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consulting for employee activism

I've been reminded that I have a very [https://medium.com/@TableauEmpEthicsAlliance/drawing-a-line-77606d6dafff], very [https://twitter.com/TabEmpEthicsAll] specific experiential skill set. Also, that I really enjoy helping people be effective in reaching their goals and in improving the world. Effective immediately, I'm hanging out my

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modernist corporate power preservation

First, they embrace you. Then, they move to co-opt you. Then, they try to silence you. Then, they fight you. Then, they lose. That doesn't mean you win. But the systems will shift over time. The next generation will find a better path.

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riffing on deep motivations

Today's version of my continuing refinements of a motivating vision. Desires/goals for an intentional social group: * being who we want to be (I) * relating and belonging more fully (we) * doing valuable work (it) * creating better systems/society for our descendants (its) States corresponding to achieving those: * growing

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listening to a trigger

Status: self-psychologizing, interesting mostly for the process Yesterday I was doing some Circling [http://circlingwizardry.com/what-is-circling/], which is like a blend of discussion and meditation, with random trained folks online. I was attuned to being present, and watching out for the filtering-emotional-expression-through-conscious-choice [https://www.bakejam.com/of-me-perception-reflections/] that I

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of-me-perception reflections

I don't know of a word that's the simple mirror of "self-reflection", but I mean perceptions of me by others, as shared by them - which I was privileged to hear today, as well as last month, both in an Authentic Relating context. To

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imagine taking responsibility

This one is for the Christians (and possibly other theists, but I'm using the Christian framing) out there. I have a thought experiment for you: > How would you behave if there were no God forgiving you of your sins? Now easy there, if you feel any defensiveness

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identity is our cage

I'm mulling this word-for-word quote from Doug Tataryn today at the Stoa [https://www.thestoa.ca/] session on Bio-Emotive Framework [https://bioemotiveframework.com/]: > Any intense interpersonal encounter that isn't fully experienced and expressed will become part of your sense of self or worldview instead of

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one sense of wrongness

How big would these protests be, without the Covid-19 threat? Would they be 2x, 5x larger without epidemiological caution holding folks back? Or maybe this wouldn't have exploded in the same way, without the widespread disruption from the virus multiplying the sense of fundamental wrongness across the nation?

newsletter support is a go

I talked about adding an email newsletter [https://www.bakejam.com/adding-email-newsletter/] a few days ago, and today I upgraded the site's theme which now more-properly supports the "subscribe" and "sign in" flows. Neither requires a password - you just verify your email address

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authority and dominance

Today is the 99th anniversary of the Tulsa Black Wall Street massacre, and the first anniversary that I've been aware of it. Read through this, and/or watch the short video: Jun. 1, 1921 | White Rioters in Tulsa Destroy Black Community, Kill Hundreds Learn more about our history

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mourning in America

Feeling sad, frustrated, conflicted. Along with the rest of Twitter: > Yesterday was the saddest day in the history of @Twitter [https://twitter.com/Twitter?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] pic.twitter.com/91VP3Ywtnr [https://t.co/91VP3Ywtnr] — hedonometer (@hedonometer) May 30, 2020 [https://twitter.com/hedonometer/status/1266774310565425154?ref_src=

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waking up and growing up

Spiritual development and psychological development: engaging with the dimensional contrast of the terms waking up and growing up [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0XnO-c-iAA] as used by Ken Wilbur there. Trying to record as I just heard them defined: * waking up as the spiritual enlightenment of mystics and gurus,

adding email/newsletter

A friend did reach out, after my last meta post, to say "Hey I'm following along" which I appreciated. But it's probably time to upgrade the infrastructure here and add an email/newsletter option. There's an RSS feed [https://www.bakejam.com/

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power and competition between metagames

Today I attended "Converting Moloch from Sith to Jedi w/ Daniel Schmachtenberger" (who doesn't appear to be on Twitter but blogs at https://civilizationemerging.com/) via The Stoa [https://www.thestoa.ca/], which should show up as a video here [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfI5jzpoUbwP4wkmQ6ZNqbA]

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the first motivations

The first group of participants will also be builders, passionate people with similar visions, eager to craft a better way. The experience needs to be rewarding, but doesn't need to be pre-crafted or conventional. What are the serious contenders for driving purpose(s)? * Being a group of friends

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meta-blog week 7

It has been seven weeks now since I began this practice on April 1. This will be my 42nd post in 54 days. Checking in on my hypotheses from my first post [https://www.bakejam.com/put-public-pen-to-paper/]: > I will benefit from the ritual awareness, measured by feeling glad that

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dissonance as a practice for growth

I've been seeing more into the general pattern of [expanding awareness, spaciousness, complexity, development] (are we missing a word for this?) lately. * The challenge comes from a (identity/need-oriented?) dissonance arising * Two truths are in conflict with each other, they can't both be true * There must

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intentionality means

Intentionality implies consciousness. (of the possibility of purpose) Intentionality implies self-awareness. (of having a purpose or goal) Being intentional means doing. (pursuing that goal) Intentional purpose flows from values. Purposeful doing means integrity of values and means. Intentional self-awareness means learning. Doing is doing, not-doing is doing, being is non-doing.

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dandelions in a vase

A friend posted a lovely picture of a dandelion bouquet from their kid. That triggered a memory, of a song that used to be one of my jams way back. I went and listened to it for the first time in years, thinking about sharing it... But rather than posting

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the only covid19 solution

I sat here last night experiencing ennui, feeling sadness that I can't magically fix the US Covid19 strategy debate. The "to lockdown more, or to not" binary is frustrating to me in that people just don't see how wrong the framing is. It'

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discovering a better way 2

Attended a group discussion call today with ~20 folks in the Adult Development community - coaches, a few academics, and a few amateurs like me. One topic was really relevant for me: "In service of finding a way to help the world deal with intractable issues, how might we

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the Harvard test-trace-isolate plan

This WaPo story [https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/we-could-stop-the-pandemic-by-july-4-if-the-government-took-these-steps/2020/05/15/9e527370-954f-11ea-9f5e-56d8239bf9ad_story.html] is how I became aware of this release [https://ethics.harvard.edu/pandemic-resilience-supplement] of this Pandemic Resilience: Getting it Done [https://ethics.harvard.edu/files/center-for-ethics/files/roadmapsupplement_final_1.pdf] report from May 12th.

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getting underneath word traps

How much do "we" see how contextual our vocabulary is, and how much work are we willing to do to hear and understand each other? If you're in the USA and liberal, imagine a conservative says the word "rights". Or if you're

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movement thoughts

<Meta: Consolidating some bits floating in my environment - nothing novel, just integrating> I've spent the past five years doing system design involving 500-1000 people in a corporate org. I've also run a few ~30 person non-occupational groups in the last few years. And

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wanna hang out?

I opened up this page to write, and then left it - to go invite a few friends to hang out soon, because that's what I'm wanting more than writing right now. I haven't really done that during these last two months of physical