Best final line of a TV show? The Expanse: “Let’s just stay here for a minute.”

Originally posted on 2023-07-02 at 18:15 via https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn%3Ali%3Ashare%3A7081334596751003648

This is the weekend of Independence Day in the United States of America, my adopted place of residence. I was not born here. I am an immigrant. I appreciate the opportunities I’ve been given here. And I mourn for the people who are not able to have those same opportunities.

I think one of the reasons I’m mourning is that this country has been so deeply and utterly focused on independence and the image of “self made men” (notice the intentional gendering I’ve chosen) that it has ignored the other side of the coin – interdependence. There is no choice to be made. It’s not about one or the other. It’s about balancing the two, like we balance our very breath. In. Out. Life in human civilization is impossible without that balance.

Why is it so that there is no Interdependence Day? Why is it so that there is no Statue of Responsibility? What are the blinders that this purportedly great society is wearing so firmly that it can’t even talk about and get serious about those things? Or am I just missing the conversation?

January 4th is halfway between occurrences of Independence Day. I say we mark that as Interdependence Day. Will you do that?

Originally posted on 2023-07-02 at 17:05 via https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn%3Ali%3Ashare%3A7081316893826973696

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Without going out of your door,
You can know the ways of the world.
Without peeping through your window,
You can see the Way of Heaven.
The farther you go,
The less you know.

Thus, the Sage knows without traveling,
Sees without looking,
And achieves without Ado.

From the Tao Teh Ching translated by John C. H. Wu

Originally posted on 2023-07-02 at 15:52 via https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn%3Ali%3Ashare%3A7081298527749865472

Be careful out there. Covid is not over yet! I tested positive this morning after what seemed like an innocent week with colleagues in person.

Originally posted on 2023-06-30 at 23:17 via https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn%3Ali%3Ashare%3A7080685772399378432

So if an “economy” grows at 3% per year, it will have doubled over the course of about 25 years. That seems unsustainable, given that our human civilization already consumes the resources of 1.5 planets Earth per year. What feelings come up for you when you read and really internalize this?

Originally posted on 2023-06-28 at 22:49 via https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn%3Ali%3Ashare%3A7079953966326841345

Wow! Learning about Immunity to Change straight from Deborah Helsing, EdD, Robert Kegan, Maria DeCarvalho and Lisa Lahey was a thing I had been wanting to do for years, and it was hard, rewarding and connecting all at the same time. We didn’t have an agreement in place about sharing the final class photo, so I’m not doing that. But I met so many amazing humans these last three days and did so much guided introspection. I need to rest this weekend.

Originally posted on 2023-06-17 at 03:26 via https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn%3Ali%3Ashare%3A7075675001571454976

To scale agile well, I wonder if there are two basic approaches. You can be extremely disciplined, or extremely adaptable. You’ll say “why not both?” I’ll let you think about that.

Originally posted on 2023-06-16 at 21:13 via https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn%3Ali%3Ashare%3A7075581068946407425

One thing that sets apart people who take agility seriously is that they deliberately take time to reflect. On themselves, on their practices, on their personal communication and collaboration, and on their own learning and growth.

Originally posted on 2023-06-15 at 02:46 via https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn%3Ali%3Ashare%3A7074940212535050240

It is not the clay nor the empty space that makes a vessel useful. It is gravity. Be gravity.

Originally posted on 2023-06-13 at 00:11 via https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn%3Ali%3Ashare%3A7074176504590413824