Relational Intelligence

What’s relational intelligence?

Relational intelligence is intelligence on who you are, who your people are, and who your people are to you - now and over time.

Relational intelligence captures the dynamism of the self as ever-changing, and the people around us as mirrors that we gravitate towards and away from with their shifting reflective resonance. Our relationships are concentric circles of connection, with the people in our lives ebbing and flowing across the rings.

Amidst this kinetic field we aim to act on our relational objectives: keeping old friendships warm, seeking intimacy with new people, customer acquisition, fundraising, hiring, to name a few. And these are only our overt objectives. Human relational objectives are sidelined by reactive habits versus true latent preferences: the gap between what you say you want interpersonally and what you actually act on.

Why? Because the human brain wasn’t designed for this modern era of understanding and acting on a larger than-ever global tribe. Such complexity drives us to paralysis and reactivity to suboptimal proximity and routines, leaving us feeling more scarce - more alone - than is actually the case. Connection can be framed as an optimization landscape: each day’s relational actions take us to some area, some objective. Our time is zero-sum: we cannot take infinite steps in every direction.

Relational intelligence is the concept of a guide on this relationscape - a knowing of which steps to take to align ourselves with our relational objectives.

The great promise of AI is enriching a lifetime by augmenting the human experience with forms of intelligence we were not organically granted. What is more human than presence and connection with those that resonate with the self? We are wired for this, and innovation looks like evolving it.

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