Proud of you, Adam. Nice essay as well. What do you think about the impact of alcohol in these adrenaline/cortisol cycles, and how people make decisions during the different phases of life when alcohol consumption levels are higher/lower.
By the way, you were the first person to ever show me a Ted Talk. James Howard Kunstler. On a computer in a team room in Little Creek, next to a giant lizard cage. I think about that video whenever I navigate a giant Houston strip mall.
Ha! And our problems with sprawl and ugly buildings have not really improved since then. Maybe we'll start making beautiful spaces again... I am not an expert on the influence of alcohol, but I'd say it's probably not the best for performance at the individual level, but there's some level of group bonding that occurs with it. So you'd have to find an alternative to bring about that after hours cohesion fostered by alcohol. Thanks John!
Guilds are cool entities, organizing its member under a vital purpose/mission. Kudos on your well-deserved induction Adam! 👏
The dog/wolf time is meaningful. It chimes with "liminality" which is the point in our hero's journey where we are not who we were but not yet who we will be.
Love the meditation on testosterone and decision-making. Despite the current furor over DEI, "diverse" teams with members who vary in skills and temperament outperform more homogeneous ones. A person's sex and "race" actually tell us very little about them, so we should test for those attributes and core competencies directly. The military has historically done a much better job with human selection and placement decisions than "industry" ever has, probably because it's literally a life-and-death situation.
I’ll be buying this book to dive deeper as science and shit like this aligns exactly with what I love.
Resilience is a skill that can be trained.
We are a culmination of our developed skills for better or worse. Awareness and knowing thyself allows for opportunities to begin improving those skills.
I’ve had this book on my bookshelf for awhile but haven’t jumped into it. Maybe this is the nudge I need.
Congratulations Adam!
Proud of you, Adam. Nice essay as well. What do you think about the impact of alcohol in these adrenaline/cortisol cycles, and how people make decisions during the different phases of life when alcohol consumption levels are higher/lower.
By the way, you were the first person to ever show me a Ted Talk. James Howard Kunstler. On a computer in a team room in Little Creek, next to a giant lizard cage. I think about that video whenever I navigate a giant Houston strip mall.
Ha! And our problems with sprawl and ugly buildings have not really improved since then. Maybe we'll start making beautiful spaces again... I am not an expert on the influence of alcohol, but I'd say it's probably not the best for performance at the individual level, but there's some level of group bonding that occurs with it. So you'd have to find an alternative to bring about that after hours cohesion fostered by alcohol. Thanks John!
Guilds are cool entities, organizing its member under a vital purpose/mission. Kudos on your well-deserved induction Adam! 👏
The dog/wolf time is meaningful. It chimes with "liminality" which is the point in our hero's journey where we are not who we were but not yet who we will be.
Love the meditation on testosterone and decision-making. Despite the current furor over DEI, "diverse" teams with members who vary in skills and temperament outperform more homogeneous ones. A person's sex and "race" actually tell us very little about them, so we should test for those attributes and core competencies directly. The military has historically done a much better job with human selection and placement decisions than "industry" ever has, probably because it's literally a life-and-death situation.
Thanks for another excellent essay.
❤️congrads on acceptance!
Congrats on the guild brother, well-deserved.
I’ll be buying this book to dive deeper as science and shit like this aligns exactly with what I love.
Resilience is a skill that can be trained.
We are a culmination of our developed skills for better or worse. Awareness and knowing thyself allows for opportunities to begin improving those skills.