Friends, I hope you had a good week.
I really enjoyed discovering the new public, direction deck from Space 10 (IKEA’s research lab).
↳ Space 10 Direction
I find this kind of tethered, and independent labs to be a fascinating model. I was lucky to work in similar environments, and the mix of innovation, communication, and org’ design this kind of work calls for is very left and right brain.
I had some friends for dinner to discuss the connection between solitude and creativity. This was before COVID obviously, as this was gradually becoming a larger part of our lives I started reading more Mary Sutton, Adam Phillips, and revisiting Winnicott.
In a 2018 report by the Kaiser Family Foundation, 22 percent of all adults in the US — almost 60 million Americans — said they often or always felt lonely or socially isolated. The problem is even more concentrated among older adults: A major National Academies of Sciences report from February found that a little more than a third of adults over the age of 45, and 43 percent of adults over 60, felt lonely (other surveys have returned similar results).
↳ Former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy on America’s loneliness epidemic
I am working on a new project around managing people in solitude, including a white paper, which I will share in the coming weeks.
Gary Bolles is a consultant, speaker, and chair for the Future of Work at Singularity University. We connected through a Collective Intelligence talk I gave for i4J and I invited him to share this thought on catalyzing movements.
His ability to make future trends visible today is inspiring, I particularly enjoyed his piece on education and the future of work:
↳ Unbundling Higher Education
This week I wanted to repost my 10 principles of generous design:
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