IS: My fan letter to Emerge
Upcoming public events:
- Friday March 14: IS Connection Call
- Friday March 14: Intentional Ventures Build-a-thon - Week 2 Collaborative Chemistry Limicon
- Saturday March 15: Post-Emerge w/ Daniel Thorson Limicon
Community Hub calls for Season 17 members continue every Sunday through March 23. Last Sunday's session was called "Embodied Awakening".
Last week I wrote about What's going on around IS.
I was going to write a different newsletter tonight but then, in the Limicon Hylo (social media) group I found myself gushing out this description of what the Emerge podcast has meant to me, so yeah now you get to hear my fan letter. If Daniel's work with Emerge meant something to you too... come join us on Saturday.
In my mind, Daniel basically fathered the Liminal Web.
More than any other single source (though Both/And and The Stoa were also quite significant to me), the Emerge podcast assisted and guided my journey out into uncharted territory, weaving a web of domains and connections that we now call Liminal (among other names). Looking back through the episode list, so many of those guest names have become trusted sources and even friends in this space we all share.
Daniel's "Emerge" journey has come to a close recently, and it feels like a signifier to me, of a transition from one era to the next. In his final episode, Daniel says "we've crossed some kind of threshold... we are no longer gathering the network... now is the time to come into deeper intimacy and to act".
I feel this threshold in my own developmental path, and see it in the network gathered together at Limicon 2025! I am delighted to be hosting Daniel on Saturday, and to invite you to join in as we express gratitude for his meaningful service and get to hear from Daniel what he is sensing and doing on the other side of this threshold.
We'll start with appreciation: You will have the opportunity to personally express to Daniel what Emerge has meant to you, as we together bear collective witness to the impact of that labor of love. Then we'll ask Daniel "what has emerged?" for him personally after a decade of Emerge-ing, and what he is seeing and sensing across the Web - challenges and opportunities, where we've come so far and what we may face ahead of us.
9am Pacific, Noon Eastern on Saturday - I think it'll be a special time.
Cheers,
James