As I work from home (and for myself), my experience in managing myself includes:
* Doing something productive before work. Usually, this is cooking a mildly-elaborate breakfast (kale & miso-onions, zucchini, English muffin w/ a slice of tomato & saurkraut, and scrambled eggs). Other times it’s going to yoga. The point is to do something that makes me feel like I’m making progress.
* Answer emails/texts and write down a task list for the day. Oftentimes this is the same as the day before, but the act of writing it out helps me psychologically solidify what I’m going to do for the day.
* Coffee. These days, I drink RYZE and really enjoy the elevated feelings (it def needs some honey and non-dairy creamer). Previously, I’ve been into single-origin coffees from Kenya, Ethiopia, and Honduras (can’t stand the stuff from Indonesia). It was a fun (if expensive) hobby for a while. The point here is to have a ritual.
> The idea of taking the team out to an airbnb (or some other communal living arrangement) in the woods or by the beach for a week or two to launch a new major initiative 1-4 times a year seems like it could theoretically be an alternative, providing that human connection but not demanding an outdated office lifestyle.
> if people take Ayahuasca in a non-Amazonian setting do they also get in touch with Pachamama and friends?
Yes. I've never participated in an ayahuasca ceremony outside of the US, and I was very intimately in touch with Pachamama.
Too, simply drinking the brew likely wouldn't be enough to trigger a mystical experience. An experienced shaman is crucial for allowing such an event to arise.
> The paradox of tolerance states that if a society is tolerant without limit, its ability to be tolerant is eventually seized or destroyed by the intolerant.
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