life intelligence

just like businesses need to make analyses, situational assessments and use/develop other tools for better sensemaking and decision-making to remain relevant in their field and achieve their strategic goals, so do we need as individuals if we want to be relevant in our field of play, find resonant opportunities and have an impact on others.

in many ways, personal life is different from business. we don't want to narrow-boundary optimize everything. however, analyzing where these corporate/organizational tools - that have been found to be consistently useful in this wider competitive social context - can be useful for us and leveraging them for their best possible use, is in my opinion a responsibility of any spiritually/ethically-inclined person trying to be of service to life and have an influence in the metacrisis.

a few main business intelligence references that can be very translatable/applicable to personal life: wardley mapping⁹⁰, sensemaker/dave snowden, bismarck analysis, metadesign's cognitive/mapping tools.

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i.e. how do we create systems/tools that support us, as individuals and (loosely-associated) collectives, to make better, strategic decisions towards more beautiful, desirable futures*?

*for a discussion on desirable futures, see: wide-boundary metrics.

what are most popular existing life intelligence support systems/tools?

a few common approaches:

by creating:
knowledge commons (publications, think tanks, research institutes, media companies, etc)
technological commons (building tools to support personal/collective sensing, sensemaking, decision-making, action, learning)
e.g.: most free open-source software, many web3/blockchain projects, collective intelligence projects like - a few of my favorites: sublime, golden, goodly labs, roote (with trails.social (ex-tweetscape)), pol.is, etc.
group intelligence (fellowships, courses, events, communities, facilitated sessions, etc)