Introduction

Mapping our work allows us to navigate our life. It makes obvious not only the course we need to take to reach our destination, but also the terrain—revealing the amenities at our disposal and the roadblocks along the way. It plots our work’s context (the people, the places, the conditions, the effort, the trade-offs), helping us to envision our re

Obviously, we need a balance between planning and acting. When the left brain dominates unleavened, we experience chronic tension and joylessness. When the right brain dominates unleavened, we live with chaos and shortsightedness.

Working like this will leave you with a lot of different notes in many different places. Writing, then, will mean relying heavily on your brain to remember where and when these notes were written down.