Author Archives: Harry van der Velde

This I believe, while fully aware that it is just that: a belief. My working hypothesis about reality.And that is the assumption that there is a truth, beyond what we can comprehend. The Truth does exist, me thinks. But we are limited by our capabilities. We can only perceive so much.Putting our knowledge together isContinue reading “Meaning making”

The last century we discovered a lot. We learned to exploit the power of machines, industrialization, mass production, chemicals, plastics, computers and the internet.Fiercely competing among ourselves for mastery and profit we maximized our efforts to grow and develop society to an unprecedented level of consumption and waste.Within 1oo years we totally changed the faceContinue reading “Our survival game”

Universal value would be value that enables, supports and maintains life. As a whole and in all it’s constituent parts. And wholeness seems by causality be forced to sacrifice parts in response to the unavoidable turbulence that is part of life itself. That necessity brings us to reconsider the meaning of value within any perceivedContinue reading “Value”

Al jaren weet mijn Antwerpse vriend Thomas Goorden perfect te verwoorden waar het vandaag om dient te gaan en hij heeft het lef om daarbij de koe daadwerkelijk bij te horens te vatten.Vandaag 7 februari vat hij op facebook de huidige stand van zaken in onze verkruimelende samenleving als volgt samen: Nu iedereen toch eenContinue reading “Thomas Goorden heeft lef.”

I engaged in the GCC because I wanted to spend my energy and time to help solve the wicked global challenges. Since then I have been on a journey. Which brought me to the deepest places. Places where according to some wisdom the solutions are hidden: within my self. So I feel I actually amContinue reading “Purpose and identity: Who are we?”

Since september 2017 I have been engaging in the Global Challenges Collaboration. This is motivated by my own quest: how to have better conversations. I thought (and still think) better conversations are a key ingredient for better collaborations. Since then we had many conversations, long and winding explorations. And I learned a lot since then.Continue reading “On our Global Collaboration Challenge”

This image still is my most consise visualisation of how I understand our human existence… I will use this to see where government and taxes fit in.

Still orienting into the new year and where to invest my time, attention and energy. One of the learnings of the last that sticks with me is that all the solutions are already invented. But to agree and collaborate on a large scale turns out to be very hard. The preference to promote individual preferencesContinue reading “Optimal society”

Short first guess, writing this on Sunday 23rd December 2018: The GCC does not exist as a well defined entity. To me the GCC is not a group, tribe, community or any other form defined by boundaries. One of the properties ´it´ does have is that it — until now – is unconditionally open. PartContinue reading “What is the GCC to me?”

Another brief braindump. Thinking from principles one might say that all that we got is time and attention. Providing there is space and energy to use that.Those four simple words seem to define ´All that is´ in this here reality. Ping me if I am missing somenthing. So we might have a concept, a meaningContinue reading “What have we got”