The Stoa | Metacrisis Literacy w/ Josh Williams @thestoa | Uploaded September 2023 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
What is the Metacrisis? Or the meta-crisis? Don't we already have the polycrisis? What about The Meaning Crisis? Or about the climate crisis right now?! These are relevant questions, as are many others. And if you've been *listening* lately, you don't really need these terms to know something isn't right. But you probably want to talk about it with someone, and maybe you don't know if you should, or if you can, or if you know how to. You might just want to know for yourself, "what the heck is going on?" and "is there anything I can do about it?". Josh falls into all those buckets too; so he tried to summarize hours of podcasts and readings into something for newcomers to global risk and seasoned sense-makers alike. Josh emphasizes that he isn't an expert and that this presentation should sit at the beginning of one's journey to understand these ideas.
Metacrisis literacy will be increasingly important now and in the future, and Josh hopes we can work together on this collective endeavour to find the language that bridges divides. This presentation is Josh's contribution and attempt to create a minimum viable scaffolding—a potential starting point to crystallize Metacrisis literacy. To that end, the comment section is enabled. If you're willing and able, we encourage you to contribute to this experiment in collective intelligence at The Stoa. See [1:00:07] for suggestions on how best to contribute.
By way of introduction: Josh Williams is a multidisciplinary problem-solver, having worked over six years as a strategy consultant across a variety of enterprise functions in both civil society and the private sector. Outside of work, Josh is keen to explore pragmatic systems & tools, of both governance and economics, that are conducive to civic virtue, ethical tech, and risk reduction. Josh values humility, integrity, humanism, pluralism, curiosity, and much more. You can reach him directly through Twitter or LinkedIn, or at his personal site: sites.google.com/view/joshuadwilliams
For reference to the full slide deck and the online-only material excluded from the talk, go here: sites.google.com/view/intro-to-the-metacrisis
What is the Metacrisis? Or the meta-crisis? Don't we already have the polycrisis? What about The Meaning Crisis? Or about the climate crisis right now?! These are relevant questions, as are many others. And if you've been *listening* lately, you don't really need these terms to know something isn't right. But you probably want to talk about it with someone, and maybe you don't know if you should, or if you can, or if you know how to. You might just want to know for yourself, "what the heck is going on?" and "is there anything I can do about it?". Josh falls into all those buckets too; so he tried to summarize hours of podcasts and readings into something for newcomers to global risk and seasoned sense-makers alike. Josh emphasizes that he isn't an expert and that this presentation should sit at the beginning of one's journey to understand these ideas.
Metacrisis literacy will be increasingly important now and in the future, and Josh hopes we can work together on this collective endeavour to find the language that bridges divides. This presentation is Josh's contribution and attempt to create a minimum viable scaffolding—a potential starting point to crystallize Metacrisis literacy. To that end, the comment section is enabled. If you're willing and able, we encourage you to contribute to this experiment in collective intelligence at The Stoa. See [1:00:07] for suggestions on how best to contribute.
By way of introduction: Josh Williams is a multidisciplinary problem-solver, having worked over six years as a strategy consultant across a variety of enterprise functions in both civil society and the private sector. Outside of work, Josh is keen to explore pragmatic systems & tools, of both governance and economics, that are conducive to civic virtue, ethical tech, and risk reduction. Josh values humility, integrity, humanism, pluralism, curiosity, and much more. You can reach him directly through Twitter or LinkedIn, or at his personal site: sites.google.com/view/joshuadwilliams
For reference to the full slide deck and the online-only material excluded from the talk, go here: sites.google.com/view/intro-to-the-metacrisis
