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My book on scholarship as a commons

Sep 28, 2025

in Scholarship

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We face increasingly complex challenges yet have made systematic thinking tools exclusive to academic institutions. This creates artificial scarcity when we need broader intellectual engagement. Scholarship should function as intellectual commons—shared infrastructure enabling thoughtful navigation of uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity for everyone, not just credentialed experts. This book explores what that might look like.