HeyJaredField Notes from the Work (and the Wild)
Portraits and spoken word stories in service of being seen and becoming more honestly yourself.
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Two Ways to Measure Your Work (opens the original)
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Looking to spend more time with people who are present with themselves and present with others?On October 7th, I’m running Coffee & Conversation — the real questions I use in Field Notes sessions, why they work, what I listen for. Then we practice on each other. Strangers, coffee, a little nerve. Free, at Fabrik in Tribeca. Details →And on November 3, some of these Field Notes go up on a wall for the first time — The Work Before the Work, opening night, also at Fabrik. I’ll b
The Practice Nobody Sees (opens the original)
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The whole point of Field Notes is that people connect more with themselves, and more with each other.So as I was working through these stories, I kept noticing they had more in common than not. And I thought — what does it look like to put two of them together? A composite. One Field Note, two people, and whatever’s sitting between them.Here’s the experiment. Let’s give it a shot.<a class="image-link image2" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!sWMs!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:st
Ep. 4 The Leadership Lie — Field Notes Radio (opens the original)
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Eight hours alone in the car coming home from a leadership conference. Which is about four hours too many to be thinking about leadership.The quietest people in that room were the ones actually holding it. An entire industry is built on walking right past them.You’re told everything is about you — your brand, your vision, your path. In the same breath, you’re told to lead everyone else. How do you hold both?What are you actually optimizing for: proof that you worked hard, or your life feeling li
Caring This Much Was Never the Problem (opens the original)
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Ep 3. The Forgetting (and Remembering) — Field Notes Radio (opens the original)
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My daughter’s preschool teacher said it every morning, to a room full of four-year-olds.We do what we have to do before we get what we want to do.I understand why she says it. You want them to wash their hands. You want them to sit through circle time without dismantling it. But somewhere between preschool and adulthood, the teacher got replaced. A boss. A culture. A voice inside your own head that still has her exact rhythm.And most of us never stopped following the rule. We just forgot it was
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