September 4th, 2021
- #2tweet WGS
- This "World's Greatest Stretch" lives up to its name. I usually don't feel much difference from doing stretches but this one I noticed an immediate asymmetry after I'd done it on only one side.
Source: youtube.com/watch?v=BGrw5z1SjtA
video: /tmp/wgs.mp4
- maybe the Civium one? or maybe not
- some resonance with this and the obstacle is the way
- > It can be really discouraging when progress seems state dependent (“if only I were in that other state!“), but taking correct actions, as best one can, in any state, is the thing that metabolizes, over a long time, whatever state one happens to be in (and part of that is fully accepting being in the state, if/eventually/when it’s safe to do so).
Like, the state IS the very stuff of practice, not a thing in the background that conditions practice.
- 16:00 - starting a kind of writing block
- looking at Sequence on NNTD
- started reviewing an old doc “H3” & “NNTD” as specific protocols & meta-protocols
- it's so good but it's so high context, like I kinda want to share it just internally to the Upstart scene, because it would be hard to parse for people just reading my blog
- there's a whole thing about how to give that context in general for all of what I want to write
- that's part of why the 2020: Free to Dance yearly review post was so good, because it was easy for it to situate everything
- looking at What's the deal doc (another unpublished piece of writing, from August 29th, 2020)
- and this obviously can't be published as is, but has a lot of juicy material on
- I guess that the piece of writing on how my thinking has transcended the Upstart "Commitments & Assumptions", steelmanning them at the same time, would be a really useful context piece for what the culture is pointing at
- both the C&As and the circles maps are CC BY-NC-SA, so I have permission to remix them although whatever I'd be creating would need to also be CC licensed
- man, the circles are so good, but presenting them tends so strongly towards reifying a dualistic H2 vs H3 frame which in turn results in thinking that rejects other thinking
- re-reading The Circles Maps
- hm I want to figure out what to do with "good" & "bad"
- yeah, this is broadly quite good (lol)
- started working a bit on post-blame apology, writing up a sort of blog post draft there
- feeling a bit stuck/bleh/whatever there though
- lemme quickly make sure to note down all thoughts I have briefly though before they're gone
- I'm thinking that a good next showtime might actually be the NNTD pith instructions discussion
- since like the ITD case studies, it's a simple introduction and it's situated and real
- I feel like some of what I'm trying to say would benefit from introduction to the mindset & cultural platform shift post talking about the H2/H3 distinction, but it's extremely slippery and could so easily veer into thinking that rejects other thinking
- And there's something very potent about pointing at these general principles as they apply to everyone, not getting fixated on the implications for people at the very leading edge of group coherence stuff. Those people will probably be able to see how this stuff all applies to their work anyway.
- If I were to do this though, what would some approaches be?
- One approach would be basically trying to outline the elements kind of like I was doing with this question: What are the components or dimensions required for collaborative culture?
- A different approach would be to compare & contrast like 4 different models of the mindset/culture shift
- eg
- 2. dev psych models
- David Chapman's complete stance (kinda also different)
- Kegan stages (?)
- integral/SD stages (?)
- 3. biz psych mindsets
- below/above the line
- inward/outward mindset
- 4. cultural models
- Robert Gilman's model
- (see many things listed under Pointing at the shift / mindset pairs / ways of being)
- A third approach to this would be something like that piece I started writing in smmo
- That's a fun and very analytic & rigorous piece, and it would be fun to flesh it out and have someone critique it and to refine it. But I don't know if I'm going to be in the mood to work on it more anytime soon.