by Havi Brooks | Dec 30, 2011 | updates & announcements
In which I cover the good stuff and the hard stuff in my week, trying for the non-preachy, non-annoying side of ritual and self-reflection. And you get to join in if you feel like it. I am baffled — baffled — about the Friday already being here. Who says...
by Havi Brooks | Dec 20, 2011 | stuff I think about
So it’s been nearly three years since my discovery that my company is a semi-magical pirate ship, and I am a pirate queen. Being a pirate queen has helped me through all sorts of business and personal challenges. Like the thing with the hackers. Design...
by Havi Brooks | Nov 29, 2011 | my personal practice
A couple weeks ago I found myself cycling into a loop of stuck every time I started thinking about the venue for Shivanauticon. Shivanauticon (which I say in my head with about a thousand exclamation points!) is the extremely sparkly Unconventional that we’re...
by Havi Brooks | Oct 11, 2011 | stucknesses & stuckification
There are many kinds of Panicky Jitters. Today I’m thinking about: the ones that magically appear when you commit to an Adventure. Like a mysterious project, something we’ve been understandably avoiding. Or when you sign up for Rally (Rally!). Or say yes...
by Havi Brooks | Jan 5, 2011 | stucknesses & stuckification
Or: the difference between process and actual destuckifying. When people set off on the trail of destuckification, it often happens that they hit the Grinding Your Wheels In The Mud phase. What wheel-grinding looks and sounds like: Looping conversations in our head,...