book review: imago by octavia butler

What are the main ideas? the main idea of this book is that all life follows similar cycles: (1) it is begun/planed with the best intentions from its progenitors, (2) it must go through its own (probably arduous, brutal) process to acclimate to its surroundings if it is going to survive, (3) in the process of that acclimation, it will modify those surroundings to make survival possible, and (4) it begins the cycle again, hoping that its offsring learn and have a better life than it did.

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vision statement (2019 update)

made some tweaks to my vision statement…

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year in review: 2018

commitments from 2018

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emergent strategy group agreements

these agreements come from adrienne maree brown’s emergent strategy, published in 2017.

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uncharted territory: personal systems/habits/routines in moments of change

a few days ago, i noticed a trend in my recent productivity work. and the trend corresponds to something missing in the current “productivity”/personal systems dialogue.

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