The Great Reset

Coming to Terms with the Great Rupture

Let’s be honest with ourselves. We humans have never quite made peace with the world we were born into.

Since day one, we’ve been in conflict — not just with each other, but with the planet itself. We’ve been at war with trees, war with rivers, war with weather. We call it progress. But from a broader lens, it starts to look like something else: a species trying to outcompete its own habitat.

And yet, if you zoom out — step back from the headlines, the markets, the latest app drop — you’ll see that everything else in nature plays by a different set of rules.

Trees? They rise and stretch for sunlight, sure — but they don’t do it in isolation. Their roots link up in vast, underground trading networks, swapping sugars from photosynthesis for minerals drawn up by fungi and microbes. It’s a literal living economy — only it runs on reciprocity, not extraction. It’s not survival of the fittest; it’s survival of the most connected.

Everything in nature operates through interdependence. Everything, except us.

We’ve opted out. Built walls. Disconnected. Disentangled. Our entire economic operating system is designed to take more than it gives. To measure success by accumulation rather than contribution. And that disconnection — the…