Gil Friend’s Blog
Road Test Our New AI! • COP28 Redux • Coaching or Mentoring?
REMINDER: ROAD TEST OUR NEW AI! This Wednesday (at noon Pacific time) we'll preview the AI that we’ve trained on four years of LIving Between Worlds conversations. Please join us to kick the tires, run its through its paces, and guide us on where (and whether) to go...
COP…or COPOUT? • An LBW LLM • 2024…already?!
COP… OR COPOUT? I’ll have more to say about the 28th UN Conference of the Parties (a/k/a COP28) once it ends. (There always seem to be some surprises near the end.) But for the moment, a few questions: "Why consensus," some have asked, rather than agreements among the...
Thankfulness, even now • “Change is hard.” It takes practice! • Asking your advice
Thankfulness Yes, it can seem hard to sustain a mood of gratitude, especially these days. It takes practice. That’s why we have these ritual opportunities. Not just to feast, not just to feast together. To take a moment, a scheduled moment, to feel and speak, to...
How about an “energy transition” — at 18% ROI! Plus: changing habits
Have you ever tried to change a habit? Have you ever tried to change your spouse's habits? Your child's? Ten people in your company? Or 100? Or 100,000? It’s hard. And yet it’s done. But you have to make the commitment, and do the work. This is true at the macro...
An AI Between Worlds • What “a good company” isn’t and is. • Solutions Summit
ESG, BSAU & THE QUEST FOR THE GOOD There's been lots of ruckus over on LinkedIn about ESG, and in particular the many emerging schemas for measuring it—but with no clear agreement about what "it" is. To oversimplify: the dominant standards player—the International...
Transforming Everything…Everywhere…All At Once!
Transformation • Thinking for Ourselves • Nora & Daniel • Learning & Moods • Dancing in the World • What we've got for you Alongside transformation, tangled up with transformation—the energy transformation, the transformation of an entire planet, the...
That Makes No Sense!
When the dollars make no sense • Stop making "sense-making" Impact investing? Maybe not! • Some things we can do together MAKING NO SENSE A long, long time ago Edwin Karpf, my high school social studies teacher, would frequently remind us that "Figures don't lie, but...
Stop making sense-making • Do protests work? • Where does that leave you?
The Jewish High Holidays always offer me an opportunity for deep and often meaningful reflection, on both my personal path and the journey we're all on together. (Happy New Year to all who observe!) Here's some of what's on my mind these days. WHEN SENSE-MAKING MAKES...
What a summer! • No plans?! • So what is to be done?
What a summer! I remember my astonishment, in the early days of COVID, when people in New Delhi reported that they could see the Himalayas for the first time in more than 30 years. One of the early markers of the new normal, as people liked to call it. But before long...