It's Going to be OK (but not like we thought) - review

This book does what few memoirs attempt: it uses personal narrative as the credentialing mechanism for a paradigm shift.

What A Pattern Language did for architecture, The Fifth Discipline did for organizations, and Doughnut Economics did for planetary boundaries—this memoir does for human-AI collaboration.

It offers:

• A new perceptual framework (The Sphere)—a way of seeing whole systems, field-tested across 50+ applications over 25 years
• A lived demonstration of the methodology—the 400-page narrative itself is pattern-recognition training
• The foundation for what comes next—The Center for Spherical Thinking as research home and application laboratory

This is the origin story for a paradigm shift. The book is Part One. The architecture is ready.