Ripple Across Time Awareness is a foundational trait of those embodying Systems Being.

Systems Being is beyond systems thinking and beyond systemic intelligence. It’s the ability to live in ways that are consistent with the way the universe works…and in ways that improve the health of the cosmos.

It seems like we are now facing a range of challenges more expansive than we faced even a few short years ago—it feels daunting. And the complexity of these issues is significantly more tangled and dynamic. Worse, the pace of complexity increasing is accelerating. In short, the persistent issues we face—what are defined as adaptive challenges—are complexifying. The only way we can get out in front of these challenges is to rapidly build our collective systemic intelligence (SysQ).

If you tune in to the Sunday morning economic pundits, you will hear differing opinions about inflation. It’s here. It’s coming. It’s the current President’s fault. No, it’s the previous President’s. What’s going on? A writer friend of mine—excited to be publishing their book—lamented the other day, “I never thought I’d try to sell a new book in a time when printing paper was hard to find.” You’d think in a digital age there would be plenty of paper. Why the paper shortage? And more importantly, how might these seemingly disparate issues be related?

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