The Meaning Map
An idea I can't let go of, and a video for your viewing pleasure.
Welcome to As It Turns Out, occasional field notes on the constant experiments I’m running in the background. Sometimes I move too fast and break things I shouldn’t, and sometimes I discover a really cool idea that’s worth sharing. If it don’t break, I’ll try not to fix it?
If you’ve been here long enough, you may remember the Meaning Map.1 It’s a visual I’ve been playing around with for a couple of years, a bunch of ideas that haven’t quite solidified into something I could point at and go, ta-da. 👋
Writing The Only Thing, my essay on discernment and befriending, changed that a little. The map kept coming back to mind. The ideas in that essay—noticing, naming, befriending where you are—seem to ask for some kind of practical exploration, somewhere to land. I think the Meaning Map might be that place.
So I made a video! It’s an introduction more than an explanation—I’m still figuring out what this is and what it wants to be. But I wanted to get it out there and see how it lands with you.
Where are you on the map right now? I’d love to know.
Let’s be hopeful, creative, and wise—together.
Shalom,
