by Theo Edmonds, Culture Futurist™ Epigraph: “What you can plan is too small for you to live.” — From David Whyte’s “What to Remember When Waking” She kept the color blue in her front left pocket. The diamonds on her right hand would not be able to find it there. …

A Poem by Theo Edmonds, Culture Futurist You don’t wait for revelation when you pass the frontier Desire is truth here. That fiery stardust inside you has pulled you a step beyond Into a beyond place where you use up everything in service to joy Beyond the old stories you wove…

When we think of “founders” in the design innovation and artificial intelligence space, we often conjure images of craft beer on tap, maker spaces, and Silicon Valley tech conferences swimming with venture capitalists. However, these are just the latest manifestations of ideas owing part of their origin stories to a…

A Grappling Reflection after Club Q by Theo Edmonds, Culture Futurist In the last two days, we woke to another story of people out to kill other people for their audacity to live truthfully with joy. In the last sixty days, I also tragically lost a childhood friend. I had…

by Theo Edmonds, Culture Futurist A poem for those playing the infinite game. What prayer was said over me? A prayer that knew me better than those attempting to knit small words around an infinite frame. A prayer untethered to their names for me. The names they used to move my tongue into…

Epigraph: “A City upon a Hill” is a phrase from the parable of Salt and Light. It was cited at the end of Puritan John Winthrop’s lecture on “charity” delivered before his first group of Massachusetts Bay colonists embarked on the ship Arbella to settle Boston. Winthrop warned his fellow…

Exploring the limitations of light in a shining city on a hill. This (recently completed) draft is the final poem to a book I have been working on since 2009. The poetry book is a reflection on my experiences of a half-century navigating professional and personal life in American culture…

I like being happy. It feels good. But, I’m exhausted from trying to “get happy right” based on a formula. And, more often than not, feel like I’m failing miserably at it. I work with incredible scientists, economists, and creatives. So, I fully appreciate the benefits that happiness offers. My…

NOTE: The views expressed in this article are my own and do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of any entities with which I am affiliated. The WHY of Identity Everywhere I look, data suggests that we are in a mega-identity crisis. From our government to higher education, from corporations to urban/rural communities…