Issue 09
Let's all live a little more like dogs
A Trevor Noah podcast about dogs and the limbic system sent me down a rabbit hole about wanting versus liking, unconditional love, and why the chase might matter more than the catch. Dogs don't need much to be happy. Maybe we don't either.
The weird intersection of Lego Serious Play and Michelangelo
What you want is often already in you. The work is clearing away what buries it, not piling on more.
The case for optimising less
We've quietly turned our lives into dashboards. But you can't be fully inside something you're busy grading.
Self-judgement isn't the problem. The timing is.
The problem with self-judgement isn't that it exists. It's that we deploy it at entirely the wrong moment.
Don't ask what you want. Ask what regret you can't live with.
I'd wanted to change for years. But wanting something is a surprisingly weak motivator when the path is unclear. Regret is different.
The good stuff doesn't stand a fair chance
The bad thing took up space without asking. The good thing needed permission I didn't give it.
"AI said so," and nobody questioned it
The content was there. The thinking behind it wasn't.
The quiet cost of needing to be remarkable
Comparisons eat the thing they were supposed to be measuring.
The seductive problem of too much good stuff
Not too much bad stuff. Too much good stuff. And somehow that was the problem.
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