Week 30, 2020 - Time is so elastic

The weeks are slipping by, sometimes unnoticed and sometimes violently. I’ve developed a very active journaling practice in the last month and feel ready to start with the public weeknotes again. It is a pleasure to write here.

I’ve been thinking a lot about collective memory and totem poles and stories. I believe there is a deep need for facilitated sensemaking of our collective experience [whatever unit that may be] and to be intentional about abstracting and recognizing its value, collecting artifacts for future re-visiting, and deciding what to carry on into the future. During my last few thorny projects, I yearned for a documentarian or archivist to have accompanied the journey to help us make sense and document the struggles and breakthroughs. We cannot do that _and_ run the project at the same time.

It’s been hard to focus. After more than a decade of client work, I can make myself do it for the sake of delivering at the speed and quality that I aspire to, but for everything else, it’s really, really hard. Getting out on my bike and writing helps, and I’m resolved to do more of those activities.