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I’ve been reading your replies

You’re asking the right questions
Marissa Brassfield

by Marissa Brassfield

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I’ve been getting some amazing responses to my most recent emails, this one in particular.

What struck me most as I read your replies was the quality of the questions you’re already asking yourselves.

Several of you circled the same tension from different angles.
A sense of having outgrown a structure, a role, or a way of operating… without yet having clean language for what comes next.

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