Description

Listen in as Kristine and Edward discuss:

• Collaborating in society’s “moments of exception” – when it matters most
• When to use the word “truth” – and when to avoid it
• How playfulness plants seeds of understanding 
• Why you have to be serious about play
• How play and vulnerability are invitations to connect
• A 10-year vision for a better world

Key Takeaways:

• Be goofy. A warm smile and an attempt to communicate, even when you don’t speak the language, creates connection and possibility
• Watching toxic content online to stay informed and fight misinformation is hard on your spirit, but it must be done. Ed talks about tools for building resiliency and stamina.
• Envision a future where communities are controlling the data being used to train AI in their communities to filter out the hyperbole from what is real. A future where communities are at the center of data being generated about them and then create value from that data.
• The broken information ecosystem is like a Superfund site. Until we create another system, we need to “clean the trash off the streets” of the internet. 
• Human nature is fundamentally creative and fundamentally defaults to kindness. People are beautiful and interesting and friendly - meet as many as you can. 

"The process of creativity is fundamentally about holding up two different things in the world and seeing what sparks between them. That, to me, is like the essence of play. And it's in all of my life's work - that the notion of taking seriously the necessity of play, of the expression of creativity is what we humans are here to do." — Edward Bice

About Edward Bice: Ed Bice is the CEO of Meedan and a 2024 Skoll Awardee. He loves dogs, mountains, people, and designing social software that improves communities' ability to find signal in the noise in our failing digital information ecosystem. 

Connect with Edward Bice: 

2024 Skoll Awardee Announcement: https://skoll.org/2024/04/02/skoll-foundation-announces-the-winners-of-2024-skoll-award-for-social-innovation/

Website: https://meedan.com/ 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/heymeedan 

Twitter: https://x.com/meedan

Connect with Kristine:

Website: https://www.impactfullinc.com/ 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/impactfull_inc

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristine-breese-michie/ 

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