In the real world, whether you are helming a sixty-foot racing yacht through a dark night or trying to guide your own life through a major transition, navigation is never an isolated, solo act. Instead as any cognitive act it is based on a network which transforms it in situated and distributed cognition.
Linearity always ends somewhere and, in many cases, it ends with a crash.
We live in an era obsessed with planning, forecasting, and predictability. From an early age, we are sold a simple, linear promise: stay on the laid-out track, check the boxes, and collect the conceptual models that dictate how a life is supposed to function. We treat our major life choices as simple calculations, constantly pressed by an internal clock to predict our own security.
But real life cannot be fully forecasted. When our predictions fail, we find ourselves standing at the edge of what philosopher Laurie Ann Paul defines as a transformative experience, a profound crossroads where prior data or rational calculation can never reveal who we will become on the other side of a decision. Whether you are choosing a radical leap into the unknown or navigating an unchosen tragedy that has violently upended your horizon, the old charts are instantly rendered useless.
A wolf baring its teeth, a gorilla pounding its chest, or a bird puffing its feathers are all highly sophisticated negotiation tactics. They are biological posturing designed to establish boundaries, secure resources, and protect offspring before physical confrontation. In a sense, aggression is transactional: A risky, expensive strategy to gain a survival advantage. In humans, this…
There is no need to be ashamed of feeling angry, sad or lost because we failed.
In the Kairos Readings I offer brief moments of writing, reflecting frames that try to capture what pops up around me while my mind plays whack-a-mole with fragments of Truth.
The second Online Social Dreaming Matrix takes place on April 19th. People from previous gathering attend again joined by five new entries. A total of 11 people attend the matrix. The opening follow the lines of the previous meeting and we jump right into a house on the beach. A lawn with no grass activates…
The social dreaming matrix is a structured opportunity to share dreams with others. It shares the interest about dreams with psychoanalysis but it differs because it does not attempt any interpretation and it has no therapeutic finality.
The Cruising Blues and Their Cure: Pirsig’s Metaphor for Life Navigation The Cruising Blues and Their Cure: Pirsig’s Metaphor for Life Navigation When Robert M. Pirsig passed away at age 88 in his home in Maine, he left behind a cultural legacy deeply tied to his brilliant, best-selling books. He became instantly famous with the…
Humans can’t survive for long in the ocean without the aid of technology. The development of technology is a key factor to enhance sailing performance but while very important, there are other factors that influence success in sailing. The extraordinary ability that humans possess in adapting to different environments and the mental capacity to withstand…
There are special people that redefine the concept of normality. Sometimes a lone individual takes on a challenge and defies conventions through a unique journey. In this case, it’s an entire family. The Coconuts are a sailing family of six, Jay, Natasha, Sol, Luna, Caribe e Artico, who sailed for six years in the South America,…
Cruising couples spend a great lot of time together, basically every minute of the day, working towards a common goal, sharing good and bad moments. There is a common saying that if you survive living on a boat as a couple than you can survive anything. There had been famous sailing couples, like Susan and…
Sailing towards distant horizons, visiting new countries following one’s own time is an increasing popular lifestyle, a dream at hand’s reach. The new wave of sailing bloggers (like myself) and Youtube Sailing Channel lure a wide audience into this narrative of self-realization and discovery that helps to spring up the belief that absolutely everyone can…
James Baldwin has become an established point of reference for small sailboat enthusiasts. His website atomvoyages is a wellspring of informations for people who are planning to start cruising affordably. He is author of two books about his voyages aboard Atom, a Pearson Triton built in 1963 that has been twice around the world. Most of…
