Quality of awareness (Writing is thinking; reader beware, this isn't for reaching out.) Unfolding ways of being have qualities, qualia I guess, a "what it is like" that'
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
journal just plain typing <warning: the following is entirely self-referential navel-gazing fluff... at first, then looks at the dark side of the big picture> Sometimes I think about typing here, exploring something
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
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
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
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 "
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
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.
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
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
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
essay pointing at intentional society <meta: drafting/distilling bits of copy for a homepage> It starts with intention and awareness. Intention is the will to cause something to change. Awareness is the means
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
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
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)