An efficient morning

Woke up at 6am. Walked dog to rental truck. Filled truck up with fuel. Drove truck back to U-Haul just in time for 7am opening. Continued dog walk. Arrived at locksmith just before 8am opening. Made copies of office keys for coworkers. Popped in to office store and picked up gift wrapping paper. Home and ready to make breakfast at 8:15am.

I take much pleasure in accomplishing travelling-salesman-like challenges such as these. Probably the key takeaway from Startical 1.0 was my propensity for "creative optimisation". This morning was exactly that, and it was fulfilling.

TechNoel

Answers to the question from Vaughn and Noor. Art with Eva...

Evolutionary Purpose

Will and I discussed finding the balance of progress and purpose in organisations (startups and otherwise) which reminded me of the book Reinventing Organizations by Frédéric Laloux which was recommended to me by one of my mentors. We found the clip above on YouTube (if you're not familiar with Laloux, it's a nice short summary of his work) and one element stood out for me: what he called Evolutionary Purpose . How I understand this concept is that the purpose (or soul) of an organisation evolves over time, rather than an individual or leadership team directing towards a specific outcome. It's very much in line with the sailboat analogy and the lunch discussion I had with the team. It is very reassuring to me that the people closest to me today all affirmed my feelings on leadership, and interesting that it often took very different paths/context for us to be able to truly connect on the subject.

Uncle day!

Thrifting with niece, new office.

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