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 not hold you long It is cracking and sinking already Sail with awareness Navigate with intention You can only get

<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 to see what really is, see why it is so, and see what is changeable. Awareness brings capacity and capability

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 is not to possess a doghouse - your goal is to learn how your team works together in building something.

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 there", even though I can't describe quite what it looks like to

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 do to be in it?" This is a very practical question! And it'

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.com/the-church-of-intentional-society/] intentional society.  I suppose the association in my head is with external boards, where I haven&

This continues on from yesterday's bootstrapping thoughts [https://www.bakejam.com/bootstrapping-intentional-society/]. I was asked today, to whom would the call go out - re the info session(s), but then beyond - am I looking for people in my network whom I trust already, or for the

I want to describe my thoughts and plan for seeding and bootstrapping an initial community around the (codename) intentional society [https://www.bakejam.com/attributes-of-intentional-society/] vision [https://www.bakejam.com/intentional-society-feels-like/]. This is step 1 stuff: not about getting to global scale, but rather how to just get beyond myself.

There are a lot of people in the world. Those people have a million different cultures, mindsets, frames of reference, perspectives, complexities, and awarenesses. Creating the essence [https://www.bakejam.com/intentional-society-feels-like/] of intentional society [https://www.bakejam.com/attributes-of-intentional-society/] requires certain capabilities and capacities in the set of first

It's the feeling you get when you dare to open yourself up and share vulnerably with someone else. They listen to you, they see you, they get you, and they reflect back what they understand and what relevant things awaken in them because of it. You learn more

This and yesterday [https://www.bakejam.com/the-church-of-intentional-society/] are both incomplete, unset, and the reference is a codename only. I'm just trying to grow towards enough of a call to call the real community of authors. Here are some "what" lists that try to capture some

My vision of an intentional society, who is it for? Someone remarked to me last week that parts sound like a church, which brought to my mind some of the roles and practices developed over thousands of years by religions and knowledge-transfer-reliant institutions. Let's sense into that flavor

I don't quite know why this thought seems novel to me today, but: Emotions are the thoughts of another brain. This is sort of inherent in the triune brain [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triune_brain] model, which like all models is partly wrong but I think true