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The Daily Perplexity from The Wrap . #bad What are the most pressing global crises today that require immediate attention? --- Based on the information provided in the search results, here are some of the most pressing global crises in 2024 that require immediate attention: 1. Conflict and displacement in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) - The DRC enters 2024 with 25.4 million people in need of humanitarian assistance, more than any other country. - Intense fighting in eastern DRC has exacerbated a protracted crisis, exposing millions to conflict, political tensions, economic pressures, climate shocks and disease outbreaks. 2. Humanitarian crisis in Sudan - The ongoing war between the Sudanese Armed Forces and Rapid Support Forces has pushed Sudan to the brink of collapse. - Less than a year of fighting has more than doubled the number of people needing humanitarian support. In Darfur, there are reports of mass killings and forced displacement. 3. Ongoing conflicts and humanitarian needs in Myanmar - One-third of Myanmar's population (16.7 million people) will need support in 2024, the highest number since the beginning of the crisis. 45% of them are children. - Humanitarian needs continue to grow due to the combined effects of conflict, economic crisis, and soaring inflation. 4. Protracted crisis in Syria - More than a decade of conflict has displaced millions of Syrians internally and abroad as refugees. Violence is ongoing. - Children face huge risks to their physical and mental health. Escalations in violence since October 2023 have caused more deaths, injuries and displacement. 5. Humanitarian emergency in Afghanistan - Afghanistan faces a complex and multi-layered humanitarian crisis. Families are struggling in the aftermath of the 2022 earthquake amid ongoing instability and economic collapse. - 28.3 million people, including 14 million children, will need humanitarian assistance in 2024. These are the reasons that we created the Grey Swan Guild. Please think. #sensemaking

Once in a while we like to share the big picture are the Grey Swan Guild, so here it is 👇. Grey Swan Guild (www.greyswanguild.org) is a global, not-for-profit organization that we created together in March 2020. We have a distinctive mission of making sense of the world. We do this for the equal benefit of members (current/prospective members, partners) and external audiences (users, readers, the world). The Guild is a member-driven collective (the Post-Modern Guild), that attracts primarily executive professionals across a wide range of geographies, disciplines, sectors and verticals. Members engage in a wide variety of network activities and events, participate in a number of craft-building forums, and produce content, intelligence and new foreign publications. The Grey Swan Guild assesses, bridges, changes, debunks, explores, navigates, speculates, synthesizes, transforms and understands an increasingly complex, uncertain and sped-up world around us, via all these efforts. We write, we draw, we design, we program, we create. We plan, do, check and act like great practitioners do. Heading into our fifth year of operation, the Guild is maturing. We have aspirations to chase down essential internal developments, address gaps in building a global-best network and movement, focus on monetization efforts, and deliver the caliber of intelligence, knowledge forums and practices that energizes our global reputation as one of the great organizations for making better sense of the world. We will build new structures for dues payments to participate in events and other community activities. we will create publications research and data that would be used for our members to subscribe to or to purchase on behalf of their customers and home organization. we've already built a patreon account for the swans you want to support the guild by paying dues. The subscription will give you access to special materials and events as they proceed and they will help the Guild continue as an entity. We have a special offer for the first thousand members of The Guild that we're trying to get to you can help by clicking here and joining the Guild and supporting us. https://lnkd.in/gNEk7VWw We will also create a store to sell some of these objects along with things like coffee cups and t-shirts and hats to continue the binding of the community in the Guild as we share ideas together. Please share this in your network we're always looking for new swans and we're also wanting to connect you with you this way. cc Doyle Buehler Chuck Metz, Jr. Sean Moffitt Denise Tsang Stephanie Kusibab Antonia Nicols

We’ve just updated our Page. Visit our Page to see the latest updates. Five options for anybody new to the Guild that tries to make better sense of the world through smarter intelligence, deeper experiences, elevating community, bolder ventures: Come to our monthly New Member Regatta July 16th and meet our founder and community leader in an interactive wayfinding session: https://lnkd.in/gd9d9ejv Become an official member: https://lnkd.in/g6sbFVx6 Join as a Global Sensemaker: https://lnkd.in/g5WnZr6 Build solutions as a Cygnus Venturist: https://bit.ly/gsgventures Learn about the 15+ events we are hosting this month themed around Culture: https://lnkd.in/gUP2D6q4 #greyswanguild #globalleagueofsensemakers #cygnusventures #regatta #events #afifthplace #makingsnseoftheworld #movement #guild #experiences #community #intelligence #ventures #july #culturemonth

We are thinking about the idea of Sensemaking and how to do it. Not defining it but making sense of it... It is not a simple task at all when you think of this ... Sensemaking is the act observing in human ways. Observing takes consciousness and cognition... According to this study there are some 120 different theories of consciousness... and these scientists are working my way through them into sorting things out in that taxonomy. These are some of the reasons and some of the problems that the Guild undertakes because they're the right problems. They are just the type of reasons and challenges we take on to make the world a better place. cc Dr Tina Karme Sean Moffitt Chuck Metz, Jr. https://lnkd.in/daA9DyUh

Words Matter #thewrap #tapestry Hapax: a hapax is a very rare word that appears uniquely in a particular context, posing challenges for interpretation and translation. Their existence is an expected statistical analysis Some famous examples of hapaxes include "honorificabilitudinitatibus" in Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost; and "flother" (a synonym for snowflake) in a 1275 English manuscript. Words matter a lot. on the team of the rap which is the group of writers and new sense makers that work in the guild together to produce publications like The Wrap and Matters, track neologisms that are early signals that the shape of the marketplace or the shape of thinking is changing. in marketing, or self-promotion there are people that know that if they've got a unique word that they can grab and connect it to themselves or thoughts they can give them famous or at least really easily searchable on the internet. Shakespeare and his cowriters were so adept at creating new words and using unique words in order to drive home perplexity and creativity while also staking out territory and ownership of being unique ... Think in terms of, Tomfoolery, Skullduggery, Kleenex, Hogwartian, Cynefin and Esturian.. these are particularly thoughtful because they're so obscure.. but they're well designed so that when you search each of these words or use them someone will descend on you to correct you if you're not quite precisely right about them because they think they own these words... as a matter of fact they don't these are just common words they just happen to be used in a trigram to form uniqueness they make it easy to search for or easy to organize on something like an internet or inside an llm.

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GSG co-founder Rob Tyrie the building different educational and Industry advice about artificial intelligence and how it's impacting business and other large organizations. "Folks, we’re living in wild times. Generative Artificial intelligence has burst out of the lab and into our pockets, our homes, and our workplaces. It’s like we’ve strapped ourselves to a brand new phenomenal rocket roller coaster, and the countdown has already started, we’re always at the crest of the first big drop. But here’s the million-dollar question: Are we ready for liftoff?”... The essay includes some tips and recommendations on some education to start with that is free. follow the link below to read the rest of the the essay 👇 and yeah tl;dr do some education about artificial intelligence that's applicable to your craft or practice and experiment and get messy out there. Read “The AI Rollercoaster: Buckle Up for the Ride of Our Lives — July 17, 2024“ by Rob Tyrie on Medium: https://lnkd.in/gdKMDj9R

The Daily Perplexity #TheWrap We love our heart science fiction here. here's some new entrance for 2024. Here are some of the best hard signs fiction books of 2024 that are getting accolades and great reviews. Based on the search results from New Scientist and Esquire, here are some of the most acclaimed hard science fiction books published in 2024 so far: 1. The Clockwork Equation by Amal El-Mohtar - This mind-bending debut novel explores the implications of being able to manipulate time through physics equations. It's been praised for its poetic prose and profound philosophical questions.[1][2] ⚖️⚛️ 2. A Fractal Sky by Hannu Rajaniemi - The sequel to Rajaniemi's Summerland, this novel continues to explore the far future where the afterlife has been digitized. Reviewers have called it "dazzling" and "wildly imaginative" hard sci-fi.[1][3] ❄️☁️ 3. The Thousand Earths by Adrian Tchaikovsky - A sweeping space opera about humanity's expansion across parallel Earths, with each timeline featuring different evolutionary paths. It's a complex and deeply researched book that's being hailed as a modern classic.[2][3] 🚀👨🚀 4. The Clockwork War by Martha Wells - Set in the same universe as the Murderbot Diaries but centuries earlier, this novel follows the outbreak of war between neighboring planets as their competing time travel technology tears apart the fabric of spacetime. Another tour-de-force from a modern sci-fi master.[1][2] 🤖🔫 5. Beneath a Brass Sky by Eli Lee Brown - This debut imagines an alternate history where Charles Babbage's analytical engine was fully realized in the 1800s, jumpstarting the information age. It's a richly detailed and philosophically intriguing blend of steampunk and hard sci-fi.[3] 🧮🏭 Other notable 2024 hard sci-fi releases include Antimatter Blues by Edward Ashton, Embers of War by Gareth L. Powell, and Quantum Radio by Derek Künsken. All of these books have earned rave reviews for their scientific rigor, innovative premises, and thought-provoking themes. It's shaping up to be a stellar year for fans of the genre. Citations: [1] The best new science fiction books of February 2024 https://lnkd.in/d4wAn-gY [2] The Best Sci-Fi Books of 2024 (So Far) https://lnkd.in/dYuw87ym [3] The best new science fiction books of May 2024 https://lnkd.in/d9k_CJhY Books! Aurimas Griciūnas Ralph Mercer, PhD Howard Fields Sylvia Gallusser Ben Thurman Moy Daniel Dan Zinkin Dr Wendy Elford Olga Howard