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tools
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relationship cookbook, relationships, tools
Life and relationship mapping
Some days ago, we held a “Cookbook” on “Life and relationship mapping“. What is a Cookbook?In short, it is what at the moment I consider “an experiment in participatory wisdom“, the current incarnation of something I started 8 years ago to collect practical advice and experiences about how to make relationships (and life in general)
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philosophy, tools
45 bits of unsolicited advice
my 45 bits of unsolicited advice
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relationship cookbook, relationships, tools
Relationship Design: choose your own adventure
[Note: I am less pleased with this writeup than with others, and I struggled more. Maybe it is the topic, maybe it is me.] On Monday, the 1st of February, we held a Cookbook about Relationship Design. I already posted some of my considerations on the whole idea of process design, here are my notes
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relationships, tools
On process design
Here are some of my considerations and thoughts I was planning to post before a I hosted the Cookbook on “Relationship Design: Choose your own adventure“. Life ensued, and it happened already. Since the write-up will take a few days longer, I am going to post this in any case. The inspiration comes from several
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relationships, tools
“For you, or for me?”
Recently, I have been thinking about patterns related to codependency a lot, and it has been a topic of conversation with several friends. Codependency sounds very harsh, in this case I refer to the tendency to: overly adapt to the (sometimes imagined) emotional needs of someone else trying to make them “feel good”. A friend
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relationship cookbook, relationships, tools
Commitments
On Monday, the 7th of December, we held a Relationship Cookbook about commitments. What is a relationship cookbook? At the moment, I call it “an experiment in participatory wisdom“, and the current incarnation of something I started 8 years ago to collect practical advice and experiences about how to make relationships (and life in general) work.
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relationships, tools
Some notes on commitment
[epistemic status: it works for me, but I am a bit preachy on this. Take with a few spoonfuls of salt] I am talking a lot about commitment, and committing, these days. I am even hosting a relationship cookbook on the topic tonight. I am realizing that, since a few years, commitment is something quite
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nothing special, tools
Permission
You officially have the permission: To try things. To have fun. To make mistakes. To go on adventures. To be yourself. To try to be someone else and realize it’s too much work and not worth it [I]if you haven’t realized it yet: don’t worry, we will wait for you, you will get there eventually.