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  • My fortnight of solitude: the power of retreat

    My fortnight of solitude: the power of retreat

    My spouse had given me the gift of solitary retreat. I eschewed transcontinental travel, metal detectors, even four-wheeled vehicles — along with social media, e-mail, news and sustained human contact. Ultimately, I enjoyed the temporary freedom of deriving any sense of self from my reflection in the eyes of others.

  • The importance of Make. Do.

    The importance of Make. Do.

    Today is my daughter’s 9th birthday. Rose has been passionate about the ocean, its inhabitants and its health for almost as long as she has been walking. She also sometimes has a hard time falling asleep, her mind is still so active with the weight of the world by day’s end. Like all kids, she loves…

  • Storytelling needs a social infrastructure

    Storytelling needs a social infrastructure

    I published a letter to my community at the same time another leader did the same to his exponentially larger one yesterday. Coincidentally, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and I both explicitly referenced “social infrastructure” as counterbalance to the tech solutionism many of us early adopters championed over a decade ago. In that time, we’ve grown accustomed…

  • Don’t forget to write

    Don’t forget to write

    Why it’s important to capture meaningful moments and share them with others as stories. You just never know…