Welcome to the third newsletter from fireside.rs, ‘unlocking creative productivity by gathering humans effectively.’
There’s an uncomfortable tension in the world—scarcity blankets simple interactions as well as bold intentions.
The layers of the poly/meta-crisis impede delighting in the exploration of the possible. Criticism and negative opinion is rife, fueling the default divisiveness in so many aspects of work, play, discourse, the commons, the internal etc.
The hardest thing to do is to aspire in these conditions. And to remember, it’s just a ride:
I invite you to unfold into the creative abundance of your abilities and keep reaching beyond your grasp.
Gather with others who are endeavoring.
Champion those who are doing.
Provide support to those who are trying.
Invite hope into your being.
Embrace the constraints which liberate your imagination.
And remember to move slow and fix things!
DK
fireside.rs Founder and Creative Gatherer
LISTEN TO THE PODCAST
Where we feature, celebrate and learn from those who craft spaces for humans to actively belong and be, introducing:
Boyuan Gao, Cofounder, Joyous Rebellion
SHOW NOTES & PULL QUOTES
- Boyuan’s Linkedin
- Joyous Rebellion
- We’re a Severely Under-Grieved Culture + Chelsea Granger’s book / Katrina’s children’s book about grief
1.26: “…people really yearn for, desire and i think are maybe even desperate for, is a reprieve, and so that’s really what our experiences are designed to do, is to provide the most high impact leaders in our world today, a place to actually pause.”
9.12: “It’s like, holy crap, like so much of these things that we put on the veneer of our professional identities, the things that we’re performing, right? All of these things just fundamentally fall away and people can hear themselves again for even just a moment. And that is not a small thing.”
23.25: “Like that’s what we get to see when we do these experiences with people, because they just cut through the surface so, so quickly and they get to a place that they otherwise would never get to.”
29.04: “That’s one of my markers of success for a Joyous Rebellion is that it doesn’t matter who is in the room, what their titles are. Every single time we’ve had people just boisterously belly laughing and then crying together. And those two things, if you have both of those things, I’m like, this was a freaking success.”
44.11: “…what people grieve a lot these days is having novel experiences, that is what really produces memories for us, right? And gives our lives meaning.”
Podcast music attribution: All I Did Was Wait For You: The Upbeat and Positive Track for Podcast or YouTube by kjartan_abel — https://freesound.org/s/543781/ — License: Attribution 4.0
Some creativity, productivity and gathering related content for the brain / heart:
“The problem was never how many things you own. The problem is that owning means something it never used to. Everything you buy is the beginning of a relationship you’ll be maintaining until one of you dies or gets discontinued.”
The Last Quiet Thing | Terry Godier
“The Beatles wrote 227 songs, but only 34 hit the Top 10. Do you think they would put out a song that they didn’t believe could be a hit? Mozart wrote over 600 songs, but only about 50 of them are widely played. Do you think he purposefully wrote duds? Of course not. Both the Beatles and Mozart made work that interested them, and occasionally those works resonated with other people.”
How to Make a Living as an Artist (and a creative)
Check out a wonderful array of visual frameworks – A language of patterns from the mind / pen of Dave Gray.
Check out the Trustbuilding Awards from IofC International, aiming “to recognize, encourage and raise the profile of the outstanding individuals/ organizations, promote youth efforts in building trust and thus raise the standards of ‘trustbuilders’ around the world”—deadline 12 April 2026.
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