AI Cannot Resolve Human Conflict

AI Cannot Resolve Human Conflict

Can AI Carry Human Conflict? Jack Dorsey and Roelof Botha published an essay called “From Hierarchy to Intelligence” at the end of March, and the part I find most interesting is not the headline claim about middle management going away. It is a smaller passage near...
Conflict Resolution – Monday Night Live with Derek Arden

Conflict Resolution – Monday Night Live with Derek Arden

Youtube Derek Arden: Welcome to Monday Night Live, the podcast that goes all around the world on YouTube. Tonight I’ve got Anna Lecat with me. Anna is in Paris at the moment, and Anna has traveled the world. Let me tell you a little bit about Anna’s extraordinary...
Twenty-Five Years of Disagreeing Well

Twenty-Five Years of Disagreeing Well

“We are opposites in everything,” he said. “Social backgrounds, lifestyle, politics. If we had met at a dinner party, we probably would not have become friends.” They have been business partners for 25 years. Let me back up. I had asked him the...
He Never Flies. She Never Stays.

He Never Flies. She Never Stays.

A woman told me this about her boyfriend of three years while trying to explain how two people with fundamentally opposite views on how the world should work can wake up every morning and choose each other again. Let me back up. I have been collecting stories for...
Four Cultures, One Kitchen Table

Four Cultures, One Kitchen Table

“I’m not sure I understand or agree with this,” my mother said to me last Tuesday. She was watching my daughter negotiate her own bedtime. In my mother’s world, children don’t negotiate. Parents decide, children obey, and the structure keeps everyone...