Thanks @rufuspollock . This response is going to set up an additional response to this other thread (What would you spend a billion dollars on? (to advance the Second Renaissance)), because before my proposal to spend $1 billion, it strikes me as desirable to have a change theory and a change process somewhat worked out.
As I shared with the class last night, the whole Ikigai workshop model occurred to me on snowshoes, on a mountain hike, a couple weeks into the current Trump administration, as a personal answer to “what does the world need?”, and more specifically, “what does the world need from me?”. The problem I was struggling with was how to pivot away from extended metatheory debates (with one 2 hour YouTube after the other), to an action program ordinary people can understand without needing the equivalent of a graduate degree or more. The “ah ha” moment was when I realized all the metatheory in the world can be subsumed by the question “what does the world need?”. Moreover, it’s not especially important that we all have unified views on “what the world needs”. All that is required is that any given person have a perspectival reference frame on what the world needs, undertakes some exploratory action from that POV, and then refines both the reference frame and action program based on feedback from results. This creates a virtuous cycle of continuous improvement . My hypothesis is that world views will converge at some point as horizons expand, but we don’t need a fully worked out world-theory to get started, we just need to get started. So my $1 billion proposal will be to fund taking that process to scale. More in the relevant thread …