February 11, 2026 | Leave a comment

A New Organizational Paradigm for Scalable Social Intelligence under Uncertainty: The Foundation for an AI-augmented Facilitation System

A NextGen.LX White Paper | February 2026, by Joana Stella Kompa        Executive Summary Organizations arise from coordinated actions. According to Niklas Luhmann, organizations are systems that can differentiate themselves from their environment. The effort required to do so is reflected in the need for organizations to continually adapt to changing environmental conditions (transformation) and to proactively develop exploratory strategies (innovation). This paper introduces social learning design as a fundamentally new category of organizational learning infrastructure…
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April 24, 2025 | Leave a comment

Trump is leading America towards becoming a failed state: Can Americans stop him?

There is little point in commenting on Trump’s latest ever-changing escapades. Creating confusion is his trademark, and he has apparently lost his way in it. By now, it should have become blatantly clear to everyone, at least since Trump started trade wars with the rest of the world, that he is a mentally challenged individual, utterly incompetent to fulfill his duties as President of the United States of America. He is a bad fish, dragging…
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November 10, 2024 | 1 Comment

American Fascism under Trump

‘Americans love our Nazi crap,’ a good friend who had been traveling in the USA for a long time once told me about the many Americans who collect Nazi memorabilia. When I recommended the series ‘The Man in the High Castle’, based on the novel of the same name by Philip K. Dick (1962), to an American friend, she waved me off. It was hitting too close to home. In the novel, the Japanese and…
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July 13, 2024 | Leave a comment

Across Social Realities: The Foundation of Social Learning Design

How we fail to stop planetary decline Despite scientific knowledge and a widely accepted consensus that we have crossed six out of nine planetary tipping points, there is a notable absence of evidence that this has translated into collective rational behaviour.  Conversely, in the majority of developed economies, a considerable demographic, predominantly aligned with ultra-conservative and right-wing ideologies, advocate for the postponement or even abandonment of the transformative twin transformation of digital and ecological change,…
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July 10, 2024 | Leave a comment

How Learning Design is more complex than we might think

When it comes to simple knowledge acquisition, learning is simple: Just read the damn book! You read it and I give you a test on it tomorrow – so stay on your toes! What is even more fabulous is that you have no say in such a learning process, neither in its purpose, its learning goal, whether it makes any sense to you whatsoever or not, nor whether filling out a multiple-choice test on critical…
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May 26, 2024 | Leave a comment

The Colonization of the Future

How does AI determine social practice? Yesterday, I was talking to a mother who was deeply upset about the perceived unfair treatment of her son. In a school essay, her son, whom I know personally and to whom I attribute a high level of intelligence, was graded significantly lower than the essay of a classmate who is known for doing his homework with AI. My first assumption was that the underlying format of the exam…
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May 12, 2024 | Leave a comment

Our Quest for an AI for Social Learning Design

More often than not, my co-founder and I feel like Bill Gates in the famous 1995 video where he attempts to describe the Internet to David Letterman. The funniest part of Windows 95 was the flying toasters, not that our world would change forever. It is hard to explain our new paradigm, but I shall try. A New Paradigm of Process-Based Social Learning In a nutshell, we can model all formal human learning processes in…
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April 17, 2024 | Leave a comment

Designing for Social Resonance

When it comes to organizational learning, I have identified three essential social resonance spaces that play a critical role in collaborative value creation: personal resonance, team resonance and system resonance. All three social resonance spaces intersect in different modes of exchange and development. Why ‘resonance’ rather than ‘relationship’? Firstly, resonance implies that we all have social resonance to begin with, including ourselves. We may not be in a relationship, but all people carry the inner…
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April 5, 2024 | Leave a comment

Learning has never been sexy. Here is how.

If you ask me, learning is pretty damn sexy. I am attracted to intelligence. The ability to learn in a myriad of ways is what makes us truly human. However, having spoken to numerous management consultants and C-suite executives, I have had to learn the hard way that there is still a terrible stigma attached to learning. Thousands of years of authoritarian teachers, the military origins of Prussian schools, and the industrialized, standardized production of…
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January 20, 2024 | Leave a comment

Transforming multiple social systems for social and environmental progress

Groups learn with and from one another. During the Napoleonic Wars, Europe learned that Napoleon could only be defeated by collaborating – until he met his match in the Anglo-Prussian armies at Waterloo. Or take cars. Since Karl Benz invented the internal combustion engine in 1886, Germans have refined and dominated the market. With fossil fuels in decline, Chinese carmakers have quickly learned how to leapfrog electric car production to fill the innovation vacuum left…
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