In Six Memos for the Next Millennium, the posthumously published book of lectures Italo Calvino almost lived long enough to deliver in 1985-86 (as part of the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard), Calvino defined exactitude as:
(1) a well-defined and well-calculated plan for the work in question;
(2) an evocation of clear, incisive, memorable visual images; [...]

Our collective inability to master slow modalities of cognition, and thus to embody wisdom, has made it exponentially more difficult to stabilize the economy, make peace with the environment, create trust among people and nations, and minimize the climate crisis.
To better mitigate these interrelated risks to humanity, we may have needed to be able to [...]

Last week, thanks to Stephanie Rieger's kind recommendation, I was interviewed by Henriette Weber Kristiansen (based in Copenhagen, Denmark) and Duarte Velez Grilo (based in Lisbon, Portugal) for Geek Army Knife, a playful, engaging podcast that Henriette once referred to (tongue firmly in cheek) as the "the most useful podcast in the WORLD!"
The questions-what is [...]

"The worse things get the more delusional we’ll get because that’s what we do in crises: we get delusional."
- James Howard Kunstler, from No Impact Man blog
It's an anxious time. As a collective, humanity doesn't know how the macroeconomic situation will evolve, nor is it certain whether action on a large-enough scale to limit [...]