My name is Terry O’Keefe. I live in a small town just north of Asheville, NC and I make my living as a writer and part-time technology consultant. .
This blog contains mostly articles that I write for the Sunday Ideas section of the Asheville Citizen-Times, my local daily newspaper.
My writing is aimed at the the broad areas of business, technology, and a special focus on how we understand and therefore manage the onrush of change. The hope is that we might “co-create” this change with as much grace and as little damage as possible.
Why I Write
I believe, with many others, that we are evolving rapidly towards a new kind of culture – what some are calling the Post-Industrial Society. I believe too that this change is being driven by the evolution of human consciousness. It seems to me that if we can understand how we are changing, we might also better understand and shape the deep change that is emerging all around us. My goal in this blog is to add to our understanding about what is up for us now.
What I Write About
The articles that I write are mostly about ordinary events in business and economics and technology and the contours of our society.
There are a couple of reasons for this. First, I think we can sift through these events for clues as to where change is showing up and where it seems to be taking us. And second, as we come to know more about where we are headed, our task will be to re-think and re-imagine how we do these ordinary things, because even after the transition they will remain as the ordinary stuff of our lives.
That is, work will still be work, business will still be business, governance will still be governance, though undoubtedly in very different forms.
An Invitation
So please check out my articles. If they delight or intrigue you in any way, I hope you will continue to come back and visit. If you like, you can sign up in the sidebar over there on the right to get email notifications about new postings. I invite you to join the conversation by commenting on the posts or suggesting new topics.
If you find ideas here that you are particularly drawn to, please share them with friends and colleagues. Every writer dreams of finding a larger audience, and so do I. Beyond that, change in our time is a conscious and collective endeavor, and this blog aspires to add something of value to that collective conversation.
In the meantime, Peace and Blessings.
Terry
