as leader your job is to cast clear vision, empower, equip, take blows for the team, give them the honor of honest feedback.
how lucky are you to have been entrusted with this mission and these unique creative people! Every interaction is an opportunity to affirm their dignity and inherent value as co-equals in the human race.
genuinely love the people you are serving as leader. It starts with you and will echo outward.
my friend was visiting and asked me to help her with the merch booth she was working. and it brought me so much joy.
in these current horrors, help your friends.
you know what other things bring joy to my life? going grocery shopping with my friends. driving people to the airport. reading books beside each other in coffee shops. helping someone find an obscure pepper paste in town. selling shirts at a country show. trying to find an obscure theory book together for book club. sitting on someone's kitchen floor while they do dishes.
you can't complain about the lack of community you experience without being apart of your immediate community, the small things happen to be the most fun and rewarding things to be a part of. support your loved ones.
this is worthy of celebration: the lack of video—autoplay video, noisy inane video, panicky video, algorithmic, dumb video, rabbit hole video, any video—on pi.fyi is a good thing