"May You Live in Interesting Times" by John Cruickshank
Congratulations and kudos to John Cruickshank on his January 30, 2021 Owl & Ibis presentation, "May You Live in Interesting Times!" Here is a link to a PDF of John's presentation: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1h_oWiLC2uC4j8qKTqBHEGS3TKVXlXdMg/view?usp=sharing Here's a link to the articles in John's presentation, as he promised: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/114GDOKzMTg-dwUUs2ZVxK2U6N1T5TfYG?usp=sharing The approach John took - going to the experts but engaging them in a manner that made sense to him, and in a way that challenged him to re-examine his various points of view and his overall worldview - is an approach other members of the Confluence also use. To me, this method goes to the essence of why I started O&I in the first place. There are tons of experts in the world whose ideas we could capture and display before each other. But unless we take some time and dig deeper, that is, deeper into how the experts' ideas impact and move our h