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“Once you use intensive and expansiveness to develop a job description, to do some hiring, to do some delegation, you can’t unsee it. Once you’ve seen it, it’s everywhere. And it’s not the only metric...
Paul Baron: “what they really liked about the wall printer, which is what I’m most proud of, is that every customer we have, becomes a new company. Everybody that buys a wall printing machine establishes...
“This is the hard part about being intensive: that people have told us all our lives that we’re dangerous. And mostly, I will tell you that we are not. That we just need to find...
“It’s a spark. It’s a glimmer. It’s the thing that happens that keeps us on the phone for three hours…. It’s the shimmer under the skin. It’s the joy. It’s the relief.” In the last...
“How do you get from generalizations to the specificity that allows you to interact with a particular human being that’s across from you?” Our theme of “Love the One You’re With” continues… but let’s not...
“How do you know who it is that’s across from you? What they need, what they want. How you can take care of them, while also under stress and also trying to get a lot...
“often the breakdown between us is that we don’t communicate with the same kinds of expressions of care. And when we don’t use the same expressions of care, that means that it’s harder to recognize...
“predictability makes people feel comfortable. It makes them feel known.” Let’s take a brief pause from our theme of “Love the One You’re With,” and go on a little side quest. Tara McMullin’s excellent podcast...
“we have this built-in system of contempt. It’s a mutual reciprocal system of contempt in our culture between intensives and expansives.” It’s February, and our theme this month is “Love the One You’re With.” And...
“When we are desperate to rest, and we don’t rest, it sets off every alarm bell in our system…. Rest is the space of becoming.” Wrapping up our theme of the tension between the need...