All memos tagged #sb-says

Reflections “Work is what one does to please oneself, leisure is the time one has to serve the community.” ~ W. H. Auden Elevation Don't be the work, be present in the work. Saying "I am working...

Being present in the work is a belief that saying "I am working on..." is an affirmation that you are your work. By being "present in the work to..." we acknowledge, with our language, the...

A whitelist is a list of approved or favored items. "Diversity is power and bias is weakness" ~ Will Cady Contexts Vice slams brand safety keyword blacklists after alarming probe, campaignasia.com...

Elevation Inspired by the above, Spirit Check now suggests you Stop working on it, but keep doing it. Reflections "You can also experiment by abolishing 'I will try…' from your lexicon, especially...

The standard control-based response would be, “How can we take advantage of this knowledge to exert more powerful, more precise control over reality?” In the Age of Reunion, the response will be to...

Calls to "defund the police" seek spending cuts to police forces that have consumed ever-larger shares of city budgets in many cities and towns. Minneapolis, for instance, is looking to cut $200...

Listen Tags sb-says (See: Spirit Check)

By thinking in terms of “should” we surrender our power. The very word carries within it an assumption of powerlessness; a wholly different way of thinking underlies “I can”. Elevation Spirit Check...

“Stop working on it, but keep doing it.” ~ John Zdanowski This was the reflection John offered of my verbose "update" which was delivered in the midst of our co-creation of the terms and intentions...

When you are "looking for" something—a romantic partner, a job, an apartment, etc.—you are, in a sense, expending energy to pull that something into space which may not yet exist. The significance of...

A wholly different way of thinking underlies “I can”, “I choose to”, and “I want to”. The story of powerlessness cannot be told with them. Reflections "Marshall Rosenberg suggests rephrasing every...