Dear ServiceSpace Fellows,

This Saturday, about twenty of us will gather for a turning we're calling DailyGood 2.0. Learn more and RSVP here, if you're available and your heart nudges you in that direction.

This isn’t a new beginning, exactly. More like a new breath in an ancient chant.

A few years ago, Miyagi-san arrived at the Gandhi Ashram purely on his intuition. After decades of tireless work—7 days a week, incubating over 2500 social enterprises in Japan—he paused and heard a quiet whisper: “The world needs something else now. I’m going to quit my job.”  With Kotaro's leadership and a small circle of noble friends, they began hosting retreats. Once every month in 2024. Rooted, simple, principled. In December, many of us -- including Preeta, Ari, Victor, and Guri -- journeyed Kyoto, Mt. Koya and beyond in a 10-day pilgrimage that felt more like an organism than an organization. "The ServiceSpace principles actually work," Kotaro chuckled, eyes alight. "The hard part is sticking with them." :)

Just this morning, I noticed YouTube turned twenty. It reminded me that I had forgotten that ServiceSpace turned twenty-six. :) Yet, as any monk will tell you, prayer isn't about counting the beads in the rosary. It’s about sitting in reverence, until the invisible binding thread reveals itself.

Six weeks after that Japan pilgrimage, the "winter tsunami" unfolded in India—across ten cities, twelve retreats, twenty-plus circles and more. Heart Intelligence. Startup Service. Education. AI. Business. We can count the seeds in an apple, they say, but not the apples in a seed. The "many to many" networks aren't meant to be graphed; they are felt. One evening, 300 of us stood under an open sky, stories still warm in our hearts. Then, without a word, we moved—like starlings—into a great spiral. A living mandala of kinship. A movement without megaphones, a murmuration with the cadence of consciousness.

Such murmurations are now humming in Austria, Vietnam, the UK, the US and beyond (some notes here) — each place tuning its own octave of the same shared song.

Hang Mai, with her vintage permaculture clarity, said it best: “We only have to do 5%. Nature does the other 95%. Wisdom is knowing your 5%.” Meghna, Parag, Swara, Rahul, and a constellation of love-warriors have been redefining what it means to scale love -- not through force, but through fidelity to emergence.

That process? We’ve come to call it Laddership.

March's 21-day, virtual Laddership Pod welcomed change-makers from over 40 countries, held together by Marilyn, Aidyn, Rohit, and 28 other stewards of inquiry. It is perhaps the most rigorous pod we host, and yet the most tender. It flows from self-inquiry into collective complexity—and lands us not in answers, but at the doorsteps of Emergence and Joy and Humility. 

Across all these gatherings—online and offline—“me” (inner transformation), “we” (noble friendship), and “us” (collective emergence) keep weaving into coherence. 

The ripples are visible. What’s not always clear is where they begin or end.

But maybe that’s the point.

When nothing ever starts or ends, we loosen our grip. Emptiness becomes a cradle for infinity. And when compassion roots our intention, a mysterious coherence takes flight.

A couple years ago, after a spontaneous lunch in LA, Manu, Krishnan, Parag (Karia) and I were saying our goodbyes when a spontaneous idea took hold. It was an AI experiment. It quickly bloomed. Today, it’s Awakin AI—a sacred exploration at the intersection of computing, community, and compassion. Where Silicon Valley meets Gandhi meets Himalayan Yogis. To weave the sacred into AI, we have a five-layered vision that spans data, models, agents, social infrastructure and spiritual values. Things continue to move fast, but at its heart is a Gandhian provocation: can our technologies be powered not by the multiplication of wants, but by the fulfillment of needs?  In an age where attention is hijacked and desires are engineered, could AI help us return to what matters?

We don’t know. But doorways seem to be opening.

For the DailyGood 2.0 experiment, RSVP here.

For all else, stay tuned. :)