coaching • fractional product leadership • technology for wellbeing
Brooklyn, NY
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Ok, this is big for me:
allbein.gs/ifs/
My findings after 6+ months of building and using an AI Practice Partner to help me with my Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy. Would appreciate any feedback on this.
🧵A few comments on how & why I wrote this:
Since there's an outpouring of love from people who worked closely with Dennis, I just wanted to add my experience as someone who only met him briefly – generous, disarming, and sharp with advice. He's a huge part of why the 2010s NYC startup scene was such a good vibe.
Foursquare was acquired last month. The outcome was disappointing. It's taken me a while to write this, but I think I'm finally done grieving it. Here are some thoughts on our final years, an effort to honor the team who helped build & maintain FSQ's legacy, and my attempt to finally get some closure. teendrama.substack.com/p/som…
I just want to say a word or two to remember the indefatigable Robert Thurman, who died last week. I had the opportunity to sit retreat with him and Lelung Rinpoche three years ago at Menla, his retreat center in Phoenicia, NY.
Bob’s enthusiasm was infectious, irresistible,
which he did with great enthusiasm. I remember the great enthusiasm he had for Rinpoche’s teaching, despite his deafness. And I remember him welling up with tenderness while reciting the Heart Sutra, looked over by a portrait of the Dalai Lama, whom he adored.
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The "passions" form the emotional core of the Enneagram. But what is a passion?
The word goes back to Christian theology: the Passion of Christ on the cross, but also the ordinary suffering of everyone else, caught in reactivity and confusion.
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If this resonates with you, I'm running a small number of 1:1 Enneagram Coaching sessions. These are designed to help you get to the heart of the core patterns that are holding you back from freedom and clarity. 4/x
🔜 Evagrius: a pop-up community of practitioners engaged in the discernment of spirits. It’s like Twitter, but for observing the eight tempting thoughts!
Evagrius will run for the duration of Lent and then close.
Sharing a link at the bottom of this thread for those interested!
I’ll write more soon, but I’ve been following Evagrius’s instructions for observing the tempting “demonic” thoughts, and the practice has felt relevant and surprisingly beautiful.
My hope is that this is a playful yet instructive way to engage with this 1600-year-old material!
The web app is the result of a weekend with Claude Code. I'm excited about the prospect of more pop-up communities and would be delighted to have you check this one out.
evagrius.com/
Have been playing with layouts for a gallery wall and thought this would be a good opportunity to give Claude Code a spin. Whipped this up while simultaneously making dinner, found it super helpful, very impressed!
Hey meditators: I'm thrilled to report that Ken McLeod's website unfetteredmind.org has been updated thanks to the mighty efforts of a small volunteer team. Existing resources have new transcriptions, better audio, nicer readability, etc. And better yet...
I'm running a 4-week, small group workshop starting September 17 called Standing in the Storm. This will use a potent blend of teachings from the Enneagram and the Tibetan Buddhist traditions to help us recognize and cut through our core patterns.
Link: nsbarr.notion.site/Standing-…
