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I'm a three trick pony and (operational/organizational) Systems Thinking is my best trick. Mindfulness-IRL. Semi-retired, I'm learning the why of what I experienced in my career.
The hunters life is the most successful!
When the hunter runs out of game, they hunt the farmer and pronounce the hunter's life is most successful. When the last farmer is killed, the hunter starves to death. Successful to the end! /s
When the hunter runs out of game, they hunt the farmer and pronounce the hunter's life is most successful. When the last farmer is killed, the hunter starves to death. Successful to the end! /s
November 9, 2025 at 1:13 PM
The hunters life is the most successful!
When the hunter runs out of game, they hunt the farmer and pronounce the hunter's life is most successful. When the last farmer is killed, the hunter starves to death. Successful to the end! /s
When the hunter runs out of game, they hunt the farmer and pronounce the hunter's life is most successful. When the last farmer is killed, the hunter starves to death. Successful to the end! /s
Regarding the rule of law:
The people who break the rule of law seem to get pissed off when others break the law.
The people who break the rule of law seem to get pissed off when others break the law.
November 9, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Regarding the rule of law:
The people who break the rule of law seem to get pissed off when others break the law.
The people who break the rule of law seem to get pissed off when others break the law.
Your Experiential Understanding is not Knowledge.
Industry needs two things: Double-Loop Learning from Chris Argyris and Donald A. Schön, and Sense-making from Brenda Dervin.
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Industry needs two things: Double-Loop Learning from Chris Argyris and Donald A. Schön, and Sense-making from Brenda Dervin.
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Your Experiential Understanding is not Knowledge
Experiential understanding becomes knowledge only after academic research.
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November 2, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Your Experiential Understanding is not Knowledge.
Industry needs two things: Double-Loop Learning from Chris Argyris and Donald A. Schön, and Sense-making from Brenda Dervin.
open.substack.com/pub/gregcupa...
Industry needs two things: Double-Loop Learning from Chris Argyris and Donald A. Schön, and Sense-making from Brenda Dervin.
open.substack.com/pub/gregcupa...
Mindfulness: Running High Hurdles
The interesting side effect of running hurdles: mindfulness.
meditation, mindfulness, self-help, ADHD
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The interesting side effect of running hurdles: mindfulness.
meditation, mindfulness, self-help, ADHD
open.substack.com/pub/embodied...
Mindfulness: Running High Hurdles
Hurdles using the unconscious, subconscious, and embodied minds
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October 23, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Mindfulness: Running High Hurdles
The interesting side effect of running hurdles: mindfulness.
meditation, mindfulness, self-help, ADHD
open.substack.com/pub/embodied...
The interesting side effect of running hurdles: mindfulness.
meditation, mindfulness, self-help, ADHD
open.substack.com/pub/embodied...
Talking about Mindfulness, I just posted my take on mindfulness which includes a little of my origin story. 🤔 Well, maybe why my understanding about mindfulness may differ from most.
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Meditation: Introducing My Understanding
With a Little History to Set Context
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October 7, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Talking about Mindfulness, I just posted my take on mindfulness which includes a little of my origin story. 🤔 Well, maybe why my understanding about mindfulness may differ from most.
open.substack.com/pub/embodied...
open.substack.com/pub/embodied...
Is it time to remove the mysticism and mystery of mindfulness and simply starting listening to our embodied mind?
September 22, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Is it time to remove the mysticism and mystery of mindfulness and simply starting listening to our embodied mind?
Mindfulness is about your body, not your mind.
Which mind? Mindfulness is about listening to your embodied mind, resetting your version of reality. The celebrated benefits of mindfulness are just the happy side-effects. Start listening to your embodied mind.
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Which mind? Mindfulness is about listening to your embodied mind, resetting your version of reality. The celebrated benefits of mindfulness are just the happy side-effects. Start listening to your embodied mind.
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Mindfulness Rewired: Why Your Smartest Self Isn’t Your Conscious Mind
It is a meeting of the minds, your full minds in action.
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August 28, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Mindfulness is about your body, not your mind.
Which mind? Mindfulness is about listening to your embodied mind, resetting your version of reality. The celebrated benefits of mindfulness are just the happy side-effects. Start listening to your embodied mind.
gregcupal.substack.com/p/what-is-mi...
Which mind? Mindfulness is about listening to your embodied mind, resetting your version of reality. The celebrated benefits of mindfulness are just the happy side-effects. Start listening to your embodied mind.
gregcupal.substack.com/p/what-is-mi...
Even the Chinese are quiet quitting!
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The Cracks in China’s Rise
The same strengths that have powered China’s remarkable rise also explain its greatest weaknesses.
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August 26, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Even the Chinese are quiet quitting!
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What is mindfulness? A meeting of the minds? Your full mind in action?
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What is Mindfulness?
A meeting of the minds, your full minds in action.
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August 26, 2025 at 7:38 PM
What is mindfulness? A meeting of the minds? Your full mind in action?
gregcupal.substack.com/p/what-is-mi...
gregcupal.substack.com/p/what-is-mi...
Many people don't realize that mindfulness is not the destination, it is the starting point. The idea is to clean house before you go on your journey.
#mindfulness
#mindfulness
July 5, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Many people don't realize that mindfulness is not the destination, it is the starting point. The idea is to clean house before you go on your journey.
#mindfulness
#mindfulness
Let’s train the LLM with all paths taken to Chicago from Boston in the last ten years.
Start your journey and ask it which path to take at each fork in the road. The LLM is going to tell you to turn in the direction that most people turned at that intersection.
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Start your journey and ask it which path to take at each fork in the road. The LLM is going to tell you to turn in the direction that most people turned at that intersection.
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Imagine traveling from Boston to Chicago
A story about Large Language Models (LLMs).
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June 5, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Let’s train the LLM with all paths taken to Chicago from Boston in the last ten years.
Start your journey and ask it which path to take at each fork in the road. The LLM is going to tell you to turn in the direction that most people turned at that intersection.
open.substack.com/pub/gregcupa...
Start your journey and ask it which path to take at each fork in the road. The LLM is going to tell you to turn in the direction that most people turned at that intersection.
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Your Career on AI: Professional Knowledge
This is the second installment of the series and takes on the concept of knowledge and AI.
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If you want to read through the ChatGPT dialog that prompted the note, read it here: gregcupal.substack.com/p/notes-on-y...
This is the second installment of the series and takes on the concept of knowledge and AI.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
If you want to read through the ChatGPT dialog that prompted the note, read it here: gregcupal.substack.com/p/notes-on-y...
Your Career on AI: Professional Knowledge
What is knowledge in your AI-effected career?
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May 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Your Career on AI: Professional Knowledge
This is the second installment of the series and takes on the concept of knowledge and AI.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
If you want to read through the ChatGPT dialog that prompted the note, read it here: gregcupal.substack.com/p/notes-on-y...
This is the second installment of the series and takes on the concept of knowledge and AI.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
If you want to read through the ChatGPT dialog that prompted the note, read it here: gregcupal.substack.com/p/notes-on-y...
The downside of Mindfulness: You "see" more of reality.
A warning about the covert narcissist. You are going along doing your job and you notice the covert narcissist do something strange.
They "see" you "see" them. They start rumors to discredit you. This mobbing devolves into DARVO.
A warning about the covert narcissist. You are going along doing your job and you notice the covert narcissist do something strange.
They "see" you "see" them. They start rumors to discredit you. This mobbing devolves into DARVO.
May 21, 2025 at 6:15 PM
The downside of Mindfulness: You "see" more of reality.
A warning about the covert narcissist. You are going along doing your job and you notice the covert narcissist do something strange.
They "see" you "see" them. They start rumors to discredit you. This mobbing devolves into DARVO.
A warning about the covert narcissist. You are going along doing your job and you notice the covert narcissist do something strange.
They "see" you "see" them. They start rumors to discredit you. This mobbing devolves into DARVO.
I'm exploring AI within the context of being a professional (defined as person with specialized knowledge)
ChatGPT suggests you ask "What am I missing?" which is a suggestion to ask about counterfactuals!
Is the future of working with AI a study in can, can't and counterfactuals?
ChatGPT suggests you ask "What am I missing?" which is a suggestion to ask about counterfactuals!
Is the future of working with AI a study in can, can't and counterfactuals?
May 21, 2025 at 5:40 PM
I'm exploring AI within the context of being a professional (defined as person with specialized knowledge)
ChatGPT suggests you ask "What am I missing?" which is a suggestion to ask about counterfactuals!
Is the future of working with AI a study in can, can't and counterfactuals?
ChatGPT suggests you ask "What am I missing?" which is a suggestion to ask about counterfactuals!
Is the future of working with AI a study in can, can't and counterfactuals?
Here is the start of an longer conversation about Professionalism, Double-Loop Learning, and Chaos and Complexity.
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Your Career on AI
A ChatGPT chat to begin a longer conversation about Professionalism, Learning, and Complexity.
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May 18, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Here is the start of an longer conversation about Professionalism, Double-Loop Learning, and Chaos and Complexity.
open.substack.com/pub/gregcupa...
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Every business system has two social systems running in parallel: one for management and one for employees.
When things go wrong, they suffer from a Complex Maladaptive Social Systems.
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When things go wrong, they suffer from a Complex Maladaptive Social Systems.
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Complex Maladaptive Social Systems
This is a conversation about corporate culture. In any business system, you have a social system (corporate culture) running in parallel with the business system. O...
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April 27, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Every business system has two social systems running in parallel: one for management and one for employees.
When things go wrong, they suffer from a Complex Maladaptive Social Systems.
substack.com/@2ndlooplear...
When things go wrong, they suffer from a Complex Maladaptive Social Systems.
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My experience suggests that “mindful” is when you get your conscious mind to shut up long enough to listen to your unconscious mind and body. Mindfulness practice gets you to the state of mind where your body, conscious and unconscious mind play nice together.
#MindfulnessIRL #Mindfulness
#MindfulnessIRL #Mindfulness
April 14, 2025 at 9:11 PM
My experience suggests that “mindful” is when you get your conscious mind to shut up long enough to listen to your unconscious mind and body. Mindfulness practice gets you to the state of mind where your body, conscious and unconscious mind play nice together.
#MindfulnessIRL #Mindfulness
#MindfulnessIRL #Mindfulness
Success for a task should be measured by setting the conditions for success of the next task. If the next task can’t be completed successfully, why are you working on it?
#CareerDevelopment #careeradvice
#CareerDevelopment #careeradvice
April 12, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Success for a task should be measured by setting the conditions for success of the next task. If the next task can’t be completed successfully, why are you working on it?
#CareerDevelopment #careeradvice
#CareerDevelopment #careeradvice
April 12, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Tricks for getting to sleep:
Try to hear a distant sound. What is the most distant dog barking that you can hear? What about the most distant traffic noise you can hear? Do you hear that hoot owl? What about Santa's sleigh bells?
Try to hear a distant sound. What is the most distant dog barking that you can hear? What about the most distant traffic noise you can hear? Do you hear that hoot owl? What about Santa's sleigh bells?
April 10, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Tricks for getting to sleep:
Try to hear a distant sound. What is the most distant dog barking that you can hear? What about the most distant traffic noise you can hear? Do you hear that hoot owl? What about Santa's sleigh bells?
Try to hear a distant sound. What is the most distant dog barking that you can hear? What about the most distant traffic noise you can hear? Do you hear that hoot owl? What about Santa's sleigh bells?
Mindfulness plays with the concepts of Attention, Focus, and Cognition. Your body provides a fire-hose of sensations. Attention filters stuff out. Focus picks what you think about.
Mindfulness is about learning to sit back and enjoy the fire-hose fountain show.
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Mindfulness is about learning to sit back and enjoy the fire-hose fountain show.
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April 9, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Mindfulness plays with the concepts of Attention, Focus, and Cognition. Your body provides a fire-hose of sensations. Attention filters stuff out. Focus picks what you think about.
Mindfulness is about learning to sit back and enjoy the fire-hose fountain show.
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Mindfulness is about learning to sit back and enjoy the fire-hose fountain show.
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Allow yourself to not know something, but go find the answer. Pick a plausible answer if you need to cling on to something, but don't get comfortable.
Your mind will anxiously search for the answer like duck tape on a fuzzball.
#ProfessionalDevelopment #LearningJourney #SkillsDevelopment
Your mind will anxiously search for the answer like duck tape on a fuzzball.
#ProfessionalDevelopment #LearningJourney #SkillsDevelopment
March 31, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Allow yourself to not know something, but go find the answer. Pick a plausible answer if you need to cling on to something, but don't get comfortable.
Your mind will anxiously search for the answer like duck tape on a fuzzball.
#ProfessionalDevelopment #LearningJourney #SkillsDevelopment
Your mind will anxiously search for the answer like duck tape on a fuzzball.
#ProfessionalDevelopment #LearningJourney #SkillsDevelopment
Tree of Knowledge is a great metaphor for acquiring knowledge. Understanding the difference between college and career is critical to success.
#CollegeDegree #CollegeBound #Pre-College #freshmen #collegeStudent #CollegeStudentTipWeek #HowToCollege #collegelife
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#CollegeDegree #CollegeBound #Pre-College #freshmen #collegeStudent #CollegeStudentTipWeek #HowToCollege #collegelife
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Exploring the Tree of knowledge: College vs. Career
Exploring the Tree of knowledge: College vs. Career
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March 22, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Tree of Knowledge is a great metaphor for acquiring knowledge. Understanding the difference between college and career is critical to success.
#CollegeDegree #CollegeBound #Pre-College #freshmen #collegeStudent #CollegeStudentTipWeek #HowToCollege #collegelife
medium.com/@agalcuse/ex...
#CollegeDegree #CollegeBound #Pre-College #freshmen #collegeStudent #CollegeStudentTipWeek #HowToCollege #collegelife
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