Alex Oklesson | Wild Intelligence

Exploring intelligence in nature, technology, business, and people. Building companies, systems, and strange experiments in public.

[Alex Oklesson | Wild Intelligence @Aok1490]

I’ve spent most of my life following intelligence wherever it appears.

In nature. -> In technology. -> In business.
In logistics. -> In people. -> And increasingly, in machines.

I build companies, systems, products, and the occasional strange experiment.
Some work. Some fail spectacularly. Most teach me something.
Wild Intelligence is the name I’ve given the larger investigation: how living, human, artificial, and organizational systems learn, adapt, coordinate, and create.
This account will be my public field journal.
Ideas, experiments, operating lessons, useful tools, unexpected connections—and an honest record of what happens when those ideas meet reality.

Intelligence exists everywhere.
I intend to keep looking.

[Alex Oklesson | Wild Intelligence @Aok1490]

“Intelligence is not a human invention.
It is older than minds, older than machines, older than language.

It appears in the feedback loops of ecosystems, in the adaptive strategies of markets, in the quiet coordination of logistics under constraint, in the evolution of tools, and in the strange usefulness of ideas that survive contact with reality.

Artificial intelligence is one recent expression. It is neither the first nor the final form…”

[Alex Oklesson | Wild Intelligence @Aok1490]

Being calm under pressure is useful -> Building systems that prevent unnecessary pressure is better.

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@Joi2James Triptych

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A wedding setup is basically a temporary operating system.

For a few hours, dozens of people, timelines, rentals, weather conditions, loading zones, floor plans, florals, chairs, candles, signs, and last-minute changes all have to work together without the couple ever seeing the machinery.

That’s the lesson Seaside Setups keeps teaching me:
Beautiful events are rarely created by one big dramatic move.They come from a hundred small things happening in the right order.

Good logistics are mostly invisible.
When they work, the room just feels effortless.
It was not effortless. It was orchestrated.

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[Alex Oklesson | Wild Intelligence @Aok1490]

Just started this podcast after reading the chapter breakdown.. loving the way David thinks, works , and builds

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[Alex Oklesson | Wild Intelligence @Aok1490]

@lightsilver323 https://t.co/Luqw09StUx

[Alex Oklesson | Wild Intelligence @Aok1490]

When you’re reminded what kids are missing out on these days and all they see is so-so animation and weird hair

[Alex Oklesson | Wild Intelligence @Aok1490]

Can we bring this back? Please and thank you. @CocaCola

[Alex Oklesson | Wild Intelligence @Aok1490]

Wondering if mattress firm is only closing stores because people think they’re laundering money... 🧐 https://t.co/wbb1ufLlWd

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I know that 99% of the time there’s not a bug crawling on me, but I’m pretty sure the one time I ignore the feeling that there is one, that is the time it would be a super poisonous spider... yeah that seems right.

[Alex Oklesson | Wild Intelligence @Aok1490]

@HAngleaStone hmmm I don't know if I completely agree with that statement

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@sReed_Me @HAngleaStone Hahaha thats great... none of us felt like babies at the time haha

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Mercer basketball player Jibri Bryan shot and killed: https://t.co/YgFPIHpaRu

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The unexpected little things that get your day off to a great start. >>>

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You can't always get whatcha want, but if you try sometimes you just might find, you get whatcha need. 🎶

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It's a Kanye kind of day #lateregistration

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Success comes to those that hustle wisely @Eta1513 @KevMcC08