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Personal Reflections

We live in an age where our categories are collapsing. Personal is professional and professional is personal. Whether we like it or not, we are bringing our whole selves wherever we go. These posts chronicle the intersection of personal and professional and how living a life of purpose and curiosity shows up in every dimension of our lives.

Uncharted Insider - December 2021

The lessons in leadership of 2021 and how we are training our minds

The Foolishness Within

Personal Reflections

The Foolishness Within

When we think we’ve lost our confidence, what we’ve actually lost is the time to listen to ourselves.

Forgetting Seasons

Forgetting Seasons

Giving ourselves the permission to be seasonal creatures.

Learning How to Taste

Learning How to Taste

We have forgotten how to taste.

The Lessons of Cooking School

The Lessons of Cooking School

Learning the first principles of cooking at culinary school

Permanence in the age of impermanence

Permanence in the age of impermanence

We don’t use the word “vow” that often, and I think it’s because there are few promises in our lives that we’re willing to consider unshakable.

The Subtleties of American Western Art

Personal Reflections

The Subtleties of American Western Art

How to be anti-colonial in painting and appreciating western art

Deep Learning Retreats

Deep Learning Retreats

A deep learning retreat was one of the best things I have ever done. I learned more, wrote more, and produced more creative work in one week than I have in 6 months.

The case for Patience and Meandering Careers

The case for Patience and Meandering Careers

The status quo marches forward simply because we’re not patient enough with the risky ideas whose time just hasn’t yet come.

Intelligence as a Relationship

Intelligence as a Relationship

Intelligence is not a fixed ability within a person but rather a relationship between a person and the technologies and norms at a specific moment in time.

Our Relationship to Wildfires

Our Relationship to Wildfires

“Whatever you resist will not only persist, but will grow in size.”

Management Via Unexpected Delights

Management Via Unexpected Delights

When so many are burnt out, worn down, and tired of the Zoom screen and the homebound routine, the smallest unexpected delight can be the grandest gesture.

On Random Violence

On Random Violence

Appreciating our human fragility can also make us live bigger, braver lives.

Start in Close In

Start in Close In

The most profound creative acts start close in with us exploring the connection between our interior landscape and the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves.

Backcountry Skiing

Personal Reflections

Backcountry Skiing

Intimacy is defined more by the distance that’s missing between two things than it is defined by something that exists between them.

The Dual Consciousness of 2020

The Dual Consciousness of 2020

We've never been more aware of things on the biggest and smallest scales in our lives.

Interesting people do interesting things

Interesting people do interesting things

The quality of our outputs is dependent on the quality of our inputs.

Systems > Goals

Systems > Goals

"You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.”

Learning Spanish

Learning Spanish

The joys of being a beginner

River Trip

Stand-up Paddleboard Trip in the Desert

Roadtrip vs. Cabin Fever

Personal Reflections

Roadtrip vs. Cabin Fever

The open road is needed in 2020

Personal Reflections

Trees

I’ve spent a number of weekends this summer in the forests of our Colorado mountains, hiking about, reading poetry, and thinking about the Milky Way. Maybe it’s been the looming fear of our own mortality with COVID, or perhaps it is the way things have a habit of

Vegetable Gardens

Vegetable Gardens

The journey of becoming a gardener.

Male Fragility

The intersection of white fragility and male fragility.

Sara Rodriguez

Sara's departure from Uncharted