evanovich
@evancm
Nerdy yet sturdy, a gay elder millennial at play,
respect how design and tech intersect, programs and projects I direct each day.
I chase personal grace, laced with insight in every space,
as nature’s hidden rapture captures my artful embrace.
I’ve learned that there are only two kinds of people:
1.) People who do exactly what they say they’ll do.
2.) People who are full of shit.
There are only two kinds of leaders:
1.) Those in the engine room helping the crew shovel the coal.
2.) Those who sit on top of the train and wave at the crowds as they pass by.
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” Buckminster Fuller knew stuff.
Human Connections and Ways of Working
We can’t address the decline in empathy without addressing the decline in attention. Empathy requires a degree of sustained focus:
Paying attention to an experience someone is sharing
Recalling experiencing a similar emotional response
Sitting with your own and the other person’s inner state
When we are fragmented and distracted, we simply can’t complete the cognitive exercises required to feel empathy.
Ways of Working and Actualization via Iteration
On escaping moral mazes….and great advice in general.
Fred Smith, FedEx
Shane Parrish
From Cargo Collective
Question from “Q.T.”: The forces of primordial pain (childhood trauma/strife) shape subsequent patterns/methods of survival and coping — though the shapes often have useful refinements (powerful talents) — on the whole, these overdetermined coping strategies are inefficient for the very wide range (and novel) nature of (“adult”
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