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Normalizing Remote Walking Meetings
Very little of the richness of a walk like this can be explicitly planned. You must give yourself up to the walk.
Craig Mod • Walking the Heck out of Thailand
These days it is possible to live particularly disembodied existences, enabled by environments and transportation so comfortable you can wear flip-flops in New England all winter long if you want to. My hope is that the quest every day for a good photo causes you to be outdoors and on foot more. On foot it is impossible to remain out of touch.
Simon Sarris • On the Usefulness of Photography
Summary Meetings are an ideal place to grow a horizontal culture. A variety of practices can help make meetings more collaborative egalitarian, and efficient: 1. Clarify purpose together. At the beginning of a meeting, make sure the purpose is clear. 2. Check in before jumping in. Check-ins help a meeting be more fluid and efficient because everyon
... See moreSamantha Slade • Going Horizontal: Creating a Non-Hierarchical Organization, One Practice at a Time
Walking in nature provides such a mental
Cal Newport • Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
Getting out in the fresh air, experiencing the world at another species' pace, and walking in companionable silence are healthy activities, but not automatically creative ones. I need to have just been working, to still have a problem echoing in my mind, in order to have a moment of insight.
Alex Soojung-Kim Pang • Rest in the World: My Morning Routine (Updated Edition)
A walk-n-talk works like this: gather 5-10 curious, kind, generous, patient, inspiring people and set a walking course through the countryside for a week, plus or minus a day or two. A week works well because it may take a day or two or three for people to open up, for the so-called “situational extroverts” to fully emerge from their shells, for th... See more