Thank you Harold. Many of the insights you your share inform my work, but this post directly speaks to two issues I'm working through right now.

In Knowledge Work Artisans, we are deliberated prompting awareness and isolating/evaluating alternatives as a functional community of practice. Additionally, we intend to prompt informed action by implementing an assigned peer and mentor "accountability pairing. After reading what you've shared here, I now feel I was concentrating a bit too much on the notion of 'accountability, at the expense of stressing 'action' in relation to awareness and alternatives. This post gives me better perspective regarding what the emphasis should be and how to better position the paired teaming function.

The second insight is in regard to my own narrative "beefs" (or better labeled cynical sarcasms). In America right now, there is a tension over our political affairs. And to the degree I make a contribution (a bad one), I'm afraid I've completely shut down all of my openness/willingness to actively listen - and have become all about the 'beef.' Perhaps I would say, to make a very weak defense for myself, there comes a dangerous threshold within a discourse when - any/all give and take learning is just not in the cards. (I feel it's become pretty dire down here). So, I appreciate you making me think/ giving me pause, to question myself about being all too consumed, with the - beef (my closed/reactionary beef).