In 2025, AI use cases are shifting from technical tasks to human needs. Therapy is now the #1 use, followed by organizing life and finding purpose. Gen AI is becoming a tool for emotional support, self-actualization, and personal growth—not just productivity.
#AI #GenAI #UseCases #Purpose #FutureOfWork #llm
https://hbr.org/2025/04/how-people-are-really-using-gen-ai-in-2025
We're excited about the upcoming #sociocracy conference THIS WEEK.
https://www.sociocracyforall.org/sociocracy-conference-2025/
#socialchange #socialinnovation #socinn #governance #decisionmaking #socialsystems
For people from #nonprofit #business #leadership #doinggood #purpose #education #NGO #forpurpose #coop
“…cells and organisms don’t just passively follow genetic algorithms—they act with creative agency and purpose, even intelligence.”
—Matthew Segall, Is There A Metaphysical Revolution Afoot in Natural Science?
https://footnotes2plato.substack.com/p/is-there-a-metaphysical-revolution
#cells #organisms #creativity #purpose #intelligence
Happy Tuesday….Love, Fisher Steall
“Pets are humanizing. They remind us we have an obligation and responsibility to preserve and nurture and care for all life.” ~James Cromwell
#dogs #cats #happiness #photography #compassion #kindness #love #gratitude #purpose #tenacity #catsofbluesky #dogsofbluesky
Day ten cont 
“We have hit a tipping point where the civil rights of an #individual need to be put aside for the #CivilRights of a #community. When a community doesn’t feel #safe, you have to act and you have to make sure there’s a #deterrent and a #consequence.
In my home state again [#Queensland], I would encourage every state to do this, we’re going back to #outback camps where we are rebuilding these young people with a life #skill. Not putting them behind barbed wire but sending them to remote places, giving them a skill and #purpose in life.” — David Littleproud
The National leadership is roaring to the press.
A reminder, my daddy was a State National MP and Minister. I’m from Queensland and our ideas need to be heard across the nation.
#LNP / #Liberal / #Littleproud / #rights / #Youth / #Justice <https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2025/apr/08/australia-election-2025-live-election-2025-live-coalition-labor-federal-peter-dutton-anthony-albanese-share-markets-economy-mental-health-prepare-debate-ntwnfb?page=with%3Ablock-67f4ab468f08e0f1eb0325d5#block-67f4ab468f08e0f1eb0325d5>
If we want a different world, we MUST have a cultural shift in which we agree to a new social contract.
We must agree that:
1.) The truth *matters*.
Peer-reviewed, rigorous scientific endeavor is valuable.
Evidence-based study is valuable.
Both must be wielded with compassion, and with the input of all being affected.
We cannot make decisions rooted in greed, insecurities, and harmful ignorance any longer.
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I don't understand the kind of ghoul you want me to be.
No, it is NOT a good system, just because others got hurt worse than me.
The fact that others get hurt worse than me, and are struggling more than me, is an INDICTMENT of immense proportions. Not a redemption of the systems causing it.
It's really wild to me that, when I point to our economic system and hierarchies and condemn the damage that they've done to me and to my life, there are people who would scoff and say, "Yeah well, it COULD have been so much worse though! You got off easy, considering!"
Is that…supposed to make it better?
Should I really be grateful for that?
DOESN'T THAT MAKE IT WORSE??
Veterans understand the concept "sacrifice," and the nature of the service results in military #humor: "the stories, the pranks, and the #laughter that made it bearable”, a way to promote #criticalthinking in a hierarchy and #institutions which both value and need people to question the #purpose of what they are doing every day that orders are given and meant to be followed.
The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
-- Robert Byrne
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Many people want to see their organizations in alignment with their #values - but how doesn't one actually do that? 
Here's a take by Ted Rau on how practices like #sociocracy help us align better with who we want to be! 
>> www.sociocracyforall.org/event/living...
#purpose : that which a person sets before himself as an object to be reached or accomplished
- French: propos
- Italian: proposito
- Portuguese: propósito
- Spanish: propósito
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Habe mich an einer kleinen Rezension von Rutger Bregmans neuem Buch "Moralische Ambition: Wie man aufhört, sein Talent zu vergeuden, und etwas schafft, das wirklich zählt" probiert. Natürlich nur ein persönlicher Take, wäre auf weitere Meinungen gespannt. 
https://www.workwhileclimate.at/follow-your-passion-is-a-terrible-advice-rutger-bregman-startet-die-school-for-moral-ambition-mit-neuem-buch/
"Intentional kindness: humanity's superpower" - Futurist Jim Carroll, with a shoutout to Drew Sullivan, APB Speakers
The image in today's Inspiration features my good friend Michael Simon; the phrase, "intentional kindness," comes from one of my speaker bureau agents, Drew Sullivan. One teaches us the importance of finding moments of joy when we need it most and the importance of 'giving back'; the other involves intentionally making those moments of joy for others because they truly matter.
It's a long post, but I want you to read it.
Why? We seem to be living in a world in which the core values of human decency seem to be disappearing at the speed with which societal norms are unraveling. As an example, I have read that one of the latest trends with the tech oligarchs - folks like Elon Musk and the young men who worship them - is that they find it to be fashionable to use denigrating words and phrases. They seem to think that it is all one big joke and that somehow, this provides them a boost to their 'machismo' - far from it. Most recently, their childish immaturity has extended to the regular use of the 'retard,' as if that somehow empowers them and makes them stronger
I do not know what darkness lies in the depths of their soul, but I know I and others will fight this darkness with all our might.
So let me start with my friend Michael. Here's a photo from a few weeks ago when we were both wrapping up a wonderful ski day.
I've known Michael since he was 2 years old.
Now 29, he is a special needs young adult who has a unique genetic condition that has limited his full abilities - and yet, he has achieved capabilities that experts have said might never be possible. It was said he could never ski - he learned to ski. It was said he would never be able to master a snowboard. Today, he 'shreds' with the best of them.
He has accomplished many other things in his life - and he has the most infectious smile of any person I have ever known.
You can't see Michael smile and, in these moments of despair, worry, and concern, find some joy some sort of joy creeping into your own heart. Michael's smile is a crucible of joy and a cauldron of inspiration.
We all need more moments like this. We should all find the joy around us because those are the moments that matter. You can help to 'generate it by getting involved, giving back, and supporting those who are under attack, marginalized, or who need attention and help. That's why social causes are even more important today than they were before.
Read the rest of the post.
#Kindness #Humanity #Empathy #Connection #Compassion #Community #Joy #Purpose #Resilience #Intentionality
Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2025/03/daily-inspiration-giving-back-intentional-kindness-humanitys-superpower/
Is the #purpose of the #USA #OvalOffice for #Theater #entertainment? #Explanations can be #helpful.
Hear Bernadette Wesley at this year's #sociocracy conference on April 24!
See the program: https://www.sociocracyforall.org/sociocracy-conference-2025/
Join us for our #sociocracy conference on April 24 - in exactly 8 weeks!
www.sociocracyforall.org/sociocracy-c...
FEB 20 = Trans Masculine Pride & Visibility Day ! We see you, we love you, we honor you today and every day. LGBTQ+ people TOGETHER will fight off recent attacks & restore the rights & freedoms that trans-masculine folks deserve.
#GQP #GOP #conservatives #attack the #most #vulnerable #among #us for #political #gain #fascists #cruelty is the #purpose #fascism #USA #LGBTQ #rights #are #human rights #transsexual #trans #trannie #TransMasc #masculine #feminine #bisexual #gay https://therustintimes.com/2024/02/22/celebrating-transmasculine-pride-and-visibility-day/
A quotation from Marcus Aurelius
We were born for cooperation, like feet, like hands, like eyelids, like the rows of upper and lower teeth. So to work against each other is contrary to nature; and resentment and rejection count as working against someone.
[γεγόναμεν γὰρ πρὸς συνεργίαν ὡς πόδες, ὡς χεῖρες, ὡς βλέφαρα, ὡς οἱ στοῖχοι τῶν ἄνω καὶ κάτω ὀδόντων. τὸ οὖν ἀντιπράσσειν ἀλλήλοις παρὰ φύσιν: ἀντιπρακτικὸν δὲ τὸ ἀγανακτεῖν καὶ ἀποστρέφεσθαι.]
Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν], Book 2, ch. 1 (2.1) [tr. Gill (2013)]
Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/marcus-aureleus/7491…
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