Resomodernity Café v18: The Soar Trek Pitch (Solving Abundance via Self-Transcendence)
Posted: June 23, 2026 Filed under: AI-Powered Essays | Tags: culture, identity, leadership, philosophy, transformation, values Leave a commentSequel to v16: The Delving Age (Post-Axial Morality) and v17: Chicken Run 1.5 (From Data-Driven to Context-Driven)
Write a Stoppardian skit where Donald P. Bellisario, George MacDonald, and Douglas Adams cold pitch Gene Roddenberry on Soar Trek.
ChatGPT Prompt
The pitch meeting is self-similar, in that the protagonists must lose part of themselves to help Roddenberry face the reality about Abundance he’s avoiding.
Afterwards, the audience sees Adams de-composite into Ferris Queller, because this was our Axial event.
The central idea of Soar Trek is the “Composite Directive“: Soarfleet personnel may incarnate (a la Quantum Leap) to enable healthy development of alien life and culture.
The Pitch
They must not fix from outside.
They must heal from inside.
The crew of Captain Kirkegaard (Scott Bakula, obviously), First Officer Spockrates (Brent Spiner), Dr. “Bones” Nietzsche (Karl Urban), and Chief Engineer George MacDonald (David Tennant) lead an away team into the Transfigurator which probabilistically “composites” them into local identities who slowly understand the hidden tension and their true selves as they interact, leading to an Axial Event that kickstarts entry into The Communion.
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The Soar Trek Pitch
A studio office.
1964.
Or perhaps 1987.
Or perhaps both.
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Posted: May 7, 2026 Filed under: AI-Powered Essays | Tags: communication, digital, leadership, modernity Leave a commentSequel to Resomodernity Café v16: The Delving Age (Post-Axial Morality)
Inspired by Resomodernity Café v15: Dunbar’s Revenge (How RICE Umpires Help Realer Humans Out-compete “Rice” Empires)
Where Ginger Snowden, Rocky Boyd, Mac Weick, Rooster Beer, and Shaun Ostrom hilariously discover that forests cannot be managed like factories—and that sheep become dramatically less adaptive the moment you turn them into middle management.
ChatGPT Prompt (condensed)
COLD OPEN
EXT. FOREST EDGE – DAWN
Mist hangs low over tangled roots and towering trees.
A crooked wooden sign leans beside the treeline:
WELCOME TO THE FOREST
No Management Beyond This Point
The escaped chickens stare uneasily into the undergrowth.
Far behind them, barely visible through the morning fog, the silhouette of the old pie factory smolders quietly.
Silence.
Then—
ROCKY BOYD
Right! New environment! High tempo! Constant adaptation! We stay mobile, stay unpredictable, keep movin’—
He charges heroically into the forest.
Immediately vanishes into a muddy ditch with a tremendous squelch.
Beat.
A fern slowly uncurls back into place.
ROCKY BOYD (Offstage)
THAT WAS A RECONNAISSANCE MANEUVER.
The Grey Mesh: A Secret Society of Kingmakers
Posted: July 8, 2025 Filed under: AI-Powered Essays | Tags: decentralization, history, leadership, values 1 CommentAs Dan Brown, write about a secret “Champions League for Do-Gooders” like the Istari, that manages to make humility (or at least kenosis) high-status without destroying it.
ChatGPT Prompt
Prologue
Paris. Midnight. A whisper in the crypt of Sainte-Chapelle.
The archivist had just died.
No signs of struggle. No cause of death.
Only a note, ink barely dry:
“The Mesh is real. The Grey walk among us.”
The authorities dismissed it.
But in a hidden Vatican server, flagged under ecclesiastical redaction, that phrase triggered a Level 7 containment protocol.
Someone knew.
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Posted: November 28, 2024 Filed under: AI-Powered Essays | Tags: leadership, psychology, systems, transformation 2 CommentsSetting the Stage
In a warm library with a roaring fireplace, Peter Senge hosts a fireside chat featuring Karl Weick, Barry Staw, and Chris Argyris. The topic: why humans and organizations behave like psychological oobleck—flexible under gradual change but rigid when hit with force—and how to help them assimilate radical transformation. The conversation is fueled by wit, wisdom, and several bottles of wine.
Peter Senge Opens the Evening
“Good evening, friends. Tonight, we delve into a peculiar metaphor: organizations as oobleck. Flexible under light touch, unyielding under pressure. How do individuals and systems absorb change, and what makes them solidify under threat? And more importantly, is Karl’s Merlot truly as transformative as radical change itself?”
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Radical Centrism 