The old map stopped working. Let's draw a new one.

Sun Dance, sangoma, dervishes

For over a decade I studied how people pass through the end of their world. The Sun Dance among the Blackfoot in Canada. African sangoma, Siberian shamans, Sufi dervishes, Buddhist monasteries. Cultures thousands of kilometres apart, and the same pattern in each.

1. 1CollapseThe old order loses its power.
2. 2DisorientationThe old maps stop guiding you.
3. 3ExperimentYou try new ways of acting.
4. 4New identitySomeone you have not yet been emerges.

Decisions you pay for in public

Then nearly a decade in politics: advising prime ministers and ministers, election campaigns. A few months after 9/11, work in Afghanistan with negotiators and tribal leaders.

Where the map ends, nobody asks for a slide deck.

Same threshold, new name: AI

For a decade I have worked with people building AGI and humanoid robots. With David Hanson, creator of the android Sophia, I co-founded GAIA. In Davos GAIA received the Responsible Innovation Award from Ahura AI. Here technology runs faster than the way we think, and the way we think is what I work with.