PowerPivot

Get to the finish line and find that dopamine! Intensives, the 80% Problem, and deliberately finding things that we can do well and to completion in order to build trust in our own abilities to change the world.

Classified documents in Mar-a-Lago and the way that individual decisions about self-preservation can do large harm; and a path towards decision making that makes space for the humanity of those who will be affected by our choices.

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An NPR story regarding the photography of classified documents recovered from Mar-a-Lago.

Wikipedia article about Tank Man and CNN footage of most, but not all, of the encounter (this video was chosen because of the available options it contains the original ambient audio, even though it does not show the end of the encounter when the man was rushed out of the road by other people.) Content Warning for threats of violence and gunshot sounds in the background.

Wikipedia article about Arthur Miller's play The Crucible

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These things that I know I need are also things that I am noticing other people need. And when we provide those things for people like us what happens? We become better.

https://www.graceedison.com/ https://www.lacma.org/patternproject https://www.lacma.org/sites/default/files/module-uploads/M.2007.211.797_LACMA_pattern_proj.pdf

We are trained to isolate like cats when we're hurting. We are trained to go off by ourselves and pretend that nothing's wrong until we can emerge whole and beautiful and sparkly-- and you know what? That is bullshit. That whole system is bullshit it's not working and we gotta stop.

In moments like this it is absolutely critical that we not shut down dreaming, that we not down shut possibilities of things that we had heretofore believed impossible. Founders, intensives-- we tend to be very, very good at finding loopholes and looking for things that nobody else has thought of yet. We know we're good at crisis. We know we're good at creative. Let's go do it.