Many ills in life can be traced to the failure to do this. When you respect yourself, you treat yourself with unconditional love and care, you value the depth of what you don’t know, and refuse to be fooled by what you know.

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Many ills in life can be traced to the failure to do this. When you respect yourself, you treat yourself with unconditional love and care, you value the depth of what you don’t know, and refuse to be fooled by what you know.

Read the transcript at www.bydamo.la/respect

This platform will host read aloud lessons from the byDamo.la blog, and when the time comes. wisdom, ideas and stories from conversations with people I'm curious about.

This is another excuse to follow my curiosity and see where it leads.

I hope some of them will be useful for you.

We shouldn't confuse progress for human flourishing. We shouldn't confuse drug discovery with wholesome healing. We shouldn't confuse instant connectivity with meaningful and deep connection. We shouldn't confuse access with trust and what empathy creates. We shouldn't confuse making things easier with making them better.

We've become more connected than ever before, and more distant from one another. We continue to create new jobs that didn't exist a decade ago, and less people are engaged at work. We have an abundance of information, and a lot of people are still confused about what to do next. We have access to more data points in the history of the human species and fewer applications of wisdom.

By all account, we are making progress. And we can equally flourish when we start paying more attention to it.

Read along at www.bydamo.la/progressflourishing

Once the blame is passed on, what exactly does it do to solve the problem at hand?

Unlike blame, responsibility works differently.

Read along at www.bydamo.la/neverblame

Why the last respect we can give anyone is to either acknowledge or respect their values. Or both.

Read along at www.bydamo.la/lr

The past is the past. We can be grateful it happened. More than that, we can be grateful we all built on it to be where we are today.

The job of the past is to become something that can be built upon. And that job is long done.

Read along at www.bydamo.la/goodold

Most people talk to fill silence. Don't be most people. Talk to create meaning. Convert your words into forms you find useful. Audio, text, signwriting, visuals or video. Translate across languages and contexts.

Human history has a collection of moments where talking moved us forward. We still do today; we talk ourselves into taking action that move us forward. Talking is no substitute for taking action. Instead, it propels it. Clear communication precedes every major accomplishment.

Talk is cheap. But cheap isn't the same as not valuable. It's not expensive. Instead, it's undervalued. Meaningful and intentional talk? That's priceless.

Read along at www.bydamo.la/talk

The flaws in your art. The near-perfect, but not perfect contribution you make. We do great work because of our imperfection, not in spite of it.

Read more about the 'bug' that unites us at www.bydamo.la/notbug

Systems last because they lean into insatiable desires. For many systems, this is not intended. It's an observation after the fact.

But what if we can be intentional in our design of the systems we want to be part of?

Read along at www.bydamo.la/systems