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Moving intend.do to indefinite backburner

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Okay, so I have a pretty broad overview of your situation. Maybe I’ll try to kind of summarize it in NNTD-etc terms and so on. Sounds good. So you started this business over a decade ago, and you now feel like there’s some way in which you’re “out of consent” with the dynamic you have with it. Some way in which you feel trapped, not free. Something you don’t trust about the interface there… and thus some kind of stepping back / differentiating needed, in order to feel sane in relation to it, rather than hijacked. That right? What else? Well, one of the other things is something like… part of my ambivalence about this business is that I’m torn about the extent to which it’s something I find meaningful or just a way to make money. Put another way, I’m torn/ambivalent/unclear about whether I’m committed to trying to further solve deep problems related to this work, or whether I’m just providing some system that works as well as it does. Like if we imagine that Intend is a “digital version

Moving intend.do to indefinite backburner I'm done half-assing this, and I'm not a yes to whole-assing it. But it'll still exist. Malcolm Ocean Jan 27, 2025 6 1 Share The following is a conversation between me and me, from August 2024. Hi Malcolm, I’ll be your NNTD / Internal-Trust-Dancing coach for the day. Thanks. Glad to be in such capable hands 😑😛 Okay, so I have a pretty broad overview of your situation. Maybe I’ll try to kind of summarize it in NNTD-etc terms and so on. Sounds good. So you started this business over a decade ago, and you now feel like there’s some way in which you’re “

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