Category: Identity
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The 7 E’s of AI Conversation Guide
I have conversations with many people around AI. I find myself having conversations about Efficiency in AI and someone else arguing Existentialism in AI. I created a guide to help me understand the conversations I’m having about AI. Have you experienced this?
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An Unformed Identity and an AI Chatbot
AI Is Not a Mirror A mirror shows you back to yourself. It reflects. It does not respond. AI does something else entirely, and that difference matters more than most parents realize. When a teenager talks to a chatbot or an AI companion, something happens that has never happened before…
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My Dissertation turned into a Book
Introducing Formation: The Self That Performance Cannot Build A few years into my doctoral research, I noticed something that didn’t fit the literature. I was studying how teenagers form their identity online, using James Marcia’s framework of exploration and commitment, and the data kept pointing at a pattern the research…
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I Published a Leadership Book
Lead Smartly is Here I wrote this book from the wrong side of a lot of mistakes. Between 2009 and 2012 I was blogging about leadership — not the polished, keynote-stage version, but the version I was actually living. Bad meetings. Bad calls. A few good ones too, eventually. I…
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The Course I’ve Been Building Toward
I’ve spent over a decade researching how teenagers form their identities. I wrote my doctoral dissertation on it. I’ve taught it in classrooms, presented it at conferences, and carried it into every conversation I’ve had with parents who are trying to figure out what’s happening with their kid. And for…
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It’s Never too Late
I’ve heard people say that at a certain point of one’s development that it’s too late – to change or grow. That limiting thought prevents them from making changes because they think it’s too late to change. I’m too old to learn. I’m too old to do something different and new. I’m too…
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Imago Dei and Identity
The Imago Dei. The Image of God. I have been thinking through these ideas for a little bit now. Just processing the implications of some of these ideas. I have read a few things about it – and I will continue to read more about it – which will ultimately…
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Executive Director at the Firs
I took on a new role last month. I have accepted the role of Executive Director at the Firs – a retreat and conference center in Bellingham, Washington. At the retreat center location there is also a preschool, after school program, day camp, as well as a summer camp on…
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Space or Survival
Sometimes I use this space to work out an idea – sometimes the ideas aren’t quite fully formed, but I’ll write them here and talk with folks about it. Here’s the latest idea – which of course isn’t a new idea – but it’s new to me. I was thinking…
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The “Not Knowing” Spectrum
Here’s an idea that I’m working out. We can sometimes get stuck in our functional dualism that it’s difficult to see things beyond it. It’s either we know something or we don’t know something, but it is a simple dichotomy that just doesn’t work because it doesn’t capture all of…
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Anxiety or Award
As I was looking at my ‘Awards’ on my Apple watch – I remember when all of these little reminders to stand was a point of anxiety for me – not award. I needed to get all the marks for standing every hour. When I would go on a drive…
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Seeing Other…..
…..is not something that can be easily done. We easily assume that seeing another is something that we can all do, but I don’t think you can necessarily see another until you have an established and mature sense of identity and self. I was working on a writing project –…