things you should remember

After a lifetime working at mattering, I realized I had under-invested in what really mattered: Relationships.

Two simple rules:

1. You get better at what you practice.


2. Everything is practice.

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Remember: doing experience design well — making beautiful, wondrous, kind, breathtaking things, requires...you.

You, specifically.

Your weird, full, curious brain and tender little inside self. It wants for emergence and energy and is hungry to be inspired.

And those things need the fallow seasons. The spaces of nothingness and slugtime and dark... See more

You draw out of the world what you put into it.

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Want to attract reliable people? Be reliable.

Want to attract trustworthy people? Be trustworthy.

Want to attract welcoming people? Be welcoming.

Want to attract exceptional people? Be exceptional

A struggle inward rather than upward or outward, a reorientation away from growth in an objective sense.

I’m working on becoming more aware, ultimately—just as good at noticing what’s always been here as what’s just arrived or hasn’t yet. No surprise I’m basically just describing mindfulness, one of the oldest human pursuits, increasingly urgent. So... See more

Scientist Donella Meadows on being proactive, yet positive:

"There is too much bad news to justify complacency. There is too much good news to justify despair."

“Desire that arises in agitation is an expression of the ego; desire that arises in stillness is an expression of the soul.”

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you wi... See more