https://www.revitalizingoriginality.com/intentionalattention daily 0.75 2026-03-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6049afe7866743450d6d8e1b/1615456637122-10446DIHN5TDED18K17P/phone.jpg Intentional Attention - Reclaim autonomy. Intentional Attention is a workshop about realigning your relationship with technology so that your attention is actually yours. We all know how the attention economy operates—how it lives inside of us, how we live inside of it. Beginning with social media and accelerating with generative AI, this ever-intensifying race to the bottom of our brain stems has shaped not just what we pay attention to, but how we attend to anything at all. Our relationship with technology does not have to be this way. This isn't a lecture and it isn't a list of life hacks. It's a guided experience that moves through feeling, thought, and action—beginning with meditative music, deepening through honest self-inquiry, and closing with personal commitments you make to yourself and to the room. You will walk away with a clearer sense of the gap between how you currently attend to your life and how you know you should—and with the philosophical clarity, practical tools, and felt experience to work toward closing that gap. https://www.revitalizingoriginality.com/book-album daily 0.75 2026-07-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6049afe7866743450d6d8e1b/1618554016268-4DXYBHEL6FDQKS44ZGGH/Modify+Mockup+%233.jpg https://www.revitalizingoriginality.com/unsubscription-confirmed daily 0.75 2022-04-01 https://www.revitalizingoriginality.com/maximallistening daily 0.75 2026-02-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6049afe7866743450d6d8e1b/1635813713082-OIZXRZPWHFAOWHIL5Z0P/Maximal_Listening_No_Text-01.jpg Maximal Listening - Listen fully. Maximal Listening is the practice of listening to music with the entire body. We combine experimental music with sound pressure and meditation principles to guide you through an intense and attentive listening experience that is physiological as much as it is psychological. In this practice, you will be listening to a full instrumental album at an all-encompassing volume through a loud PA in the near or complete darkness, demanding your full attention and sensory engagement. If ambient music is “as ignorable as it is listenable”, maximal music is “as listenable as it is noticeable”. This experience will feature instrumental music, to transcend the limits of language and communicate what can’t be put into words. You can think of this practice as the music equivalent to sitting in an ice bath. The experience may at times might make you feel difficult emotions and varying levels of discomfort, however, when you choose to sit with this discomfort voluntarily, it can be very beneficial to your health, because you are consciously rather than unconsciously accessing your fight or flight response and allowing yourself to sit with discomfort in a present and accepting manner. This can be a very powerful, healing, and creative experience. Participants should bring a water bottle, eye mask, mat, pillow, and blanket. https://www.revitalizingoriginality.com/holorhythmicbreathwork daily 0.75 2026-03-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6049afe7866743450d6d8e1b/1635814383777-NP0J7ZKI0YX6TT8JUUXH/shutterstock_216973639.jpg Holorhythmic Breathwork - Create energy. Holorhythmic Breathwork is an intense and cathartic practice where circular breathing syncs with emotionally evocative live guitar-looping music to dissolve the boundary between your inner experience and the outer world. This practice occurs in the near-darkness and gradually increases in both breathing depth and musical intensity, inducing an egoless state of consciousness to release stuck patterns and create new energy. This experience may evoke strong emotions and physical sensations, but confronting this discomfort allows us to consciously access the fight-or-flight response in our sympathetic nervous system, creating a powerful opportunity for healing and growth. Note: If you're currently experiencing any of the following, please do not participate: cardiovascular disease (heart attack, stroke, heart valve problem, etc), high blood pressure, recent surgery, physical injuries including fractures/dislocations, infectious or communicable diseases, glaucoma, retinal detachment, epilepsy, asthma, osteoporosis, or pregnancy. Participants should bring a water bottle, eye mask, mat, pillow, and blanket. Earplugs, water, and tea will be provided. https://www.revitalizingoriginality.com/testimonials daily 0.75 2026-07-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6049afe7866743450d6d8e1b/1649149353391-5A5U1FT0XHAM1WCL5EU1/IMG_3605.jpg Testimonials - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6049afe7866743450d6d8e1b/1649149174066-38BHOMOB6VS8UVU8NKNS/IMG_3597.jpg Testimonials - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.revitalizingoriginality.com/innovationconsulting daily 0.75 2026-07-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6049afe7866743450d6d8e1b/1674202735359-VO17ZZIVRBSJCDWL62PZ/unsplash-image-RnCPiXixooY.jpg Innovation Consulting - Create the playbook. You lead an institution that increasingly faces domains that don't yet have an accessible literature: alternative therapeutics, applied AI, and other emerging sectors that are not well understood. The research you’d normally buy doesn't exist. The consultants you’d normally call have no more grounding in it than you do. And your decisions can't wait for the field to mature. That's the work I do. I go into unmapped territory, build the map, and deliver something your organization can act on, such as ecosystem analyses, risk frameworks, and strategic assessments in categories with no precedent. What I bring is a five years inside these fields rather than adjacent to them: as a startup operator, policy strategist, integrative practitioner, and deep theorist. When a domain has no established literature, what you need is someone who has been living in it long enough to know where the real questions are. A primary source. Engagements are scoped individually. Get in touch to discuss what you’re working on. https://www.revitalizingoriginality.com/about daily 1.0 2026-07-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6049afe7866743450d6d8e1b/b8ed250f-f8fb-478f-9211-39ea6c5645a6/IMG_9734.PNG https://www.revitalizingoriginality.com/nmha daily 0.75 2026-07-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6049afe7866743450d6d8e1b/5831e694-f696-46a7-9242-6260a849f4a8/Yes+on+122.png Natural Medicine Health Act of 2022 - Passing the first law of its kind. I worked operations and strategy on the campaign to pass Colorado's Natural Medicine Health Act (Proposition 122), a statewide ballot initiative that created regulated and decriminalized access to five natural psychedelic medicines, along with associated therapies and other support services, for every adult in Colorado over the age of twenty-one. Over the course of two years, I played an active role in the campaign through community organizing, measure drafting, bridge building, and strategy development processes. I was first appointed Operations Designer at the Society for Psychedelic Outreach, Reform, and Education (SPORE), where I: Worked to organize and operationalize a coalition of leaders advocating for responsible psychedelic decriminalization Participated in many of the private meetings and town halls that were critical to the early-stage development of the measure I was then brought on as a Strategy Advisor by Helix Consulting Group, where I: Advised the chief petitioners of the NMHA through focused executive coaching sessions Served as a founding participant in a series of efforts to create harmony between grassroots and grasstops stakeholders Developed an organizing methodology that has proven valuable to the advancement of adjacent non-partisan initiatives I was then hired as Operations Associate for Natural Medicine Colorado, where I: Organized and facilitated 15+ events, serving as spokesperson at several and representative at most—including our statewide educational tour, the meet-and-greets leading up to it, and our election night watch party Secured 5+ endorsements from veterans and veteran organizations, which anchored our most effective messaging Developed swing-voter messaging from our polling data, deployed across the educational tour and general voter engagement Ran voter and stakeholder education in direct conversation with voters, influencers, and endorsers on the nuances of the measure Supported GOTV through the text and phone banks leading up to election day Proposition 122 passed in November 2022, making Colorado the first state in the country to unify legal and decriminalized access to natural psychedelic medicine and associated services into the same initiative. https://www.revitalizingoriginality.com/ibogaine daily 0.75 2026-07-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6049afe7866743450d6d8e1b/bbdaaf7a-6fe5-49d8-a3c1-c39637c043e5/0Y3A7722.jpg Ibogaine Treatment in US Healthcare - Scaling access to a life-saving treatment. I hosted and organized an event for Americans for Ibogaine (AFI) on the topic of integrating ibogaine treatment into the US healthcare system. The event featured a panel I moderated with Former Texas Governor Rick Perry, Board Chair of Americans for Ibogaine, W. Bryan Hubbard, CEO of Americans for Ibogaine and Former Chairman and Executive Director of the Kentucky Opioid Abatement Advisory Commission, Marcus Luttrell, Retired Navy SEAL, Navy Cross and Purple Heart Recipient, Author of Lone Survivor, and Board Member of Americans for Ibogaine, and Tasia Poinsatte, Colorado State Director of Healing Advocacy Fund and Former Research Director at RBI Strategies. To those who don’t yet know about the life-saving power of this treatment, here is how I described it in my opening remarks: “Ibogaine is the most effective means of quieting that hungry ghost we call opiate addiction, of helping our veterans not commit suicide when they are on their last leg of hope and can no longer bear the burden of the complex PTSD and moral injury they have experienced both on and off the battlefield, and not to mention ibogaine’s potential to break us from the shackles of technology addiction, love addiction, and all of those dependencies that keep us stuck in a place of lack.” With only a month’s notice to organize this, I filled the room with 80 high-caliber healthcare innovators and raised Americans for Ibogaine over $5,000 from generous sponsors and attendees. People found the event deeply moving, and it brought us one step closer to creating access to this life-saving treatment for all who can benefit. One month later, the federal landscape shifted with the signing of Accelerating Medical Treatments for Serious Mental Illness. https://www.revitalizingoriginality.com/tosog daily 0.75 2026-07-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6049afe7866743450d6d8e1b/1628395988837-IUOHWJUFYCIQDQ7P6IY9/red_book1-xl.jpg The Other Side of God - Can we trust the universe? The dominant answer to the problem of Evil in Western thought is that Evil isn't really there. Augustine called it privatio boni—a privation, an absence of Good, with no positive existence of its own. Jung called that doctrine nonsensical, and this talk takes his side. I gave an oratory to a political theology book club I’m a member of in association with our reading of the Bible’s Book of Job alongside Carl Jung's Answer to Job. I argue that Good and Evil are not human inventions projected onto a neutral cosmos but forces intrinsic to it—that God is both, that Job knew it, and that our refusal to see it is why we project our own worst parts onto scapegoats rather than face them. The consequences run further than theology: it's why destruction does not reliably produce creation, why the worst evils in history announced themselves as the greatest goods, and why "trust the universe" is a much harder sell than it sounds. Should we go with the flow if the flow is leading to a waterfall with sharp rocks at the bottom? The Tao is not simply the way; the Tao is a spectrum from the right way to the wrong way. This is an introduction to one of the central arguments of Beyond Within. https://www.revitalizingoriginality.com/boc daily 0.75 2026-07-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6049afe7866743450d6d8e1b/64e043f2-8e94-4880-b639-3ce09f3ea839/Tomorrow%27s+Harvest.jpg Boards of Canada's Message to Humanity - What is being harvested? Boards of Canada's album Tomorrow's Harvest came out in 2013 with a cover showing Silicon Valley from across the bay—fogged, spectral, full and empty at once. It posed a question it never answered: what tomorrow, and what exactly is being harvested? The easy answer is attention. But attention is a scapegoat, and what Paul Kingsnorth calls the Machine doesn't like to be scapegoated, because it doesn't like to be identified. That's the fog. We didn't build 1984, a society that fights its subjugation. We built Brave New World, a society that enjoys it. Thirteen years later, the answer arrives, and it is called Inferno. In this talk—given as part of a Maximal Listening session—I work through what happened in between. The real damage was never the hijacking of attention; it was the loss of the present. A flow state is not the same thing as a pure experience. One fills the gap between who we think we are and who we actually are; the other closes it. Scrolling is a flow state. So is love, so is deep work, so is real presence with another person. Only one of them is true, and when we are honest with ourselves, we know the difference. We have waged war on the sacred in service of the Machine—and nothing can be sacred if what we experience isn't true. But the silver lining of Evil is that it's true. Hell is a difficult place, but it is also a true place. If the world is on fire, the least we can do is see it clearly enough to put it out. https://www.revitalizingoriginality.com/attentionrequiresintention daily 0.75 2026-07-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6049afe7866743450d6d8e1b/60fcb520-3446-48e0-b060-731a8c967daa/Attention+Economy+Diagram+%28Inverted%29.png Attention Requires Intention - How we attend shapes what we see. I wrote a feature for Areo Magazine in 2019 called Attention Requires Intention. This was when the attention crisis was still mostly discussed as a systems problem—regulate the platforms, change the incentives, and wait for someone else to fix it. The piece argues that the harder work is individual, and distinguishes technical intentions—which change how we use technology—from philosophical intentions, which change how we think and feel about it. The first without the second is a losing game. Technology is not an object; it's a faculty. The way we use technology is not different from who we are, insofar as we know who we are our how we use technology. The article was shared 30 times and Cal Newport and Matthew Crawford both had kind things to say about it. These days, there are three things in the piece I'd now put differently: "The attention economy" is too shallow a framing—it sounds like a business model you could regulate away, when what we're dealing with is closer to what Paul Kingsnorth calls the Machine, a force that adopts many scapegoats but hardly ever gets identified. The problem isn't what we attend to; it's how we attend at all. Iain McGilchrist gave me the vocabulary I was missing: the Machine isn't merely exploiting our attention, it's the left hemisphere's mode of attending—explicit, fragmented, quantified, and competitive—externalized as infrastructure and amplified at civilizational scale, teaching us a way of attending that is machinic rather than human. And the most difficult part is that a flow state is not the same thing as a pure experience: scrolling is a flow state, and so is love, and so is deep work, and from the inside they can feel the same. That discernment is not something you do once and then get on with your life. It's the whole practice. I still stand by the notion that technology is not an object, but rather a faculty. Everything above follows from taking that seriously. All of this material now informs a workshop I facilitate called Intentional Attention. https://www.revitalizingoriginality.com/intentionalattentioncoverage daily 0.75 2026-07-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6049afe7866743450d6d8e1b/84539236-3f76-4947-9a6a-0c198871a9e5/Intentional+Attention+promo+image.png "Intention Attention" (Utopia in Beta) - Inner work is outer work. There’s a narrative floating around Silicon Valley that minimizes the importance of working on ourselves. Some claim that we’ve put too much emphasis going to “inner space” and not enough going to “outer space”. Others state that their goal is “zero introspection”. An increasing number of startups are adopting the "996" norm of working 9am-9pm 6 days a week—leaving little time to realistically attend to all of the core pillars of our health. I know from experience how much dedication it takes to build a successful organization, but another thing I know is how dangerous it is to discount wisdom in our criteria for success. Is it any coincidence that we've found ourselves in an AI arms race that incentivizes competition over cooperation, comorbid with an increasingly lonely and isolated culture, largely manufactured by Big Tech’s two-decade race to the bottom of our brain stems? Does this sound like a culture that has properly attended to its inner life? Isabelle Castro digs into these issues in an article she interviewed me for on mastering our attention in the age of AI. A key question every founder should sit with is: how does my inner work affect my outer work, for better or for worse? As many wisdom traditions have stated for millennia: the divide between "inner" and "outer" is illusory.