Personal Geometry

I've been thinking about the idea of "personal geometries" - what our networks would look like if we were able to draw them.

Every day, we find ourselves in a network of ideas, people, organisations, worries, opportunities. Everything we spend time thinking about is a relationship, and when our relationships determine everything we do, geometry matters.

The elegance of our relationship geometry - whether it is smooth and elegant, like a Fibonacci curve, or messy and disjointed- results from how aware we are of it. Elegant geometry results from the alignment of all our faculties - the intellectual, intuitive, emotional and bodily senses aligned and in sync with the direction we want our lives to take. When things feel uncomfortable, our geometry is probably out of order - and if we could somehow map it, it would probably not be pretty.

We cannot design our geometry, but we can pay attention to it. We know where those parts of what we do no longer fit. The pandemic has knocked many pattern…