Hi Friends-
You may have noticed I've been communicating less frequently of late. That's because I've decided to slow the release of this newsletter and my podcast to a monthly pace.
Every season — in an amusingly appropriate way — Hurry Slowly gets a little slower. I started out on a weekly release pace for season one. Season two went to every other week, and now season three will shift to a monthly pace.
However, with the slower pace, I'll be able to do the podcast continuously, rather than taking the summer off, which means you'll get a steady, unbroken stream of interviews and meditations year-round. : )
The latest episode is a free-flowing conversation with the infinitely inquisitive journalist Courtney E. Martin, in which we talk about one of my favorite topics: Questions. The power of questions for self-investigation; living a richer, more innovative life; and enhancing our moral imagination.
Listen to: "Courtney E. Martin: Asking Better Questions"
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Embodied presence. This is the first in a wonderful two-part Tara Brach podcast series on coming back into our bodies. I love this quote she uses from DH Lawrence: "We must get back into relation, vivid and nourishing relation to the cosmos and the universe. For the truth is, we are perishing for lack of fulfillment of our greater needs, we are cut off from the great sources of our inward nourishment and renewal, sources which flow eternally in the universe. Vitally the human race is dying. It is like a great uprooted tree, with its roots in the air. We must plant ourselves again in the universe."
How to have a weird internet career. A good multi-part series on what the arc to "success" looks like these days: "Weird Internet Careers are the kinds of jobs that are impossible to explain to your parents, people who somehow make a living from the internet, generally involving a changing mix of revenue streams. Weird Internet Careers are weird because there is no one else who does exactly what they do. They're internet because they rely on the internet as a cornerstone, such as bloggers, webcomics, youtubers, artists, podcasters, writers, developers, subject-matter experts, and other people in very specific niches."
Garbage language. A very funny and smart piece about inane business language like "parallel path": "What did Megan do? Mostly she set meetings, or "syncs," as she called them. They were the worst kind of meeting — the kind where attendees circle the concept of work without wading into the substance of it. Megan's syncs were filled with discussions of cadences and connectivity and upleveling as well as the necessity to refine and iterate moving forward. The primary unit of meaning was the abstract metaphor. I don't think anyone knew what anyone was saying, but I also think we were all convinced that we were the only ones who didn't know while everyone else was on the same page. (A common reference, this elusive page.)"
Ideas on how to break the ice. Rob Walker, who I interviewed on the podcast about "the art of noticing," collects icebreaker questions and he's finally gathered them all into this wonderful Google doc. I've been using them at dinner parties and events where conversation might otherwise have been awkward and, lately, on long walks with my girlfriend to discover all kinds of weird little nuances about each other. I highly recommend bookmarking this one.
+ The time you'd do anything to revisit is happening right now.
+ The most calming thing I read this week about Coronavirus.
+ Michael Pollan explains caffeine addiction & withdrawal.
+ The pitfalls and potential of the new minimalism.
+ The infinite scroll.
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Hi, I'm Jocelyn, the human behind this newsletter. I created the online course RESET, a cosmic tune-up for your workday, and I host Hurry Slowly — a podcast about how you can be more productive, creative, and resilient by slowing down. | | | | |
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