Hello, everyone!

The past few weeks have been full of ✨unexpectedness✨, as life sometimes is. My public Roam project has been plodding along at a very slow, very daily pace. I’m coming to accept that anything I truly do daily is going to appear to the naked eye to be snail-like in its progress.

But I do have a few updates that might be relevant to your interests.

We at &yet have declared now thru mid-December to be the season of the weirdo

• We started with a declaration (and an offer)
• We continued with a curio cabinet that we will be filling with new curiosities every week

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I finished chapter 1 of People-First Growth

• My progress has been so slow, it’s almost embarrassing; but it’s progress!
• You might want to start at the beginning
• And then read chapter 1

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I participated in David Whyte’s Half a Shade Braver series

• It was delightful
• Here are my notes
• He is doing a series in November on The Invitational Identity, and I signed up immediately

“Build yourself a discipline of being disappointing to others—especially yourself.” —David Whyte

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Here’s what’s next

• I’m still thinking about how to make my public Roam project more in the vein of “networked thought” than it is currently. My intention for the project is that it becomes a way to connect with CEOs and growth-oriented leaders at people-first companies, and so I’ve been hesitant to update it with things that are not particularly relevant to those topics. (Although I have gone on several side rambles. I apparently can’t help myself.) I have a hunch, though, that my side rambles are not only relevant, but central to how I think creatively about how to approach growth in a people-first way. Maybe by not including the whole picture of the things I’m exploring, I’m limiting what is possible there. But I do want to put constraints on myself so it stays focused and doesn’t become overwhelming. I don’t know.

• I’m intending to do some more Q&A videos to add to my Working Principles. If you have questions for me, ask me anything.

That’s it for this week! Thanks for being here.

—Sarah