Greetings!
It's a pleasure and an honor to have you here!
You (like everyone else) are the best in the world within a range of areas.
You have a specific combination of relationships, experiences, skills, and insights (all amidst ongoing individualized development) that is unique to the perspectives of everyone else.
Within your area of uniqueness, you innately lead the world, with approximately 8 billion followers.
You lead both through your direct influence on the part of the world that is immediately in front of you, and through your ripple effects limitlessly outward.
There's no moment of your life when you (or anyone else) are not serving as a world leader.
We are naturally interdependent, which sustains our character and keeps us kind, caring, and loving as we grow together. Yet if we want to maximize our individual bandwidth of world leadership (not to be important, or to gain at the expense of anyone else), we can do so by minimizing our ego.
That's why I didn't want to open by talking about myself. Yet to offer an introduction, my name is Steve Thomas, I'm 48 years old, and I live on the non-reservation land of the Tachi Yokuts near what is known as Fresno, California. The ongoing service of the Tachi Yokuts in striving to hold the light and steward the land is immensely appreciated.
My background is in civil engineering, with a focus on structures. I’ve been involved in the designs of unique glass enclosures, as well as resources related to tensegrity- represented by the model in this picture. Prior to launching this website in September 2021, I served for 9 years as a regional technical advisor with one of the world’s largest glass manufacturers, supporting their sales organization and industry contacts across the Western US and Canada.
That last role was a dream job, working with people I love, and helping them to navigate ambiguity by delivering (hopefully) simple, articulate solutions to seemingly-complicated problems.
Yet as you are of course aware, the world has a lot of problems- seemingly large, complicated problems that cause tremendous suffering, and remain chronically unresolved as generations pass.
So the question arises: Could these seemingly large, complicated problems also be solved with comparatively simple solutions?
As a simple visual metaphor, let's consider a tensegrity structure.
When I first saw one, I concluded that the technology was far too complex for me to ever understand.
Yet reconsidering the situation later, I realized that a tensegrity structure is just a set of compression members each with at least 3 stabilizing tension members connected to either end.
As long as that single, simple requirement is satisfied, everything else falls into place.
There's a strong body of evidence that the world's most seemingly-difficult problems are highly analogous. A sufficiently extraordinary body of evidence that I quit my dream job to be of maximum service in helping propel these solutions toward their inevitable implementation.
The world's problems seem complicated and difficult to solve, and they are within a context (like trying to hammer a nail with a saw). But if we approach them differently (as by selecting a hammer instead of a saw), true solutions become imminently attainable.
