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👋 Hello! I turned 46. Here's my annual review and re-introduction.
I've done these every year for the last 16 years, and use it as a time to update my book of beliefs, my life in weeks, and to come up with a new word…
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February 2021
What's the first big thing you'd like to do after the pandemic is over?
How we think about this question might reveal something interesting about our shared mood in this moment.
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January 2021
Visualizing our shared mood, take one
Results from the question about how we can best help
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A house covered in kudzu
A return after 8 months of quiet with questions about a question
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April 2020
One meaningful thing
A space within upheaval.
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January 2020
Why We Should Create Personal Mythologies (and How)
An experiment in using mythic mode to confront the meaning crisis. Setting context for this post is going to be tough. It’s gonna get weird but I try to…
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Snake Fables, Book I
A few prototype myths offered as an experiment in designing a personal mythology. 1. A tiny snake woke up in a chaotic and dark forest. It asked, “What…
What's next???
And how to unask that question.
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Goals vs opponent processes
Dear Jon, I think you’re on to something here and I wanna see if I can connect the dots. There are a lot of things that are commonly understood to be a…
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On dragons and dark forests
Congrats, Jon Bell, you just killed the dragon (metaphor). I had initially conjured the metaphor to relate it to the hero’s journey, but am now…
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December 2019
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