Lori Abichandani
@loriabichandani
Lori Abichandani
What if a company did everything within its power to create the conditions for individuals to overcome their own internal barriers to change, to take stock of and transcend their own blind spots, and to see errors and weaknesses as prime opportunities for personal growth? What would it look like to “do work” in a way that enabled organizations and
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We don’t have a scarcity of grind.
We have a scarcity of optimism, earnestness, kindness, sincerity, curiosity, delight, aliveness, and exuberance.
We have a scarcity of optimism, earnestness, kindness, sincerity, curiosity, delight, aliveness, and exuberance.
No, Everything Doesn't Have To Suck | #291
Put simply, a believing mirror is a friend to your creativity—someone who believes in you and your creativity. As artists, we can consciously build what I call creative clusters—a Sacred Circle of believing mirrors to potentiate each other’s growth, to mirror a “yes” to each other’s creativity.
Ari's Top 5—Helping Others Get to Greatness
This is the beauty of alternative community space and the result of disability and care activism at work; we all place somewhere on a continuum of ability, we all could use genuine, proactive, enthusiastic offers of support every day. It is how we let our friends and collaborators and strangers know that we’re thinking of them. It’s how we feel som... See more
Thinking of You
Because here's the truth: thought without agency is just yearning, but acting without imagination is just busywork.
Welcome to 2025: On Building the Futures We've Been Yearning For
Consider the possibilities. How rewarding would our workplaces be if we all devoted our fullest energies to helping those we work with to develop their inherent ability and effectively express more of who they are? How amazing would it be if every company were to do that? Imagine a country built on this concept—committed to helping everyone not jus... See more
Ari's Top 5—On Helping Others Get to Greatness
The world I want to live in is one where everyone knows and embodies their inherent belonging. It’s a world where none of us feel the impulse to do alone what requires community. It’s a world where sharing ourselves is an invitation to deeper knowing. It’s a world where there is space for everyone to unapologetically shine, knowing there is truly r... See more
To be known
“I have a theory that chasing things that scale makes you need therapy, and the therapy is pursuing things that can’t scale. I once wrote that every entrepreneur’s dream is to succeed at building an impossibly hard business and then finally open a local coffee shop to be happy.”
Notes on scale + quality
In a world where copies and fakes and phonies and phoning-it-in to do as little as possible are so common, doing something truly different that’s true to who we are and makes a meaningful difference in the world remains a special thing.