by Havi Brooks | Sep 21, 2010 | biggification
Interesting phenomenon. There’s this thing that happens while on your way to figuring something out. Or: on your way to getting something you want. It’s all the incredibly useful, unlikely and surprising things you manage to learn, discover, untangle, trip...
by Havi Brooks | Aug 17, 2010 | my personal practice
Background: the metaphor technique is something I’ve adapted from Suzette Haden Elgin’s teachings. It’s an amazing tool for destuckifying. It’s also how I discovered that I work on a pirate ship and defeated the hackers. And cured my fear of...
by Havi Brooks | Aug 15, 2010 | stuff I think about
I so liked this post from Lisa Sonora Beam of things she is too shy to tell us. Lisa! In the past I have avoid the “X things you don’t know about me” genre because you guys already know so many screwed up personal things about me, like how I met my...
by Havi Brooks | Aug 9, 2010 | updates & announcements
For the seventeenth time this month: a post that is not a post. I need to either stop saying that or figure out what my incredibly narrow definition of a blog post is (possibly with the help of Metaphor Mouse). Anyway. Two announcements. Announcements! Thing #1:...
by Havi Brooks | Jul 26, 2010 | working on patterns & habits
We’re always saying it. Try things. Try things. And by try things, I mean: approaching everything you do with flexibility, receptivity, genuine curiosity and the willingness to be surprised. But then a lot of people wonder, what things?! How do you just try...
