SEEN: How to Build Purposeful Connections

We're seaglass, sometimes I think. Circling the earth unproductively, shaped by the tides, lonely. A broken piece of something, wanting to shine, to be seen and retrieved and treasured and not need to brave the salt ice water for another eternity.

Our relationships are what will save us from erosion. And our participation in radical, intentional communities in particular help us reform identities, strengthen values and purpose, and receive the support we need.

We may never be whole again. Two decades in corporate life takes something from you and leaves you too, when you emerge from it, with feelings of guilt, recogition of the responsibility you wear for the sham you participated in, how little of a excuse "it paid well" truly is.

But we can find a smoothness to life, and bring lustre.

We can be a thing of spiritual beauty: this rounded pebble of translunce within us can be made to reflect true light. We can be seen.

Reclaiming the self by building communities

Corporate culture intentionally erodes personal boundaries and encourages a faux allyship of colleagues, professions and ranks that makes it difficult for any individual to ask, what the fuck is going on here really?

Most people, doubting their sanity, isolated, approach the task of rebuilding the self according to innate and consciously chosen values alone. Unplugged Ambition was conceived of and will always be run as a community (despite the fact that many would prefer to pay and go for products and services) because building intentional communities, networks rooted in shared values and common purpose, can help us reclaim our sense of self.