The 17 Things I Am 100% Certain About
Frankly #60
What are you absolutely certain of? Today, I’d like to offer a list of things I am absolutely certain of… or as certain as any human can be.
Each of us has grounding beliefs about the reality around us with which we shape our outlook on the world and how we’d like to interact with it. How will planetary and energetic limits interact with human society and culture in the future? Can we recognize truisms about our world without becoming closed off to ways of learning and understanding? What are the fundamental realities of the world around us - and how do they constrain our pathways for the future?
In case you missed it…
Global strategist Michael Every joined me this past week to discuss global macro trends in economics, politics, and social movements along with what sorts of ‘-isms’ might be in store in the future. By taking a wide-view lens of current events, we can better see how seemingly isolated events interconnect and what mainstream economic theories tend to miss. What can we learn from current economic models as we steer towards a new system with lower energy throughput in a multipolar world?
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Nate, this is my favourite episode you have done - funny and deep all at once. It is a lovely high level view of where you stand. Forces me to ask the questions, where do I agree, where do I disagree. Some lovely threads come through, especially about our assumptions around what the outcome of some of the facts are - it may be a fact that we are heading for seemly dire events but the outcomes can still be benign or positive - that is up to us! Thank you xo
This synthesized thinking is so important right now