Hello! I found this community through Matthew McCarthy, a fellow substacker whose writing overlaps with mine. I am a physicist by education, and two years ago I quit my job as co-founder and chief data scientist at a Norwegian health-tech startup with the aim of finding my “true path”. This has led me on a journey of philosophical and scientific exploration, self-development and inner work, and the writing of an essay series published on https://tmfow.substack.com/.
My work can be divided into three phases. The first phase outlines a view of reality as a whole, a holistic philosophy grounded in the primacy of experience. After having learnt about metamodernism I have realized this view is a metamodern philosophy. The second phase looks at the metacrisis through the lens of this view, identifying at its heart “wicked loops”, a dynamic between world view dissonance, limited designs and traps in cognition and cooperative landscapes.
The third phase goes under the heading The Wisdom Initiative. I will publish a separate post on this forum about this, but in brief, The Wisdom Initiative started to take root upon realizing that common to all meaningful approaches to the metacrisis is wisdom cultivation. Wisdom cultivation is not about proposing solutions. It is about nurturing the capacities within and between us that allow for deeper discernment, long-term vision, and ethical action—qualities that our world seems to be in dire need of today. Unlike skills or capacities that are instrumentalized for other ends, wisdom is cultivated for its own sake. It is as such a virtue, and its decline in the world is evident in the challenges we face.
I also recently became a dad for the first time, and am currently actively on the lookout for employment in the space of holistic, interdisciplinary approaches to the metacrisis and the state of our society. Looking forward to see if any resonances occur in this community 