dropping in versus coming up

since coming back from the evolutionary leadership work, i’ve met with my peer evolutionary coach and new dear friend, jess taubner. so much love there. i’m continually surprised and excited by how excellent our peer coaching sessions are. we have good time for personal catch up, then (in turn) each share where we are with making progress on the projects we defined at the workshop back in hollyhock, and give each other questions and advice about how to keep moving forward. it’s excellent, but i should get back to topic because this post wasn’t intended to be about our coaching sessions (thanks, mindfulness!).

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emergent strategy quote collection: 3

preface: see post #1.

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on expertise, complexity, complicatedness, and what evolutionary leadership is for

just sharing two more thoughts from evolutionary leadership with gibrán rivera (aka “g”).

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on the evening routine

i talk and think about routines and habits often. sometimes i wonder if i go too far with it sometimes (and have been overtaken by the western enlightenment gods of maximization and optimization and infinitetesimal division of reality (including into time - i.e. seconds, milliseconds, etc.)). but mostly, i feel good about it. nature has cycles and routines and patterns and rhythms, as we are nature, so should we. and, given our consciousness, there’s no reason to not take apply to something we know is natural.

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josé olivarez on vs: three notes

the josé olivarez episode of vs (josé olivarez vs grownups) was excellent (like all episodes of vs). three things stuck out to me in it and, though each one of these could be its own post, i didn’t write down enough info to really make that possible now that i’m finally writing this (i listened back in late august). so here’s are just some quick stubs about the three points that resonated. sidenote: i also can’t remember exactly who said these things, soooooo &shrug;.

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