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Strategy, coaching and storytelling services for leaders, entrepreneurs and community builders.


What sticky problems are you solving? What sticky stories do you need to tell? How do you build a company that will stick around - and stick to its mission - for the long haul?
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Hallucinations, Reality and How We Learn

"You could say that we’re all hallucinating all the time and when we agree on our hallucinations, that’s what we call reality." - Anil Seth
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Paper, Scissors, Gut

It feels like we’re doing a lot of cutting and pasting as we rearrange, reshape and edit the way we live and work. Perhaps that’s why I’ve been drawn to the work of Barbara Wildenboar and Rogan Brown, paper artists who create intricate pieces about nature, science,
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There's No Such Thing as "By the Book"

"I am the sum total of each one of the women I have played. That they were able to survive the times, and the way in which they did it, made me a stronger person and allowed me to truly believe that all things are possible." Cecily Tyson
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Too much food. Not enough food.

“It looked like prairie dogs out there, with all the people standing on top of their trucks, trying to get an eagle-eye view of the line to see how much longer they had to wait.” Brian Billeck
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What maps do we have to guide us right now?

“There has never been a period in history where the majority of people didn’t look dumb in hindsight.” Morgan Housel
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Let’s Talk About Curation

Curation. Turn the word over in your mind. What do you picture? Is it a museum collection, complete with aged artifacts, visually arresting diorama, and the eager narration of an expert historian? Perhaps it’s a library, books stacked high, the smell of aging ink and paper, and a sage
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How do we plan when planning seems impossible?

We don't know what tomorrow will look like - any more than we ever did. So we make imperfect decisions, just as we always have. We move forward with our plans, modifying as we go, just as we always have.
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Really Sane, Sobering Perspective on COVID-19

I hesitated to contribute one more post amidst the barrage of Coronavirus information that surrounds us. But this talk by Alanna Shaikh [http://www.needsbrave.com/], a global health systems expert [http://tomorrowglobal.com/], is refreshing, realistic - and useful. Hit play. Really. March 11, 2020Alanna Shaikh (@alanna_shaikh) | TwitterDe
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Climate Change and Thoreau's Profound Data Preservation

Thoreau noticed a lot. So consistently detailed were his seasonal observations, they are now being used by scientists to assess the progression and consequences of climate change — a remarkable testament to the power and persuasiveness of data rigorously collected and preserved.
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The Temple of Knowledge

Ronald Clark’s father was the custodian of a branch of the New York Public Library at a time when caretakers, along with their families, lived in the buildings. He remembers literally growing up in a library, creeping down to the stacks in the middle of the night when curiosity gripped him.
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Tim Berners-Lee: I Invented the World Wide Web. Here’s How We Can Fix It.

While the web enables incredible creativity, knowledge sharing, and progress, it also enables a lot of harm. Tim Berners-Lee is leading a global project to protect the web from being abused - and protect our information from being misused.As he writes [https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/24/opinion/
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The Toolbox Toolbox

This title isn't a typo! I'm always on the lookout for useful tools and templates that can kickstart problem solving and give structure to rough ideas. The Toolbox Toolbox is the most comprehensive aggregation of tools I've run across. Whether you're launching