The Context Feed
Strategy is shaped by what we pay attention to.
This is what's alive in Joel's mind right now — what he's reading, making, listening to, asking.
It sets the tone for everything See Context does.
Updated as the mood strikes.
-
Media Releases
WHO IS RAISING YOUR CHILD?
Is your child emotionally attached to AI?
-
Currently Reading
Think Before You Think: Social Complexity and Knowledge of Knowing
Stafford Beer & David Whittaker
A significant selection of papers & talks relating to cybernetics & systems theory from Stafford Beer (one of the great holistic thinkers of recent times).
Theory
Education
Power
-
Turning Over
The Honest Case for the Humanities
N. Ángel Pinillos Ph.D.
Literature
Philosophy
Humanities
The Palimpsest and the Sword, On the Topology of Civilization and the Heroic Error of the Sword
Léon de Sailly
Architecture
Metaphysics
Robert Mariani
Discord
Culture
Molly Kinder
AI
Futures
Why AI is Incorrigibly Didactic
Adam Kirsch
AI
Writing
Literature
-
On Rotation
Adam Kahane
Business
Self-improvement
Bill Sharpe
Podcasts
Theory
-
Writing
I’m finding myself constantly editing and shaping these days.
-
On the Calendar
Context Salon · Summer Edition
Hosted by See Context · Format: intimate, unrecorded
We bring up to 30 people into a room to discuss topics of philosophy, history, behavioral science, design, and lived experience. Not to agree. To think better.
Event
Salon
-
Next Salon
The Three Horizons is a simple but powerful tool for navigating complexity and change.
Friday, June 19, 2026 @ 8 a.m. EDT.
Please join us for free via Zoom.
Event
Salon
-
Making
A Framework for Communal Intelligence
See Context · Internal architecture
Not a methodology. Not a process. A way of seeing that other people can borrow long enough to see differently too.
Frameworks
In the Lab
-
Working Notes
“Context is not background. Context is the argument that leads to the collaborative solution.”
– Joel Van Kuiken, 2024
-
Current Obsessions
What’s pulling at him right now. The connective tissue between disparate things — what links them is usually the real subject.
Narrative infrastructure
Trust as technology
Sense-making
Institutional silence
Collective memory
Craft economics
The editorial instinct
What salons make possible
The feed updates when Joel’s thinking does.