Occasional reflections on service, inner transformation, and life’s serendipities. You can also wander through recent talks and articles.
September 2026
Sheryn reminded of a beautiful 2023 trip to Austria, where I managed to land, but my bag didn't. Having no suitable clothes for a formal event, local community folks gifted me a shirt, belt, jacket, everything -- so I could share some stories at a fancy, public event. And it became a happy moment right when I had this thought that my ephemeral “I” is held up by pieces of so many people’s hearts.
Read →August 2026
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…
Read →May 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.…
Read →March 2026
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…
Read →February 2026
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…
Read →February 2026
[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…
Read →February 2026
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…
Read →January 2026
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…
Read →January 2026
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…
Read →December 2025
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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