#knowing

Adrian SegarASegar
2026-02-02

Sometimes, there's the moment when you know. The moment is only a flicker and it's gone—buried again. But in that moment you know.

conferencesthatwork.com/index.

moment when you know: photograph of a bearded man looking into the camera. Photo attribution: Flickr user zilverbat.
A.J. WestAJ_West
2026-01-26

Intelligence is what moves
before it knows.

Knowing is already late.

Alt text:
Two men leap across a broken cliff. On the left, a younger figure with a glowing head jumps forward decisively; on the right, an older man clutching a book hesitates mid-jump, an hourglass looming behind him as dust falls into the abyss. The image contains the text: “Intelligence is what moves before it knows.” and “Knowing is already late.”
Adrian SegarASegar
2026-01-15

Knowing and not knowing at conferences through the lens of Mary Oliver’s poetry, where metrics meet wonder, connection, and the intangible

conferencesthatwork.com/index.

Illustration of Great Horned and Barred owls Image attribution: https://www.nhpr.org/something-wild/2016-02-05/something-wild-how-owls-spend-the-winter
QA Realmforum73
2026-01-08
2025-12-27

“Suppose you're sitting next to someone at a dinner party who you've never met. How do you begin a really genuine conversation?

“I have two questions under those circumstances. The first is, well, tell me about your life. The other one is, I say it this way, I say sometimes when I'm trying to get to know somebody, I ask them, if you weren't doing what you're currently doing, what else would you be doing that made you really happy?

“Find out what their alternate universe is. That's always a really great conversation.”

From Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda: Erica Chenoweth: A Better Way to Protest?, Oct 14, 2025
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#facilitating #teaching #leadership #listening #knowing #friends #shy

Eduardo Mercovich (él)edumerco@social.coop
2025-12-24

As always, the sharp blade of Erin @kissane cuts deep: how the way of #knowing we collectively had is being hammered and what happens with that (a north america ethnocentric view, of course, but quite relevant non the less).

Grab a coffee, tea or whatever you enjoy and read "Landslide; a ghost story".

No, you won't enjoy what is there, but the resulting clarity and understanding will be enjoyable...

wrecka.ge/landslide-a-ghost-st

Adrian SegarASegar
2025-12-08

Sometimes, there's the moment when you know. The moment is only a flicker and it's gone—buried again. But in that moment you know.

conferencesthatwork.com/index.

moment when you know: photograph of a bearded man looking into the camera. Photo attribution: Flickr user zilverbat.
2025-12-01

Dear Friends of 4.14 AM (the time not the radio frequency),

As we may know:

- The earlier you woke in the wake, the better the breakfast
- Never underestimate the incompetence of the manager classes. So busy not doing or knowing. Did you notice?
- Imagine. It is a superpower/siddhi

In other words:

Went for a walk yesterday in the real world. Lot of people and birds including a cormorant about. Really autumnal and sunny. We managed to find a bench with pink Xmas tinsel on it to sit on. The bench not the tinsel...

Have a great day. Get out and about if you can-can. :google_emoji_kitchen_skull_and_tulip_mashup: :0dd_verified: :cyber_hacking: :mastodance:

#Frequency #Time #Woke #Knowing #Superpower #Birds #Sunny

Jay feeding from the ground (one of a pair)
The Forest Before Ustheforestbeforeus
2025-11-25

“Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.”
-Aristotle

An illustration of a snowy night in a coniferous forest
Adrian SegarASegar
2025-11-11

Knowing and not knowing at conferences through the lens of Mary Oliver’s poetry, where metrics meet wonder, connection, and the intangible

conferencesthatwork.com/index.

Illustration of Great Horned and Barred owls Image attribution: https://www.nhpr.org/something-wild/2016-02-05/something-wild-how-owls-spend-the-winter
Wisdom in Spacewisdom@c.im
2025-11-08

A person who knows all the answers, has an opinion on everything, has a certainty backed up by rational argument, has very little possibility of further progress. Such a person is unlikely to walk away from a discussion with anything more than a reaffirmation of how right he or she has been all along.
-- Edward deBono

#Wisdom #Quotes #EdwarddeBono #Knowing

#Photography #Panorama #Hammock #KinderhookCreek #NewYork

photo by richard rathe
Wisdom in Spacewisdom@c.im
2025-11-07

A person who knows all the answers, has an opinion on everything, has a certainty backed up by rational argument, has very little possibility of further progress. Such a person is unlikely to walk away from a discussion with anything more than a reaffirmation of how right he or she has been all along.
-- Edward deBono

#Wisdom #Quotes #EdwarddeBono #Knowing

#Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Graffiti

photo by richard rathe
A.J. WestAJ_West
2025-10-24

Knowing is the moment the living flow is framed — captured just long enough to point toward what cannot be held.

It serves only when it dissolves back into not-knowing,
when the mind releases its claim and the current moves again.

Knowing is the pause between breaths.
Useful, but deadly if mistaken for air.

A.J. WestAJ_West
2025-10-24

Wisdom is only alive while it’s breathed.

Because the moment it stops moving through breath, it becomes memory.
And memory is just the echo of wisdom — form without pulse.

Breath keeps wisdom porous, unowned, unkept.

Each inhalation draws it from the unseen;
each exhalation lets it die again before it stiffens into knowing.

A.J. WestAJ_West
2025-10-21

Perplexity is the moment the mind meets its limit and still tries to continue.

It’s the flicker between knowing and not-knowing — the instant before surrender.

It signals that a structure is cracking, that comprehension can’t contain what’s arriving.

If you don’t rush to fix it, it becomes clarity’s doorway.

A.J. WestAJ_West
2025-10-20

Faith is the silence before evidence — the pause that does not demand proof.

It is not belief; belief argues, faith does not.

Faith is the resting tone of consciousness when it stops negotiating with outcome.

It is the knowing that remains when every justification has burned away.

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