capitalist Machine
by Anonymous This is a collection of poems from someone named Xu Lizhi. He was a Chinese migrant worker who worked…
Human Venture
On Either Side of Memory
Memory is a critically important part of adaptive intelligence. The function of memory is to record and store relevant aspects…
Ken Low
Inoculating Ourselves Against Ignorance
We recently kicked off our ninth Human Venture Leadership Alumni Program. The Alumni Program provides us an opportunity to support…
Natalie Muyres
The Mystery and Mastery of Strategic Thinking
There is a show on Netflix called Churchill’s Secret Agents: The New Recruits. The reality show takes people from today…
Dana Penrice
Turning Everydayism on its Head
It is 8:30 am when I roll my sleepy self out of bed. Sorry people, I have yet to figure…
Dana Penrice
Perspective: The Rise of Trump
This past year, the Human Venture Institute has been exploring the rise of Donald Trump as the President of the…
Natalie Muyres
2017 Solstice Reflection
Here we are at the solstice once again, the day when the sun stands still, or at least seems to.…
Ken Low
Beyond Remembering
Remembrance Day originated as a memorial to members of commonwealth forces who died in the line of duty in the…
Ken Low
Life Ranging Kids: Power, Empowerment and Life Learning
What comes to mind when you think about power? Typically, first thoughts equate power with dominance, social status, wealth, or…
Ken Low
Learning to Die in the Anthropocene
Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization by Roy Scranton stirs one’s soul to…
Dana Penrice
Resistance and Human Venture Progress
Resistance is in the air of our continental next-door neighbour these days. The U.S. is navigating an unfolding adaptive shock…
Ken Low
Witness to the Revolution
The anti-war movement of the late sixties and early seventies was a short, intense period of social transformation. At the…
Dana Penrice
Stephane Hessel, The French Resistance, and the Human Venture
Born in France in 1917, Stephane Hessel experienced a time of great sorrow and great hope for humanity. When Marshal…
Anna-Marie Ashton
Resistance in Action
At the Human Venture Institute, we are committed to studying the common patterns in human striving, failure and achievement throughout…
Natalie Muyres
Truth, Understanding, and the Human Story: Whence Came This Mess?
Thoughtful people everywhere are deeply troubled by the 2016 American election, not just by the results, but the way the…
Ken Low
The Challenge of Truth in Reporting
A Book Review of Insane Clown President: Dispatches from the 2016 Circus by Matt Taibbi, and Liberty and the News…
Anna-Marie Ashton
Change the Story, Change the Future
Earlier in January, I had the pleasure of attending a lecture and a small group discussion at the University of…
Dana Penrice
Sy Montgomery
The Soul of an Octopus and Birdology bring you close to the animals that Sy Montgomery, a naturalist, so carefully…
Natalie Muyres
The Hidden Life of Trees
As we come to terms with human caused climate change and our ecological impact, we are re-awakening to an understanding…
Dana Penrice
2016 Solstice Reflection
The solstice season is here again: one of two seasonal turning points in our 940 million kilometer journey around the…
Ken Low
Reading for Life Learning
The winter brings us darker and colder days and nights. I love this time of year because it gives me…
Natalie Muyres
Human Learning Ecology in a Time of Unrest
As we are sorting through the recent events in America, it is important to recognize that this is a significant…
Dana Penrice