Culture
Weekend Edition: Something new about this version of the same old violence?
The ways that our accelerating and evolving political violence feels familiar and the subtle ways it feels new are clues to our history and to a different future.
Michael Slaby
Proven leader across nonprofits, startups, politics, and government. Committed to reclaiming the culture and practice of civic life and the design, development, and emergence of a generative society.
Democracy
Weekend Edition: Redistricting or realignment?
The ongoing argument over mid-census redistricting as a regular political strategy may have irreversible consequences well-beyond the short-term strategic gains both Republicans and Democrats are seeking.
Economics
Proximity to precarity
Inequality is making society less creative and makes embracing an abundance mindset (much less an abundance agenda) more difficult.
Culture
Weekend Edition: AI-powered vs AI-empowered
In the breathless race to become an ai-powered society, have we missed the step of becoming AI-literate enough to be AI-empowered without becoming AI-driven?
Politics
More analysis on what happened in 2024 that might point to why
The how matters. Understanding how the electorate changed matters, but reflecting and embracing the deeper why's is the better guide for how to reimagine the Democratic Party and our campaigns.
Generative Society
Mothering
What might mothers and mothering reveal to us about a better model for economic kindness and innovation?
Weekend Edition: The Disenchanted, the Misenchanted, and the Re-enchantment of America
How we think about what's not working in our civic life might offer a very different long-term path to something better even while the short-term demands we live in and confront our unrelentingly dysfunctional present as directly as we can.
Strategy
Culture eats strategy for breakfast
We've probably all heard this quippy, quotable faux-Drukcer-ism. (And maybe I'm just thinking about Easter brunch...) But why might this old cliche actually be true and how might that help illuminate what's happening and maybe not happening in our teams and organizations right now?
Politics
Weekend Edition: I do not think this word means what you think it means...
What does "moderate" or a "Moderate" or "to moderate" really mean in American civic life? Even if we could figure out which one means what, I don't think it's the guide we need.
Culture
Even more abundant
Let's start with the assumptions about the smallness of a zero-sum mindset and the ambition of abundance for everyone ... and then keep going.
Politics
Our search for leadership
How we look for leadership matters. Replacing Sen. Schumer as the Senate minority leader might be warranted (even needed) but isn't the right answer to the right question we should be asking about the leadership we need right now.
Slouching toward a zero-context culture
We are headed down an AI-accelerated path toward hyper-efficient society and teams that lack the openness, freedom, and creativity of high-context cultures.