Such Great Heights: Week 1 Summary
Over 2200 kilometres of driving (albeit sometimes extremely beautiful, like Skyline Drive in Virginia with its bajillion deer - thanks for the reco Steph!) under our belts, here's the update thus far:
CLIMB: Turbulent weather in Chattanooga has allowed for exactly 1 balls-cold day of outdoor bouldering. New skills were acquired and lessons learned, even though I mostly busied myself with freezing my tits off rather than climbing. There's a V3 called "Trouble" in Rocktown I'm fairly inspired by, and I think I could do (if my fingers aren't completely numb), so I'd like to roll with that next time we're up. 4/10.
READ: I'm still in the last bits of The Feminine Mystique, which is taking me much longer than I'd anticipated. 2/10.
QUEST: The first session went swimmingly. The bit I most enjoyed was a version of the Six Lives Exercise that was rather illuminating in terms of personal motivation. I'm still skeptical of the usefulness of group-based reflection, but I'm willing to continue experimenting. I'd rate this an 8/10.
FRENCH: Miraculously (ou pas ;)), on our first night at The Crash Pad Hostel (pretty fabulous, with its lovely and free breakfast, save for the paper-thin opposite-of-soundproof walls), the entire guest roster except me was either Quebecois or French. The friend we stayed with in Chapel Hill is also a native French speaker. So, I've been getting a little bit of chatting in - especially considering it's usually a nice way to have a private conversation while out in public in the States. Still, daily practice is elusive - let's go with a 6/10 here.
Wanna Help?
I'm looking for pointers to unconventional business models and/or organizational structures with a focus on sustainability (not in the solely ecological sense, but as an antithesis to the growth-at-any-cost Ubers, WeWorks and ClassPasses of the world). So far I've got eyes on Buffer’s Default to Transparency, 37Signals’ REWORK, Circular Economy, Learning Organizations, Sociocracy, Holocracy, and Developer Hegemony.
What else have you seen that intrigued you?
