bessel van der kolk: the impacts of trauma lodging in the body

i’m catching up on on being and, as usual, it’s blowing my mind. the interviewee, bessel van der kolk, studies trauma. i’ll probably write on this a few times, but right now i’m thinking about some points he made regarding trauma, narrative, and the body.

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newsletter reflection #1: it's working!

this past saturday, i had my first brunch of the season with two of my favorite fellas, william lodge and alex kats-rubin. we have a great repore (sp?) and we have a little friend trio going; one of those rare sets of relationships where everyone has their own 1on1 relationship and there’s a good group dynamic. i love it, actually.

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systems entrepreneurship versus entrepreneurship

at dinner last week, casper introduced me to the idea of systems entrepreneurship.

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meeting new people lets us get to reinvent ourselves

this week, i’ve had two or three conversations that have made me want to write this update on my thoughts about the importance of personal storytelling. i can’t remember the third conversation, but the first was with danielle coates-connor (of infinite growth) and the other was with a friend from school, xau ying.

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basic organization meeting framework (or why are nonprofits so poorly managed?)

to date, i have not worked at a non-profit organization that wasn’t poorly managed. i’ve worked at at least five. i have some systemic suspicisions about why this is, but i’ll leave that alone for later…

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