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Occasional reflections on service, inner transformation, and life’s serendipities. You can also wander through recent talks and articles.

August 2026

What's emerging around ServiceSpace?

What's emerging around ServiceSpace?  See  roadmap  -- for holding circles (supported by Circle Agent AI + Service Agent AI) to cultivate collective heart intelligence (CHI). For context, there's  12 essays  from earlier this year and a few SSp  newsletters . What about Pods? Our platform has been massively  upgraded , creating conditions for the fields to  teach itself , and continues to be generative engine for all kinds of uncommon  ripples . Post-pod  Metta Circles have shown huge promise, with our Circle Agent.…

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May 2026

Recent Essays of 2026

Earlier this year, an acupuncturist placed a needle no thicker than a whisper, and something unblocked. That same week, OpenAI announced ads in ChatGPT. The dissonance between those two events — one ancient, one arriving at the speed of capital — became the first essay. Then the next.…

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March 2026

Harvard Case: Designing for Generosity

I was recently at Harvard for a few events, including Harvard Business School talk. Prior to the event, they created this caselet that was distributed to students. Joy in Service: Nipun Mehta on Designing for Generosity An excerpt: The two pillars of my life are meditation and…

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February 2026

Be The Antenna

A glove does not decide what shape a hand should be. It receives one. This is the entire curriculum. There is a jellyfish called the moon jelly that has no brain and no plan. It pulses. The ocean does the rest — delivering it to phosphorescence, to plankton, to the particular corridor…

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February 2026

The Game That Ends in Grace

[A conversation with my acupuncturist yesterday wandered into unexpected territory. Then this morning, a viral dating app and OpenAI's social ambitions landed in my feed. The resonance and dissonance between them wrestle below. :)] There is a force that moves through all living things…

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February 2026

25 Years of Love Logic

An excerpt from our latest newsletter ... A lotus doubles every day. For twenty days, the pond still looks empty. On day twenty-five, only three percent of the surface shows green—you would say nothing is happening. On day twenty-nine: half-covered. Day thirty: full. We keep…

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January 2026

An AI Manifesto for Our Times

Earlier this month, 500+ podmates from 45 countries held difficult questions together in our AI + Wisdom pod. As we collectively grappled with what feels like a "species moment", I wrote a manifesto around  Deep Data  — "the wisdom encoded in our bodies, our intuitions, our…

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January 2026

Love Logic: Our Theory of Change

Small acts of service open us. An open heart coheres, and when coherent hearts gather, conditions arise for something nonlinear to emerge. The starlings don't plan the murmuration. Each bird watches seven neighbors—and the pattern emerges that none could choreograph.  Collective…

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December 2025

'Tis the Season -- to Launch Websites :)

We've just pushed out six substantial website revamps: ServiceSpace -- the mother ships. :) DailyGood -- now combines all our content portals. Karma Kitchen -- our gift economy portal. cShops -- a marketplace that accepts multiple forms of capital. Pods -- a…

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November 2025

Gandhi 3.0 Grace

It's completely unpredictable. And yet completely reliable. The powerful convergence of our  Gandhi 3.0 Retreat ! Like new. And ancient. Below are images from January 2025 that I was just reminded of ...   Immersions Video  

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