Facing the Future

Collective Ikigai is a good idea. My spin is a bit different, because I wanted a very stripped-down, minimalist model, specifically for situations of collective chaos: Chaos Compass: Career Navigation for Turbulent Times | by Robert Bunge | Medium
To get there, I let go of all the Ikigai Venn diagram subtlety and just went with the four key questions. Of these, of course, “what can you get paid for?” rings false for organizations that aspire to post-growth, post-capitalism, spiritual purpose, pro-social, etc. If reflection on the question “what the world needs” results in non-monetary objectives, then my recommendation for individuals or collectives is to tweak the idea of “get paid” into the notion of “get results”. In other words, will our intended actions produce the outcomes we are intending? That question overlaps quite a bit with what Effective Altruism claims to be doing, or what A path from Effective Altruism to Second Renaissance (Pragmatic Utopianism) may be be doing better than EA can.