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A Visible Path
Path of the System 2021 — Scrap paperCapture the thought. ↓2021/2022 — DatabaseCollect the thoughts. ↓2022 — Physical containersMove ideas around. Find relationships. ↓2025 — Word filesTurn fragments into artefacts. ↓2025–26 — Software / website experimentsConnect making with publishing. ↓2026 — WordPressCreate closer to public. Custom taxonomies. Structure relationships and context. ↓Now — The system… — read more
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Constructive Anger+
Ekman, P. (n.d.). What is anger? Paul Ekman Group.What is Anger?Why: Exploring anger as an emotional response—what triggers it, how it is experienced and expressed, and the different forms/intensities it can take. Ekman, P. (2003). Emotions revealed: Recognizing faces and feelings to improve communication and emotional life. Times Books.Why: Exploring how emotions arise, how they… — read more
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A Self-Righteous kind of an Anger
Indignation “Indignation is self-righteous anger” (Ekman, 2003, p.129) Felt like: A visceral, gut-level anger at being told perhaps I needed “no system.†Mine: You don’t understand what you’re asking me to discard. Why: My friend reduced years of developing my system to the idea that perhaps I shouldn’t have one. I felt strongly that they… — read more
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Emotions Travel
Atlas of Emotions What it does: Provides a visual map for exploring emotions, their intensity, related states, triggers, actions, and responses. When I reach for it (trigger/situation): When I am experiencing an emotional reaction and want to identify what I am feeling, explore what may have triggered it, and understand the movement between the triggering… — read more
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No System
Wednesday. I told a friend about feeling a bit lost, sharing my frustration at the bottlenecks I was facing with the system I had designed. He handed my feelings back to me as a solution: have no system. Indignation. Hot and immediate stomach-drop, followed by an almost violent urge to defend myself…with words…obviously…and as we… — read more
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A Way of Living
existence /ɪɡˈzɪst(É™)ns/ noun Source: Oxford Languages — read more
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Feels
Directive: gain confidence in identifying and articulating feelings in the everyday.This WonderSpark began – as they often do – with I Wonder… I wondered, what could I do to get in touch with my emotions? To be a better cognitive communicator I need detailed language. Where does being emotionally repressed for half of my life… — read more