Hearing a story on NPR about streaming video services and ad-support, and one of the reporters said “x has to keep growing”. Talk about cultural blindness and indoctrination. Why do businesses have to keep growing? What about equilibrium? What about stopping when we’ve reached our goals? Isn’t the global mega-crisis rooted in the theory that growth is always good and can be unlimited?

Originally posted on 2022-07-19 at 19:41 via https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn%3Ali%3Ashare%3A6955245251162689536

https://lnkd.in/gQf3gRuz Part of the meta-mega-crises all around us. Hard to look at, hard to face, hard to not despair and just give up.

Originally posted on 2022-07-19 at 13:04 via https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn%3Ali%3Ashare%3A6955145292908290048

One of Silicon Valley’s best-kept secrets (in my opinion) is the Wisdom at Work meetup, co-hosted by Andrew Webster and Huy Nguyen. Tonight’s session was especially surprising for me. In some ways I don’t want it to get bigger, which is why I’m selfishly not providing a link. Easy to find on meetup. #WisdomAtWork

Originally posted on 2022-07-19 at 04:20 via https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn%3Ali%3Ashare%3A6955013479204352001

If change is the only thing that’s constant, there is no change.

Originally posted on 2022-07-17 at 01:14 via https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn%3Ali%3Ashare%3A6954241926313234432

Next week is going to be filled with COMO – certainty of missing out. It’s #Agile2022 week, and I’ve once again chosen not to attend. I will try to relish vicariously in all the posts that will be coming from attendees (it’s already starting) and try to rest in my choice. Stay healthy, friends. There’s a new variant of Covid out there. Be safe.

Originally posted on 2022-07-17 at 01:11 via https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn%3Ali%3Ashare%3A6954241161372864512

“People everywhere thrive, because we see patterns clearly, seek to understand, and act with courage to transform turbulence and uncertainty into possibility for all.” The #HumanSystemsDynamics vision, finally fully embedded in – and typed from – my memory. It inspires the now, while holding a positive image to aspire to. It has become a quest for me, even if I fall short of acting with courage time and again. Thank you Glenda Eoyang, Royce Holladay, and every HSD associate and professional who co-crafted this vision. HSD is deeply informed by complexity science, and provides simple, everyday things you can do to navigate the often/always messy endeavor of finding better fit for function in/with/for groups of humans.

Originally posted on 2022-07-15 at 06:14 via https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn%3Ali%3Ashare%3A6953592505686786048

Do you ever get tired? Tired of trying to keep up with the world for fear of being left behind? Tired of the pressure of “more”? More learning, more doing, more buying, more spending, more earning, more experiencing, more sharing, more art, more music, more storytelling, more dancing, more, more, more. I know I do. How do I convince myself to stop chasing “more”? And if you did – how? How did you find peace in “enough”, in “rest”, in “thanks, I’m good”, in “no”, in “I’m over it”, in “I’m done”?

Originally posted on 2022-07-13 at 01:49 via https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn%3Ali%3Ashare%3A6952801032800256000

If this doesn’t describe much of our time, I don’t know what does:

“A seed grows with no sound but a tree falls with huge noise. Destruction has noise, but creation is quiet. This is the power of silence…Grow Silently”
 
~ Confucius ~

Originally posted on 2022-07-10 at 05:52 via https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn%3Ali%3Ashare%3A6951775044742111232