This week, my mentor Stanford professor B.J. Fogg, Ph.D. asked his social media following who they'd rather work with?

  • Great teammates, so-so project
  • Great project, so-so teammates

If you said you'd work with great teammates anyday, you voted with 84% of respondents!

So I'll go there...

I have several so-so projects, but I'm a great teammate.

And I bet you would be, too, if you met the minimum requirements of reading this far!

The projects include:

  • Everything going on at the patriarchy-unlearning Quill Nook Farm here in southern Vermont, which is already a lot and it could be even more if you would come over and help. ;-)
  • The new Roberts' Green Letter on substack, which speaks for itself (in fact its indepedendent and enjoyable voice is what it's known for, if it's known at all).
  • Other super-secret stuff that might have fit in the other two bullets, but I felt like three looked better. In this bullet falls everything from hanging out and making silly videos, to redeveloping real estate, to a little bit thing we call Heroic.

As you can see, they're only so-so in the "So what are your openings and so what do you pay?" sense of the word.

We're growing our team here and since I'm retired from professional work and do what I want, we're going to make this fun. My most productive, respectful, collaborations right now are coming from this three-step process:

  1. Finding people I want to work with, and the feeling is mutual.
  2. Finding a way to work with them, and the right time/opportunity.
  3. Doing something together and seeing if we want to do it again tomorrow!

This process begins by nothing more than reaching out to me at one of the links above, or tristan@thisspotonearth.com.

Find what in your body is saying "yes" to this, and put it in the email. Brief is best—we'll go from there!

You have questions... Positions available? Skills? Qualifications? Benefits? Location?

There's a grade-school book series called "Encyclopedia Brown" that was popular in the 1980s. It's about a kid solving mysteries. Leroy Brown's slogan was "25 cents per day plus expenses: No case too small."

I'm not bringing it up because I read the series. I was reading "The Private Worlds of Julia Redfern." The writing in Encyclopedia Brown felt condescending to readers, and that last part of Brown's slogan always annoyed me—"no case too small." The kid had big ambitions and solved big cases in the books! It made no sense.

But it just clicked for me this morning. Each book in the series begins with something small, just one question, and builds from there.

And isn't that how life always works?

The biggest things in my life have come from small intuitions that I listened to. We have all kinds of opportunities for all kinds of people here. The only prerequisite to start a conversation is some intuition that there's something you want to do with us. Something that will use all the LEED expertise you have, and yet challenge you to grow in still more ways that you knew you had in you but didn't find the right niche for.

Consider this a chance to write your own job description. If you read this far, you know how many bullet points to use. ;-)