Kevin Dickerson
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🧠 Exploring Adaptive Resilience, AI, and Strategy | 🎙 Host of “Adaptive Resilience” | 🌎 Global thinker
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Foundations: The Surprising Science of Connection
Think solving tiny crossword puzzles is the secret to flourishing? Think again.
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Anti-intellectualism is a symptom of fear—fear of change, fear of being wrong, fear of those who can and do think critically. True resilience isn’t about rejecting knowledge; it’s about adapting, questioning, and evolving.
A society that shames intelligence is a society that fears its own potential.
A society that shames intelligence is a society that fears its own potential.
June 12, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Anti-intellectualism is a symptom of fear—fear of change, fear of being wrong, fear of those who can and do think critically. True resilience isn’t about rejecting knowledge; it’s about adapting, questioning, and evolving.
A society that shames intelligence is a society that fears its own potential.
A society that shames intelligence is a society that fears its own potential.
Cómo Protestar 🪡
Gran parte de lo que vemos está arraigado en la humanidad.
Conductas grupales como los cánticos sincronizan nuestra actividad neuronal, ya sea en el 100 Montgomery o en un partido de los Warriors.
Gran parte de lo que vemos está arraigado en la humanidad.
Conductas grupales como los cánticos sincronizan nuestra actividad neuronal, ya sea en el 100 Montgomery o en un partido de los Warriors.
June 11, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Cómo Protestar 🪡
Gran parte de lo que vemos está arraigado en la humanidad.
Conductas grupales como los cánticos sincronizan nuestra actividad neuronal, ya sea en el 100 Montgomery o en un partido de los Warriors.
Gran parte de lo que vemos está arraigado en la humanidad.
Conductas grupales como los cánticos sincronizan nuestra actividad neuronal, ya sea en el 100 Montgomery o en un partido de los Warriors.
“The supreme art of #war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.” —Sun Tzu
Lesson: Avoid direct conflict when possible. Win through maneuvering, alliances, information, or economic means—violence is a failure of prior strategy.
Where are we seeing these failures today?
Lesson: Avoid direct conflict when possible. Win through maneuvering, alliances, information, or economic means—violence is a failure of prior strategy.
Where are we seeing these failures today?
May 23, 2025 at 3:53 PM
“The supreme art of #war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.” —Sun Tzu
Lesson: Avoid direct conflict when possible. Win through maneuvering, alliances, information, or economic means—violence is a failure of prior strategy.
Where are we seeing these failures today?
Lesson: Avoid direct conflict when possible. Win through maneuvering, alliances, information, or economic means—violence is a failure of prior strategy.
Where are we seeing these failures today?
We often assume that engineering is the realm of logic, and culture is the domain of feeling. One builds systems and the other shapes stories. But the boundary is false and it’s holding us back.
May 14, 2025 at 6:31 PM
We often assume that engineering is the realm of logic, and culture is the domain of feeling. One builds systems and the other shapes stories. But the boundary is false and it’s holding us back.
You know Signal is really good
tired: SignalGate
@wired.com: The Signal clone, TeleMessage—which Mike Waltz appeared to use in a Reuters photo—has been hacked. And Customs and Border Protection also confirmed it used TeleMessage.
Welp.
@wired.com: The Signal clone, TeleMessage—which Mike Waltz appeared to use in a Reuters photo—has been hacked. And Customs and Border Protection also confirmed it used TeleMessage.
Welp.
Customs and Border Protection Confirms Its Use of Hacked Signal Clone TeleMessage
After a hacker reportedly stole data from TeleMessage Signal that included references to CBP, the agency has now confirmed that it used the app but has now “disabled” it as a “precautionary measure.”
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May 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
You know Signal is really good
You’re not burned out, you’re just undergoing a #resilience upgrade. Side effects may include existential clarity and spontaneous #breathwork.
May 8, 2025 at 3:38 PM
You’re not burned out, you’re just undergoing a #resilience upgrade. Side effects may include existential clarity and spontaneous #breathwork.
I help ambitious people and conscious leaders convert challenge into growth through science-backed, human-first #resilience.
May 7, 2025 at 2:31 AM
I help ambitious people and conscious leaders convert challenge into growth through science-backed, human-first #resilience.
Foundations: The Surprising Science of Connection open.substack.com/pub/kevindic...
Foundations: The Surprising Science of Connection
Think solving tiny crossword puzzles is the secret to flourishing? Think again.
open.substack.com
April 30, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Foundations: The Surprising Science of Connection open.substack.com/pub/kevindic...
The Opposite of Burnout Isn’t Rest—It’s Purpose
Rest helps, but it’s not curative. What actually inoculates people against burnout is a sense of meaningful progress. The path to sustainable energy runs through significance, not sleep.
Rest helps, but it’s not curative. What actually inoculates people against burnout is a sense of meaningful progress. The path to sustainable energy runs through significance, not sleep.
April 30, 2025 at 2:37 PM
The Opposite of Burnout Isn’t Rest—It’s Purpose
Rest helps, but it’s not curative. What actually inoculates people against burnout is a sense of meaningful progress. The path to sustainable energy runs through significance, not sleep.
Rest helps, but it’s not curative. What actually inoculates people against burnout is a sense of meaningful progress. The path to sustainable energy runs through significance, not sleep.
🔮 Watch this week’s headlines: Odds are, a major company will be in the news—not for a bold mistake, but for quietly maintaining a broken policy everyone knew about. The real scandal isn’t the failure, but the silence.
#Collusion #StatusQuo #InvisibleHandshake
#Collusion #StatusQuo #InvisibleHandshake
April 23, 2025 at 2:31 AM
🔮 Watch this week’s headlines: Odds are, a major company will be in the news—not for a bold mistake, but for quietly maintaining a broken policy everyone knew about. The real scandal isn’t the failure, but the silence.
#Collusion #StatusQuo #InvisibleHandshake
#Collusion #StatusQuo #InvisibleHandshake
Last week, the news cycle swirled.
The Pope died on Easter Sunday. The world mourned and the Vatican handled procedure with quiet choreography.
Media referred to Pope Francis as a “rare voice of moral clarity”—yet rare is the problem.
If the moral compass is gone, what remains?
Enablers.
The Pope died on Easter Sunday. The world mourned and the Vatican handled procedure with quiet choreography.
Media referred to Pope Francis as a “rare voice of moral clarity”—yet rare is the problem.
If the moral compass is gone, what remains?
Enablers.
April 23, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Last week, the news cycle swirled.
The Pope died on Easter Sunday. The world mourned and the Vatican handled procedure with quiet choreography.
Media referred to Pope Francis as a “rare voice of moral clarity”—yet rare is the problem.
If the moral compass is gone, what remains?
Enablers.
The Pope died on Easter Sunday. The world mourned and the Vatican handled procedure with quiet choreography.
Media referred to Pope Francis as a “rare voice of moral clarity”—yet rare is the problem.
If the moral compass is gone, what remains?
Enablers.
“Clarity Is Freedom Of Perception.”
🕊️ The Pope died.
⚖️ SCOTUS paused migrant expulsions.
🐋 A grey whale washed up on Alameda beach.
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🕊️ The Pope died.
⚖️ SCOTUS paused migrant expulsions.
🐋 A grey whale washed up on Alameda beach.
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Foundations: Clarity Is Freedom of Perception
How To Illuminate In Darkness: Ancient Wisdom, Modern Science, and the Practice of Perceptual Freedom
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April 22, 2025 at 6:03 PM
“Clarity Is Freedom Of Perception.”
🕊️ The Pope died.
⚖️ SCOTUS paused migrant expulsions.
🐋 A grey whale washed up on Alameda beach.
adaptive.kevindickerson.com/p/foundation...
🕊️ The Pope died.
⚖️ SCOTUS paused migrant expulsions.
🐋 A grey whale washed up on Alameda beach.
adaptive.kevindickerson.com/p/foundation...
The people who change us most are often those who are willing to challenge us lovingly, holding up a mirror so we can see ourselves anew.
April 21, 2025 at 8:23 PM
The people who change us most are often those who are willing to challenge us lovingly, holding up a mirror so we can see ourselves anew.
Is the obsession with efficiency making organizations fragile?
April 16, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Is the obsession with efficiency making organizations fragile?
Flow is not a productivity hack. It's a different way of relating to challenge, time, and control.
Wrote about it here → open.substack.com/pub/kevindic...
Read / listen before your next meeting.
Wrote about it here → open.substack.com/pub/kevindic...
Read / listen before your next meeting.
Foundations: Flow Is The Art of Optimal Experience in Uncertainty
Flow isn’t a productivity hack. It’s a fundamental human capacity. And it just might be the most underrated skill for navigating the complexity we‘re all living through.
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April 15, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Flow is not a productivity hack. It's a different way of relating to challenge, time, and control.
Wrote about it here → open.substack.com/pub/kevindic...
Read / listen before your next meeting.
Wrote about it here → open.substack.com/pub/kevindic...
Read / listen before your next meeting.
Identify one task in your day that slightly exceeds your comfort zone.
Set a timebox and commit to immersion, not outcome.
Set a timebox and commit to immersion, not outcome.
April 15, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Identify one task in your day that slightly exceeds your comfort zone.
Set a timebox and commit to immersion, not outcome.
Set a timebox and commit to immersion, not outcome.
Foundations: The Architecture of Strength
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Foundations: The Architecture of Strength
Listen now | How to Build Physical, Mental, Emotional, and Financial Resilience in a Time of Collapse, Constraint, and Change
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April 14, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Foundations: The Architecture of Strength
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Relationships thrive not through effort alone but through synchronized presence.
April 14, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Relationships thrive not through effort alone but through synchronized presence.
Designing a life of flow means organizing your calendar around energy, not obligation.
April 14, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Designing a life of flow means organizing your calendar around energy, not obligation.
The best moments in life occur when body or mind is stretched to its limits in a purposeful effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile. #purpose
April 14, 2025 at 7:14 PM
The best moments in life occur when body or mind is stretched to its limits in a purposeful effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile. #purpose
Five minutes to chop, an hour sharpening knives.
April 14, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Five minutes to chop, an hour sharpening knives.
Do not follow leaders. As with any other person, use their success as a model to change your own behavior, and move beyond their weaknesses. #leadership
April 13, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Do not follow leaders. As with any other person, use their success as a model to change your own behavior, and move beyond their weaknesses. #leadership