7 year cycles

the first time i heard about any sort of 7-year framework was on a walk with gibrán when we were both working at IISC. we were walking down at the port and i was telling him a bunch of stuff about my life. at point, he said that he was seeing a pattern in my life arc that he experienced and one that he knew to be true for other folks, too. it wasn’t anything complicated: just that it seemed about every 7 years there would be some major identifiable shift in life stage.

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Covid, Public Health + City Planning? It's Really About Building a Different Urban Economy Centering a Right to the City

guest piece here from my friend, jason spicer! i asked if i could post it here because it’s great thinking and i wanted to be able to share it without having to forward the email every time lol. thanks, jspice!

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individual vs collective responses to covid-19

so let me go ahead and make my big assertion up front: individualized responses to covid-19 are fundamentally less effective (sometimes even counter-productive) than collective responses.

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in our newly remote world, what if we went smaller and more intimate?

a couple weeks ago i was talking with rachel plattus and we had (as per usual) a conversation that was both grounding and visionary.

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self-mastery: myers-briggs (infj-a: the advocate)

adding my myers-briggs type to my self-mastery archive.

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