Great article and I am looking forward to more in the series! Seems like you are diving straight at the heart of one of the most important questions of our time.
You just sent me into my first rabbit hole of this Sunday, after I just reflected on the word ‘praxis’ last night (while reading Anne-Laure Le Cunff’s book Tiny Experiments), and now I needed to understand how this relates to phronesis.
So now my first go-to understanding is that I can think of them as a loop: phronesis guides praxis, but praxis refines phronesis. Like a cycle where wisdom shapes action, and action deepens wisdom.
Will definitely follow you further along. What an important (and applicable) topic!
Great piece Cissy. I'll be eager to follow along--and hope you can really soak of precious moments with your grandma.
I use AI only a little bit, mostly to bounce ideas off, ask what I might be missing. As someone who writes about the human experience, living and working and spending time and money intentionally, it's so important to me to be careful how I use AI.
But I definitely want/need to stay abreast of its developments, and do my own research and writing about it. Especially as workplaces adopt it like it's the last Taylor Swift concert ticket and have every team using it as much as possible :-) I want to know the impact that has on employee satisfaction...does it actually free them up to be more creative on their own stuff and therefore have a job be a more tenable option for an entrepreneurial spirit?
in many ways, I think AI is exactly what we need to help us live and work more intentionally. in my last role, I worked with an Executive Assistant who truly supercharged the way I work, but it took quite a bit of intentionality on my part to ensure that I was being deliberate about what I was delegating and how I was spending my time
I think the same is true for AI! ensuring that we're intentional about how we spend our time and lives is actually precisely the way to uplevel ourselves with AI and not lose touch with our humanity :)
That’s a great comparison. Given any kind of assistant, human OR AI, good inputs is essential to getting good outputs. But forming those inputs and being able to articulate them to an assistant is often the clarifying, human work we avoid doing. Thanks for the thoughts!
Great article and I am looking forward to more in the series! Seems like you are diving straight at the heart of one of the most important questions of our time.
thanks, Christopher :) I'm excited to dive into this project and lean on ancient wisdom to guide us toward becoming more ourselves in this new reality
You just sent me into my first rabbit hole of this Sunday, after I just reflected on the word ‘praxis’ last night (while reading Anne-Laure Le Cunff’s book Tiny Experiments), and now I needed to understand how this relates to phronesis.
So now my first go-to understanding is that I can think of them as a loop: phronesis guides praxis, but praxis refines phronesis. Like a cycle where wisdom shapes action, and action deepens wisdom.
Will definitely follow you further along. What an important (and applicable) topic!
so good, Brigitte! love the integration of how you're thinking about phronesis <> praxis
I think of our wisdom as being guided by our intuition – so how do we run the cycle of follow intuition > take action > cultivate wisdom?
Great piece Cissy. I'll be eager to follow along--and hope you can really soak of precious moments with your grandma.
I use AI only a little bit, mostly to bounce ideas off, ask what I might be missing. As someone who writes about the human experience, living and working and spending time and money intentionally, it's so important to me to be careful how I use AI.
But I definitely want/need to stay abreast of its developments, and do my own research and writing about it. Especially as workplaces adopt it like it's the last Taylor Swift concert ticket and have every team using it as much as possible :-) I want to know the impact that has on employee satisfaction...does it actually free them up to be more creative on their own stuff and therefore have a job be a more tenable option for an entrepreneurial spirit?
in many ways, I think AI is exactly what we need to help us live and work more intentionally. in my last role, I worked with an Executive Assistant who truly supercharged the way I work, but it took quite a bit of intentionality on my part to ensure that I was being deliberate about what I was delegating and how I was spending my time
I think the same is true for AI! ensuring that we're intentional about how we spend our time and lives is actually precisely the way to uplevel ourselves with AI and not lose touch with our humanity :)
That’s a great comparison. Given any kind of assistant, human OR AI, good inputs is essential to getting good outputs. But forming those inputs and being able to articulate them to an assistant is often the clarifying, human work we avoid doing. Thanks for the thoughts!