journal Monday warm up Hello Monday, silence, opportunity of time. Hello awareness, choice, sensing, passion without fixation. What wants to be heard, expressed, fulfilled? What is mine to do today? What role at all
journal remembering the greenhouse This is a meta post to bring me back into contact with this workflow, this writing editor, and activate the sense of muscle memory that comes from stepping back into
journal my phenomenology of free attention Hey self, what's on your mind? ... Nah, I don't want to keep up that rhetorical style. (Awkward start, but no deleting! Plow forward) Nor reify IFS parts either — it's not
journal just plain typing Sometimes I think about typing here, exploring something out in the open, and I shy away because of some concept of... wanting it to be high-quality, in case it might
journal feelings about fixing the computer This post hearkens back to my feelings about the dishwasher [https://www.bakejam.com/feelings-about-the-dishwasher/] over a year ago. Today I spent 6 to 7 hours of effort across 12
journal drafts in the icebox This is just to say I have deleted the drafts that were in the icebox and which probably had some good stuff that could have been written at one point
journal a soaring grounding Hello to myself, writing from the middle of an Intentional Society session. I've just sent the boats out to sea, and we happen to have no day-trippers around other than
journal consider blogging That's what my daily tasklist says currently - "consider blogging." Not to demand that I write, but to think about it in the context of setting my intentions for the
journal emotions as another brain I heard a child's reactions upstairs: noises that conveyed emotional states. Shock, distress, anger, grief, a few seconds each, one flowing into another. This seemed to resolve without any parental
essay a one minute message To those who live and grow. There is a further shore A further shore of how to be Beyond the ocean of knowing You know already This current ground will
journal commitments and agreements When someone asks you "to commit" to something, there are two interestingly different senses of the word to consider and disambiguate. The first is a synonym of "dedicate" - to
journal just waving hello Hello, I'm still around! When I'm not here, you see, I'm over there [https://www.intentionalsociety.org]. It's been a fun couple weeks. We've just about hit critical mass, I
journal talk and action I did some one-on-one calls on Sunday for Intentional Society [https://www.intentionalsociety.org], getting more familiar with folks and quizzing them about their hopes for personal/ultimate outcomes and
journal goal recrafting I started using Complice [https://complice.co] six months ago now. Coincidentally, that was right after I glimpsed down below "values" to formulate my deep goals [https://www.bakejam.com/
journal growth and commitments I'm rolling around a few thought nuggets shared by participants in yesterday's inaugural IS [https://www.intentionalsociety.org] info session. One is that personal development/growth is at the center.
journal ready to not know First, I notice it's been two weeks since I wrote here! I've been intentionally focusing on other things, but I didn't mean to stop entirely for this long. I notice
journal intentionalsociety.org is live https://www.intentionalsociety.org It's like starting to roll a boulder uphill. Potential energy starts to turn into distance traveled. Once you push off, you want to sustain the effort
essay pointing at intentional society It starts with intention and awareness. Intention is the will to cause something to change. Awareness is the means to see what really is, see why it is so, and
essay building doghouses This is a delightful new-to-me conceptual label for a particular kind of experimental-proof-of-concept-team-execution-construction-project: build a doghouse. Thanks go to @SarahAMcManus [https://twitter.com/sarahamcmanus] for the metaphor. The primary goal
essay unlocking intentional society This is an explanation of the building blocks that I think can enable (codename) "intentional society" to enter amazing new territory. They are my justification for "why there's a THERE
essay rings of intentional society One of the first questions that people have about (codename) "intentional society" is, "what kind of thing is it, really?" By that, people tend to mean "what do people actually
journal how rare is good sensemaking? The pink arrow in the above picture (from here [https://www.electionbettingodds.com/President2020.html]) highlights the time (10:30 PM Pacific, 1:30 Eastern) I posted socially (for friends)
essay defining an advisor role I was asked about this a couple days ago, and I noticed myself flinch a bit. I hadn't thought much about a non-member advisor role in forming [https://www.bakejam.