What came of last month’s homework? “I decided to stop fasting, and lots of good things happened after that.” Go on. “You remember I said that I’d long since stopped understanding what drove my semiweekly, 30-hour fasts? I begin doing these things, like cold showers and a daily meditation practice and Ayurvedic cleanses and monthly …
How goes it? “Well enough. Feels like a transitional period within a larger transitional period, and as that beats stagnation, why, there we are.” What does that mean? “I’ve had an epiphany of sorts about my coaching business.” Go on. “I was reading The Barefoot Coach by Paddy Upton, and there was a passage about …
What’s new? “Ruby City in Southtown.” What’s that? “San Antonio’s newest art museum – though it’s more of a private collection in a fantastic new building in a once-neglected, now-emergent part of the city.” What makes it unique? “Linda Pace’s influence. For years I attended residents’ openings at Artpace, downtown, when I lived downtown, and …
What is a reason for skipping Value Stream mapping? “It is excruciating for people who haven’t faced excruciating circumstances for decades by the time an operational-Value-Stream-mapping exercise comes to their gigantic business. Maybe they attended a Fintech conference and everybody else was doing Agile, maybe they’re applying for a bigger role at a new company, …
What else did you want to talk about? “While we discussed my SPC class, you mean?” Yes. “After the second day of the class, Wednesday, I made the hourlong drive to San Marcos and met with a childhood friend I’d not seen in nearly 30 years.” What was that like? “Wonderful. Truly wonderful. I learned …
What happened at your four-day class? “I learned thrice what I previously knew about the Scaled Agile Framework.” What did you learn? “How much I did not know from the transformation I’ve been participating in for the last 15 months. That no matter how committed you are to the transition and learning how to do …
What happened before Thanksgiving? “Well. First there was a week in Guadalajara with my four-year-old son. The highlight of which was our first experience with lucha libre – Mexico’s acrobatic version of professional wrestling.” What was that like? “Lots of fun. Theatrical and fun. I got my son a blue and white mask – The …
What’s new? “I tried entering a trance state using stroboscopic LEDs.” Tell me more. “It’s a new offering at the place where I’ve gone for the last 15 months to float in a sensory-deprivation pod. They are expanding. They plan to do sodium-chloride treatments and other things soon, but they already had available a new …
No matter what complexity and subtle differences are present in the environment, the frog’s eye is “wired-up” to send only a very few different messages. The frog’s eye presumably evolved to discard the remainder of the information available. – The Psychology of Consciousness, Robert E. Ornstein, 1975 What if our sensory systems – tongues and …
What’s something you’re stuck on? “Time and thoughts about our relationship with it.” What is your relationship with time? “An agnostic’s relationship with God.” Tell me more. “I know time exists, and I don’t have a conflict with that existence, but I have a sense true freedom requires its absence, or at least its absence …