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☀ Today is the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere... ...a reminder that we live on an orbiting planet dancing in a vast cosmos. For me, the Summer Solstice invokes how small and miraculous we are in the context of spacetime. In bringing to life an emergent new project called The People's Dreaming Collective, I often reflect on what it takes to build our societal capacity for imagination. How do we strengthen our dreaming muscles to envision audacious new futures for how we govern? In unlocking my own ability to dream, one important step has been recalibrating my relationship with time. Time has always been tethered to scarcity for me. I’ve grown up in a culture obsessed with quarterly returns and the instant gratification of smartphones. Time feels squeezed, like there is too much to fit in. Time feels precious, like it moves too fast. Recently, we gathered radical public servants from across continents. A shared frustration that surfaced was tight timeframes and how they limit our current government institutions. Political pressures and short electoral cycles require us to move fast and demonstrate immediate results, even for complex challenges that have been centuries in the making. What if we zoom out in time? Read the full post via our Substack newsletter: https://lnkd.in/gxtv73aJ #futurism #collectiveimagination #democracy