I returned to Medium.com to publish a personal essay that I wrote after hearing Jake Shimabukuro perform at Blue Note Hawaii.

Medium.com is an online publication that allows people to create their own content. I have published a few pieces there, including an extended response to an article by Jordan Greenhall. I was intrigued by the differences he perceived between real thinking and what he calls simulated thinking. The article's conclusion particularly impressed me with its call to action:

[A]s you become more capable of real thinking, you also become more capable of real collaboration. Of real community and of real relationships. And, thence, of real thinking. It is a virtuous cycle.

So, while the going has been slow, it is no surprise that those people who have begun crossing the adaptive valley to thinking are beginning to find each-other. And when they do, they are bridging across the identities and pre-fab responses of our old scripts and routines. It has been slow going, but it is picking up steam and accelerating.

The train is leaving the station. Time to start thinking.