Gil Friend’s Blog

BIG SUSTAINABILITY NEWS? The big "sustainability" news this summer—aside from fires, floods, the hottest temperature ever recorded on earth, death threats against weathermen, and Ron DeSantis denouncing Fireman's Fund for actually doing the actuarial math (while...

July 4, 2023 Declarations • Exponential Change • Between Worlds DECLARATIONS It's a tradition at our house to honor the Fourth of July holiday by reading The Declaration of Independence—out loud! Not just for its historical resonance, but as a reminder of the power of...

Life shrinks, or expands, in proportion to one’s courage. -Anaïs Nin WHAT IF YOU HAD TO? Indulge me for a moment. Yes, I know you're an accomplished and pragmatic person (perhaps an executive at a fine company), with a record of getting things done. Even breakthrough...

May 30, 2023 We are called not to live in the world we are given to, but to live in the world that we are in the process of making. - Lee Weissman Dear [First Name ##cap_lower], Well, it happened again today. Bright, eager, undergraduate inventor/entrepreneurs, fired...

It started simply enough. I retweeted the chart you see above over on the bird site, with a comment about #decoupling . Then I reposted it here, on LinkedIn, with the expanded observation that: It's called #decoupling. Some still doubt it, but there's no physics-based...

Yeah, AIs "hallucinate." So do you! Not that there's anything wrong with that. I do too. We all do. We're assessment making beings——constantly, inescapably constructing interpretations of events, people, motives, ourselves, etc. We can do no other. (As Peter...

Just a short note this time; I've got lots to tell you about but also lots keeping me from doing it. So more to come…and hopefully we'll soon return to a weekly rhythm. IS IT HOT IN HERE? - It sure is! The hottest temperatures ever recorded in Laos and Vietnam. 90% of...

WHEN "THE PLANET" IS ON YOUR TO-DO LIST Before diving back into energy transitions, ESG, and regenerative finance, let me ask you this: Do you often find yourself overwhelmed by your "to do" list? (Especially when your mission is big? Or very, very big? Like...

Tipping Points I've long been fascinated with the question of how change happens. We’ve talked, in prior sessions of Living Between Worlds, about theories of change from people as diverse as Varoufakis, Spinosa/Flores/Dreyfus, Meadows, and Sunstein, who observes that...