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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Monsters and Mermaids

Something for today, and maybe this season the phrase Terra Incognita. It first appeared in Ptolemy's work in 150 CE and variations thereof were used to designate unexplored territories on maps. Some maps read..

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and 5 6 7 8

I love dance, not so much to dance, just dance. Proper choreographed serious dance. I went nuts when Sia's Chandelier video came out.

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This is what you trained for

"This is what you trained for."
Those were the first words I said to my team and to our community when the lockdown was announced.
All that time spent on your meditation cushion in silence learning to let go, the time spent on retreats doing all that grinding inner work, this is what that was for.

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Optimist or Pessimist?

To write or not to write about Corona, that is the question....

Two things are necessary, a realisation of the severity of the situation and hope that we will survive it.

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a lesson from a child psychologist...

A simple practice, that deserves repeating, which a child psychologist friend of ours teaches the kids that come to see her (It's helpful for adults too, maybe even more so).

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get lost

My favourite discipline, practice, or routine is one that is designed to break just that.

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Bend

Next time you go for a hike or spend some time in nature. Take a look around you, what do you see or, more precisely what do you not see?

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The rot

Organisations are most profitable when things are optimised to run at their most efficient, when there is order

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