Hello friends, it’s almost July. I’ll be spinning this all week, annual tradition.
Last call for “pay what you want” email coaching
A few months ago, I threw up a “Pandemic” services page and started making donations to a PPE effort here in NYC from sales.
Well, this pandemic ain’t ending but I’m trying to find my ~new normal~ so I’m taking these down.
If you would like to take advantage of 1 month of “pay what you want” email coaching, now’s the time folks. (This usually costs $200). Here’s the checkout for that, or take a look at the whole pandemic page before it’s gone.
Do you ever think in circles? Tell me about it!
I’m working on a mini-product geared towards helping people to break themselves out of the frustrating phenomenon of thinking in circles, arguing with oneself, mental deadlock, you know what I’m talking about :(
I’d love to hear about your experiences with thinking in circles:
How/why does the thinking in circles start?
How does it feel when it happens?
What do you do to try to stop thinking in circles? Does it work?
Just click reply and let me know anything you care to share - I’d really appreciate it.
Which tools extend autonomy, rather than threatening it?
I spent 2 hours last night tweeting my highlights from Ivan Illich’s book Tools for Conviviality as I moved them into Roam.
The book is really prescient in some ways, and covers tons of illuminating ground. Illich condemns the “institutionalization of values,” a process by which outsized institutions monopolize consumers’ imaginations and desires (school becomes synonymous with education, medical services with health, etc). Illich suggests that only properly-limited tools, convivial tools, can enhance well-being on a personal scale, in accordance with autonomy, rather than thwarting it by mandatory/induced, never-ending consumption.
Though I do not believe, with Illich, that any possible form of participatory politics could generate just and beneficial methods for limiting the tools a society adopts, it’s well worth a read (if only via my thread!)
That’s all for now, hope the rest of your week is pleasantly uneventful,
Pamela
a.k.a. The Life Coach for Smart People