Medium Short: Review Time With My Imaginary Boss

A performance appraisal on my last year’s work

A moment to reflect on the last year. What am I doing? How is working out? (A sketch from my notebook last week in conversation with some amazing women I am lucky to know.)

Welcome to the latest Medium Short. In this one I break the weekly pattern to look back on the year’s highlights and numbers. As ever, all my articles are freely available through this link.

A little over a year ago I started the full time adventure of having no idea where my next meal will come from while dreaming of Industrial Healing. I don’t have a boss but today I will pretend I do. In this week’s accountability Short, Imaginary Boss and I look back over the past year.

C’mon now. Say why you’re doing this now. It’s not random.

Right, right. I do so now because I’ve wrapped up the chapter of Creating Matereality and am about to embark on The Next Thing. The highlights of what’s come before will prime me for what’s ahead.

Right. So how’s it been going? What stands out most for you when you look back on the last year or so?

Matereality, prototyped…

In January 2022, I hatched an idea to put “reality” into mainstream ESG materiality, which led to Matereality. The idea is to use a company’s own public communications to illustrate how they are (or aren’t…) contributing to an economy in service of life.