it's not a small world

a few days ago i wrote a story for alternative futures about… well, i’m actually not totally sure how to describe what it’s about. in fact, i just sat for about a minute (i know because my writing timer was open) trying to find the words and couldn’t. the story is called benders of the arc and part of what it gets at is this phenomenon i’ve often experience where once someone mentions a resource or person, i hear about it repeatedly until i just dig into whatever it is/was.

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on relationships and love: the rule of 200

yesterday, i caught up with one my dearest friends and collaborators, ross chanowski. we had, as usual, what i think is our most typical conversation: catching up on what’s gone on since we last saw each other and how those experiences relate to our individual and collective efforts towards making and building the world we want to see. gotta love it.

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diminishing marginal utility of too much network growth

yesterday, i wrote about how the tradeoffs between network growth and network utilization. during that process i came up with a a visualization for how my ideal experience of network expansion would be balanced with getting things done via that network.

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limits on utility of growing a network

so the last time i wrote about something like this was actually around this same time last year. and i wrote back then:

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driving for change: on being the voice in someone's head

the other day i was telling my friend (“l”) about a blog post abe lateiner wrote earlier this year called the line of dismissal and i shared a thought in the convo that i figured i’d write up.

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