Daily Letter

Rambling thoughts on why we do what we do, strategy, building teams, building you, and doing work that matters.

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a million little choices

There are a couple of hundred people on this email list, and if a couple of hundred people start to do things differently, start to build stuff that matters, that make our country and our world a little bit better every day then that could be quite something.

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Regula V

If you start your day well, it just makes sense to finish it well, one thing I do every day at the end of my day is a review.

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Regula III

Here is a practice, a regula, that helps me get my body and mind connected and in the right state.

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Regula I

Do you have a regula?

A regula is a rhythm of life, something that one finds in monasteries and the like, that describes the how of living and contains practices that allow for that 'how' to happen successfully.

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Re-Member

Re-membering, to rejoin things that have been pulled apart.

I had a social media tiff with someone on social media the other day (you know how fruitful those can be...)

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very melodramatic

The stories my mind makes up is incredible in a terrible way, one little hook or one little comment and my mind races around in circles coming to the conclusion that all is worthless and we're just a day away from living on a trash heap.

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