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AI as fruit of humanity

AI as fruit of humanity

Vanessa Machado de Oliveira and Peter Senge propose a deceptively simple thesis in their recent work on meta-relationality and AI: everything is nature. Our cities, our algorithms, our data centres, none of this stands outside the living field of which we are part.

Exploring a new Philosophy for Business: My Decade of Discovery

Brussels or Rotterdam? That was the choice presented to me by the P&G recruiter 11 years ago. The choice wasn’t difficult. I remember taking the call in sunny São Paolo, where I was enjoying my exchange semester, which had given me a taste of living abroad. I

The Ecology of Business: Entrepreneurship as a force of regeneration

"Can business be truly a force for good?" This question has been at the core of my exploration of the regenerative paradigm in recent years. Reflecting the mood of our times, my LinkedIn feed is often filled with dire warnings and urgent pleas for change such as "

Regeneration: Unlocking the True Potential of Business

Businesses are no longer solely focused on profit and growth. In today's society, consumers are becoming increasingly aware of the negative impacts businesses can have on society and the environment, creating a demand for companies to not only minimize harm but also contribute to positive change. So although

Embracing Regenerative Business: Bridging Theory and Practice

Re-evaluating the capitalist model, once considered a fringe or "hippie" viewpoint, has now entered mainstream discourse. Influential business leaders, like Paul Polman, are now openly advocating for companies to become net positive, contributing more to the world than they extract. Businesses are reconsidering their methods and exploring

The Whole and its Parts: A Phenomenological Approach to Living Systems

We are clearly experiencing a time of transformative change. The ecological, political and societal changes that we are experiencing, aren’t minor deviations from business as usual, they exhibit deep systemic shifts. Inevitably, as our worldview starts to show cracks, new stories begin to emerge. In recent decades, concepts like

Connecting to the source, coming to full expression

Connecting to the source, coming to full expression

How can we revitalise our connection with all of life on the planet, human and non-human? It's a question I have been carrying with me for while. Unexpectedly, a recent visit to the Guggenheim in New York gave me inspiration for something of an answer. It isn&

An antifragile approach to life

An antifragile approach to life

When I began my studies in 2008, the world was hit by a global financial crisis unlike anything we had seen since the Great Depression. As a business undergrad and passionate stock investor at the time, this event left a profound impression on me. It revealed that the systems we

Living Wisdom

Ever since I came back from my trip in Morocco, I felt like putting the regenerative theory into practice. To get my hands dirty. That’s why I traveled to Andalusia a few months back, for a two-week Permaculture Design Course. It was the teacher, Ras John, that made

Regenerating our urban environment

Regenerating our urban environment

Over the past years the topic of regeneration has gained increasing interest across the wider public. As we are becoming more aware of the limits of our industrial growth society, we are looking for ways to harmonize our relationship with the planet. That is what regeneration is, putting life at

Facing my fears

Facing my fears

In 2020, I decided to take time off to discover new perspectives. I wanted to learn how I could live my life more truthfully and quit my job in Denmark. This decision was a leap of faith and I was aware that the period ahead would be difficult. This proved

Making the Desert Bloom

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Making the Desert Bloom

During a trip in Morocco, a question came to me that radically changed my perspective on life. I started to ask myself how life could be brought to the desert. This question, which started as an innocent daydream on a drive through an arid mountain chain, evolved in a larger

The language of inspiration

The language of inspiration

One of the things I quickly discovered when I started describing The Enlivenment [https://www.timodenkirchen.com/making-the-desert-bloom/], is that it is difficult to explain the philosophy conceptually. While its holistic ideas are familiar to indigenous and Eastern cultures, Western culture (and its language) doesn’t really

Freedom, Abundance and Opportunity

Freedom, Abundance and Opportunity

In 2016 I quit my job at Procter & Gamble and booked a one-way ticket to Mumbai. My intention was to travel through Asia and see what opportunities would arise. I did this under the project name "Traveling Business Man" and wrote a few blogs about my