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. Then the next. Each one asked the same question from a different doorway: what remains uniquely human in an age of artificial intelligence?
What follows is a guide to the series (written since Jan 2026) — not a summary, because these essays resist summarizing the way a forest resists…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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November 2025
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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October 2025
In a back-to-back retreat across continent, we just ended a gorgeous retreat with change-makers from 18 European countries for our first Awakin Europe Retreat. Below are a couple offerings from the media team ...
Here's our sacred meeting space, with emptiness at the…
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September 2025
What an unforgettable Awakin Retreat! Dubbed the 'Bodhisattva Retreat,' it was held at Redwood Vihara Monastery and brought together some truly remarkable human beings — from Rev. Heng Sure, Vanessa Andreotti, Gary Zukav, Evan Sharp, Srinija Srinivasan, and Richie Davidson to Rebecca…
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