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The Art of Not Forcing

  Have you ever thought about flow? I know, it sounds woo-woo, doesn’t it?  But bear with me. Some old writings on Taoism crossed my desk recently. Specifically, something I hadn’t read in decades, and I read the same passage three times. In Chinese, Wu Wei is written 無為. The first character means “without” or “absence.” […]

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Apprentices to Ripening

Last week, I argued that efficiency is a manufacturing concept we swallowed whole and have been choking on ever since. This week, the harder question. If that’s the wrong metric, what do we replace it with?   I want to start with a word. Ripening. Not growing. Not scaling. Not optimizing. Ripening. The kind of […]

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