Attention, attention.
Three things from last week #001
I love the lists of the things people pay attention to, are inspired by, or somehow engage with. Also, I read and listen to a lot of things and want to share the ones that have held my attention.
From the regenerative design department. It appears that some of the more forward thinking consulting firms are beginning to embrace regeneration as a core tenet. I’m spending a lot of time, myself, thinking through what this looks like practically. I suspect it means rethinking the way we do just about everything in organizations. It’s probably a good idea to get this figured out before all of humanity burns out, as we light the planet on fire.
From the more things change, the more they stay the same department. Working couples are working the same amount of hours they did in the 1880s, 1965, and still in 2020. Yet, work in the United States has completely changed. We are more productive than ever before, so why are we working the same amount of hours as we did when we were all farmers? Something isn’t right. Five hundred years from now, our ancestors will look at this epoch and likely wonder, why?
From the listening department. I was a sophomore in high school when Kurt died. Here isn’t the place to recount the depths to which Nirvana influenced my musical taste, which is wide ranging. This is the place to think about influence more broadly, and how it shapes who we are becoming. Every cultural artifact we engage with shapes our relationship with everything else. KEXP has been diving deep in the top 50 albums in Kurt’s journals. I couldn’t be more thrilled.
BONUS Fourth Thing! From the real and true bummer department. I haven’t been thinking about WWIII, and you likely haven’t either. Noah Smith makes a very good case about thinking more deeply about this possibility. And, that we might already be in it. I think a lot about culture, both macro cultures and micro cultures. I just finished watching Masters of the Air. One thing I can say for certain is that a world war is not the kind of culture I hope for in the future. There are, however, some things we could likely be doing to lessen the likelihood. Let’s do those things.
Until next time, what has held your attention?