Yuli Miller

The most important cognitive skill of the 21st century is the ability to comprehend the implications of deep time through the lenses of physical, biological, and socio-cultural systems dynamics. Currently ~.001% of Humanity has sharpened this skill. Our survival requires more.

Where do you recommend folks start should they wish to develop this cognitive skill?

The absolute beginner should start with an accessible, high-level overview of everything we know about the history of the Universe, Life, and Human evolution. A Brief History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson would work. Then dig into complexity theory and follow your nose...

Fantastic advice. I'll check out Bill Bryson's work. Thanks!

No problem. Happy to help further if you want to dig into the systems dynamics part later, but without a broad contextual understanding of how everything has unfolded so far, systems and complexity theory often seems too abstract for most people to take seriously.

That would be wonderful! Thank you! I'll read up on the materials you recommended and brush up on Spiral Dynamics/Integral Theory first, but I'll be reaching out when ready to approach the systems/complexity aspects! The interplay is beyond my grasp ATM and I'd love a framework

Happy to talk SD. Have thoughts on that front. For example, the emerging #IntellectualDarkWeb of people like: @BretWeinstein @EricRWeinstein @RubinReport @benshapiro @jordanbpeterson Is best understood in the frame of an self-organizing net of Yellow tier 2 systematizers.