Hospices, Heresy and Coffee Shops.

The conversations we need.

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Something strikes me as telling about the current discourse in our politics and business. There is no real conversation, just diatribes. There is no real innovation, just those trying to sell a form of interior design of existing structures.

There seem to be no real heretics, pirates, or poachers offering alternatives, and we find ourselves stuck with the bland assertions of the economic interior designers and the rhetoric of those who want to occupy the current structure.

Perhaps we have become so obsessed with efficiency, productivity, and “correctness” that there is no space for conversations that provoke thinking and dialogue rather than defensive dogma.

Which means there is little of the generative friction from which innovation springs. It is easier to extend existing technologies into new areas. More social media and trading platforms, at the expense of creative approaches to the major issues we are facing.

“There are boundaries in nature. The…