Dots, not dashes

You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.

Steve Jobs

When things around us seem deeply uncertain, and none of us understands what happens next, our best option is to become a dot.

A dot is a perspective, an opinion, an insight or an idea, grounded in generosity, freely shared without expecting a result—a piece of a jigsaw when we cannot see the picture on the lid.

Each of us sees the world differently, right down to the level of reading this. We have a choice; we can believe we are right and put everybody else straight, or we can contribute our view to a collective pot and together try to make sense of it.

This option is a challenge. We have created a society that prioritises easy answers over difficult questions and difficult questions over quiet observation. Providing answers, whether or not they …