The Starting Point
Anna BrantenExploring how we live, work and relate in times of transition - where the personal meets the systemic and the visible meets the felt. Writing from the in-between, where the things I’m not supposed to say often become the most honest.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 46 | Founded | 2 years ago | Last Issue | 3 months ago |
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In loving memory of a father and a world that no longer exists
I lost my words when my father’s heart stopped beating. He was sitting in his favorite armchair, the way he always did after lunch, and in the middle of a sentence, in a novel about the Second World War, he was suddenly gone. Quietly, with...
I Have Never Understood Money
I have never understood money. Not the way others seem to. It stresses me, sometimes even frightens me, and it enters conversations that are really about something else and makes everything else smaller. In the worlds I try to move in - the...
Rhythm as protest – an invitation to 100 days of lived change
I keep circling the space between knowing and doing.
We know a great deal. We have the facts. We feel it in our bodies. We argue for it, worry about it, plan for it, prepare for it. And yet, at this moment in history, understanding is no l...
The last function of being human
There are different kinds of knowledge. There is the kind that can be understood, observed, sorted, and easily communicated. The kind we grasp rationally – perhaps not always something we care about or agree with – but it exists there, betw...
Why do we not do what we say we are going to do?
When I look back at the most important change projects I have led and taken part in, with the unsparing clarity that only time provides, and ask the question “What came of them?”, the answer is painfully clear. Very little. And why? Why so...
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