2021. Rebooting the Artisans

Most of the time my Mac operates flawlessy, although every now and again it bumps into something, and I have to try variously reloading the offending app, clear the cache, and a few other things I've got used to (but don't really understand) over the years.

Sometimes though, that doesn't work either and I have to do a hard reset. Easy enough to do, just have to log back into programmes etc. Irritating, but no real hassle.

A conversation with Steve Done this morning set me to wondering how we do that as individuals. In many ways, we are similar. We have become used to ways of operating, and conducting our work, and often our lives along familiar patterns. Like my Mac, for the most part it works well, and we don't really have to examine what we're doing. Life just trundles along. Until it doesn't.

Sometimes, we get the equivalent of that little spinning wheel in our lives and no matter how much we try to restart the offending part of it, it doesn't quite work. Something in our basic operat…