Our startup team implemented a weekly 'mortality check' meeting where we reflect on whether we'd be proud of our work if this was our last project, but it's become this intense thing where people either get paralyzed by the weight of it or use it to push for unrealistic timelines, and I don't know how to recalibrate.
More people experience this than they realize.
Collective meditation on mortality is amplifying rather than clarifying the group's relationship with meaningful work.
“Where Are You with The Stoic meditation on death as time amplifier?”
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