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This is episode-8 of the calm conversation with Josie Gibson from The Catalyst Network, inspired by Robert Poynton’s book “Pause – You are not a To-Do list“. The approach is simple: we both read a chapter of the book and highlight three sentences, and mark the words that resonate most. These sentences and words are the triggers for a very slow-paced conversation on whatever comes our way. No tricks, no gimmicks, just a gentle and calm wandering and meandering of minds. As this chapter is the “Afterwords” section of the book, this is also the last episode in the Robert Poynton series. Maybe other calm conversations follow. Who knows?
Here are Josie’s three sentences:
What I couldn’t anticipate were the unplanned pauses that would occur along the way
If anything, rather than delay things, the time-out accelerated them.
Too much pause and nothing gets done.
And here are my three sentences:
Rehearse ideas with different people
Carlo Rovelli’s book, The Order of Time
That long gestation period meant that once I started I was able to get going quickly
This is episode-7 of the calm conversation with Josie Gibson from The Catalyst Network, inspired by Robert Poynton’s book “Pause – You are not a To-Do list“. The approach is simple: we both read chapter-7 of the book and highlight three sentences, and mark the words that resonate most. These sentences and words are the triggers for a very slow-paced conversation on whatever comes our way. No tricks, no gimmicks, just a gentle and calm wandering and meandering of minds.
Chapter-7 is about Time for Pause
Here are Josie’s three sentences:
A longer pause…gives the intelligent unconscious – what Claxton calls the ‘undermind’ – a chance to have a crack at a problem, bringing a more associative, creative quality of thinking to bear.
In any natural system, there is always ‘redundancy’ or ‘requisite variety’ built in; stuff that isn’t useful yet, but could be one dayf relying on just one.
The decision to start properly came in a pause.
And here are my three sentences:
Our fulfilment does not derive from being as efficient as possible
It (pause) gives you the chance to follow your mood, not the schedule
Instead of trying to cram more in, you focus on getting more out
We covered a wide range of topics from redundancy, richness of experiences in a complex world, we are not machines, beautiful change, elegant movements, cybernetics, requisite variety,…
…the “undermind”, leaving space open for sacred moments, commitment, to start doing, at the right time, after the right pause, after reading all the signals.
We also discussed how efficiency kills imagination, and why we should go into the t-shirt business 😉
Very very long essay by Eugene Wei about social capital. Is social capital the same as status, or is it more?
An initial introduction to Assemblage Space, part of an ongoing body of work around information, innovation and futures. By John Willshire from the Smithery.
An app that generates coordinates for adventurers claims to turn your thoughts into reality. TikTok and YouTube creators want you to believe it — but you shouldn’t.
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Venkatesh Rao introduces the temporality stack and how minds and stories shaping each other.
About planning vs. emergence. Citizen Jane (aka urbanist Jane Jacobs) thinking through the parallels between urban planning philosophies and internet ecosystems.
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This is episode-6 of the calm conversation with Josie Gibson from The Catalyst Network, inspired by Robert Poynton’s book “Pause – You are not a To-Do list“. The approach is simple: we both read chapter-6 of the book and highlight three sentences, and mark the words that resonate most. These sentences and words are the triggers for a very slow-paced conversation on whatever comes our way. No tricks, no gimmicks, just a gentle and calm wandering and meandering of minds.
Chapter-6 is about Tools (of Pause)
Here are Josie’s three sentences:
He uses differently coloured Google calendars where the colours represent how each kind of time feels to him..
It is more powerful if you are able to think about multiple layers, and build a set of practices that weave together the different ‘pace layers’ of your life instead of relying on just one.
Noone has a life so unrelenting that it is impossible to pause.
And here are my three sentences:
‘Exhale time’ is when he is teaching, writing or delivering work for clients. ‘Inhale time’ is when he is reading, studying, walking or spending time with people he just finds interesting
Notice what that experience is. If it was interesting, or useful, or valuable, or thought-provoking, or puzzling, or curious, or fun, or engaging in any way at all, do it some more. If not, try something else.
Instead of trying to manage your time, pay more attention to finding your rhythm
We covered a wide range of topics from responsible imagination, slower time, golden time, smell time, sound time, synesthesia,…
…colors of the months, layers, weaving, fabric, calendar, interstitials, 3D, 4D, rhythm in context, two people dancing the tango, wondering with intent, accountability for creative health, and undefended presence (mentioned in the Coaching Summit 2020 video below).
We even talked about the South-Australian Tjuringa, a Dream Stones, and artist Roman Polanka’s visualization of time.
Other links mentioned in this podcast:
The book Design Unbound (some free chapters for download here)
