See the Series Introduction for Just Tao It, Part I: HERE See the Just Tao It Series Introduction Tao/It on-ramp, PART II: HERE See Just Tao It, Chapter 1: HERE From my interpretation of the Tao Te Ching, Chapter 22 (Unpublished): Be broken to be whole. Be empty to be full. Be small to be great. Be bent [...]
See the Series Introduction for Just Tao It, Part I: HERE See the Just Tao It Series Introduction Tao/It on-ramp, PART II: HERE See Just Tao It, Chapter 1: HERE From my interpretation of the Tao Te Ching, Chapter 12 (Unpublished): Blindness for the color, when too many run together. Deafness for the notes, when too many overtake [...]
See the Series Introduction for Just Tao It, Part I: HERE See the Just Tao It Series Introduction Tao/It on-ramp, PART II: HERE See Just Tao It, Chapter 1: HERE From my interpretation of the Tao Te Ching, Chapter 11 (Unpublished): Spokes unite at the center of a wheel. But the [...]
See the Series Introduction for Just Tao It, Part I: HERE See the Just Tao It Series Introduction Tao/It on-ramp, PART II: HERE See Just Tao It, Chapter 1: HERE From my interpretation of the Tao Te Ching, Chapter 10 (Unpublished): Do you travel in body, spirit, and soul, without losing their unity? Are you as tender in [...]
See the Series Introduction for Just Tao It, Part I: HERE See the Just Tao It Series Introduction Tao/It on-ramp, PART II: HERE See Just Tao It, Chapter 1: HERE From my interpretation of the Tao Te Ching, Chapter 9 (Unpublished): Brim-fill the teacup, it spills. Sharpen incessantly, the edge dulls. Overfill the house with possessions, guarding becomes [...]
Tonight, in my Radical Hope community of practice, we explored the Law of Least Effort — showing up across Taoism (Wu Wei), physics (Least Action), and psychology (Zipf’s Principle). I kept noticing how clearly this connects to patterns I see every day in leaders and organizations. In fact, it would have been useful just hours earlier [...]
See the Series Introduction for Just Tao It, Part I: HERE See the Just Tao It Series Introduction Tao/It on-ramp, PART II: HERE From my Cliff’sNOTES interpretation of the Tao Te Ching, Chapter 1 (Unpublished). You will see first in this Chapter and later throughout the series, that I use “It” [...]
Author Disclaimer: If “It” Feels Vague, We're On the Right Track Just Tao It Series Introduction, Part I If you’re coming into the Tao Te Ching for the first time, there’s usually a moment—sometimes early, sometimes a few chapters in—where you realize you’re not going to get a clean definition of [...]
We’re in the habit of choosing sides. Profit OR Planet. Progress OR Tradition. Human Wisdom OR Artificial Intelligence. My people OR Your people. Much of the exhaustion surrounding modern life seems connected to this reflex of forcing reality into choices that cannot hold for very long. Again and again, we attempt [...]
I’m not the brightest tool in the deck, but I know one thing…when something that’s supposed to help us starts to cause a new problem, it’s probably because we didn’t see there was a Both/And need -- for both a Value AND its interdependent Value partner. I’m part of a small online community of practice [...]