The book
Chi – Collaborative Hybrid Intelligence
How intelligence flows between people, organisations and machines, and how to build systems that keep it healthy.
Why this book
The old maps no longer fit.
We are moving into a world where humans and AI think together, inside teams and organisations that were designed for a different age. Chi describes that transition as it is already happening and offers a way to navigate it: a vocabulary for the layers intelligence moves through, a measure for its health, and an architecture for organisations and technology that keep it flowing.
Written for
- Founders and leaders
- Builders and scientists
- Investors
- Curious readers who sense that the old maps no longer fit
"It is written for the fellow venturers and wayfarers who dare to think and do what no-one else deems possible." (Dr Fabian Feutlinske, from "A Personal Note" in the book.)
Key ideas
Three ideas at the heart of Chi
Intelligence is relational.
It lives in the connections between people, teams and machines.
The Intelligence Stack.
Four layers, from the person to the group, the organisation and society, each depending on the others.
The flow of Chi.
Six conditions strengthen it: freedom, participation, trust, reciprocity, coordination and ecological alignment. Four weaken it: concentration, fragmentation, inequality and opacity.
Concept posts
Ideas from Chi
Short essays on the core ideas of the book, written for the road.
Intelligence Is Relational
Intelligence does not sit inside a single head; it lives in the connections between us.
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What “Chi” Measures
Chi is a measure for the health of flow between sensing, interpreting, deciding and learning.
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The Intelligence Stack
Four interdependent layers, from person to society, that show where intelligence flows and where it pools.
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From Data to Meaning
We have more data than ever and less orientation; the missing layers lie between data and wisdom.
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Three Ways of Asking AI
How you ask shapes what you receive, and only one way of asking creates real depth.
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Chi as System-Level Coherence
Coherence is the condition that decides whether the parts of a system can work together at all.
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The Journey Ahead
The systems we build now encode our assumptions about intelligence, and they will shape the decades to come.
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