Making Sense of Culture Amidst Contradiction

For an organization to operate within society, it must be not just be mindful, but active in these changes — or “tending.” Failure to do so results in lack of resonance and more dire: disruption .

There is no one “singular culture.” Personal perception is the other key variable here.

these “cultures” are ever-evolving . (Latin ‘cultura’ = grow, tend, cultivate, to care)

Overtime we’ve begun to treat this nuance and ambiguity as friction and something to program out. Computers don’t like it. Algorithms can’t categorize it. So we remove it.

Yet we so desperately need this “in between” and neither “yes” nor “no” thinking.

Our moment is a war of competing myths.

The future belongs to those who write it — as always — for better or worse.

Brian Lange puts it brilliantly: “Transaction is identity exchange.”

Consumers exchange capital for identity, and makers exchange their time, labor and expression for the goods or services they sell. Commerce is a continuous exchange of identities.

Do the dichotomies of reason vs. feeling, objectivity vs. subjectivity, man vs. machine, and physics vs. metaphysics still make sense?

MK: This is the computer-thinking speaking. These are binaries . 0’s and 1’s are for computers, and arguably should only be for computers.

I thoroughly believe, alongside thinkers like Douglas Rushkoff, that we must ... See more

Attempting to define, quantify and strategize around the zeitgeist is a game of tag. That’s what we’re after. That’s the Sisyphean task. It’s utterly daunting and exhausting, but that challenge is also where the opportunity (and fun) lies.

Acknowledging this bias or incompleteness is perhaps the most important part of the work.

Answers are mere theory.