Reflections 25th July

What's been on my mind this week.

I've been thinking about phase change this week. The sense of it has been present in conversations, in what I've been reading, listening to and watching. The idea of it has provided a thread that has connected all of them.

Phase changes that are brought about not by spikes in energy but instead through exponential change. From solid to liquid to gas, from emotion to energy, observation to orientation, and awareness to action. There is something of the alchemical about it. We find ourselves in a liminal space as the old slowly and reluctantly dissolves, whilst the new is emerging but has not yet taken recognisable form.

We know the "what" of the problems we face, from climate change to inequality, and it is the "how" of the way we address them that is changing. 

 I have always found that people are not resistant to change but resistant to coercion - even when it is as subtle as a "nudge". A nudge is still somebody trying to get us to go in a direction they…