Inside the Black Box
moments from the experiment
Inside the Black Box
The ultimate way you and I get lucky is if you have some success early in life, you get to find out early it doesn’t mean anything. DAVID FOSTER WALLACE
Paul Millerd • The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life
“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.... See more
A quote from Walden
I realized that providing expertise is antithetical to cultivating agency, and I began seeking new ways to engage my client organizations. For example, I stopped offering organizational models and started emphasizing the use of living systems frameworks, which provide the structure for thinking but require participants to supply the content and do
... See moreCarol Sanford • No More Gold Stars: Regenerating Capacity to Think for Ourselves
The only way to get what you’re worth is to stand out, to exert emotional labor, to be seen as indispensable, and to produce interactions that organizations and people care deeply about.
Seth Godin • Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
Experts and specialists are important contributors to most sustainability projects, but we also need integrators and generalists who can help to put the contribution of each discipline into systemic relationships and help to contextualize the contributions made by the specialists.
The whole is more than the sum of its parts
Most “communities” these days revolve around one person who keeps giving and giving while everyone else takes. A real community is reciprocal, but what you see now is one-sided labor disguised as “leadership.”
Ana1:1 Alignment sessionsx.comA question from Nick Cammarata to inspire action:
"If I had 10x the agency I have, what would I do?"