Complexity and the Sixth Great Transition, #2

Yet that’s exactly what many leaders are trying to do—optimize their way through systemic collapse using 20th-century tools and yesterday’s assumptions. What we’re facing isn’t just disruption. It’s a full-blown operating system upgrade for civilization. And it requires a whole new kind of leadership.

If you’re feeling overwhelmed, disoriented, and vaguely betrayed by the promises of progress, congratulations—you’re alive during a Great Transition. Not a blip. Not a market correction. A full-system transformation of how humans live, work, relate, think, and survive.

The last time this happened, it gave us steam engines, global supply chains, electric lights, and middle-class dreams. This time, the outcome is still undecided.

For thousands of years, humanity has lived in the shadow of a wall. It was the wall of complexity—the place ...