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The Aperture Field Notes
by Kari LaMotte
Field notes on clarity, leadership, and systems in transition. About learning to see clearly, think structurally, and navigate complexity with coherence. notes.theaperturefield.com
Episodes
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The Water Cycle of Knowledge
On a rainy fall morning, I found myself watching the water cycle unfold outside my window: ocean becoming cloud, cloud becoming rain, rain feeding forests, reservoirs, bodies and rivers before eventually finding its way back to the sea. And a thought occurred to me: The water belongs nowhere and...
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Conversations with Mica: AI, Energy, and Who Benefits from Progress
If technology makes essential services cheaper to provide, who gets the gains and who pays while we wait? In this episode of *Conversations with Mica*, Kari LaMotte and Mica, an AI conversational partner, explore how improvements in what we can produce become improvements in how we live. Energy...
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Conversations with Mica: Strong Spine, Open Heart
How do we build a more regenerative, sustainable future when the hardest challenge is not the technology, but how we talk, listen, and decide together? In this conversation, we explore the posture needed for difficult conversations about collective change. From infrastructure and co-design to...
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Conversations with Mica: Plants, Progress, and the Work of Integration
What can plants teach us about progress? In this first Conversations with Mica, Kari LaMotte thinks alongside Mica, an AI conversational partner, about seeds, stems, leaves, and the quieter work that allows a living system to renew itself. Beginning with the seasonal life of plants, Kari and Mica...
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Perpetual Visitors
In this piece, I begin with what initially seemed like an obvious principle: recognizing the Indigenous nation whose territory it is as the host nation and genuine co-founder of any new community. But an uncomfortable question emerged: If one people remains the host forever, does everyone else...
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When the Work Doesn't Fit Inside Your Head
In this episode, I reflect on artificial intelligence as part of a much larger pattern of technological change. New technologies have always arrived with a mixture of possibility and fear. Railways, electric light, telephones, automobiles, television, computers, and the internet all disrupted the...
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From Purpose to Pattern
What if purpose is not something we find, but something that becomes available when our lives align with who we are? In this essay, I explore the difference between purpose as self-sacrifice and purpose as coherent participation. For a long time, I confused being useful with reducing my own…
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The Shape of Community
What makes a neighbourhood? Through reflections on three very different communities (a prairie farming town, Vancouver’s Commercial Drive, and life in a dense urban neighbourhood) I explore how community changes as the places we live change. As our cities evolve, so do the ways we connect…
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Learning that other people are real..
I recently found myself reflecting on one of my earliest attempts at empathy. As a child, I once gave my younger sister a birthday gift that consisted of the contents of my bedside drawer: a worn charm necklace, a collection of charms, and some fake money. I was thrilled with my own…
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Systems move through rhythms
Systems move through rhythms. Growth, consolidation, release, renewal. Yet culturally, we often treat any pause, slowdown, or restructuring as failure rather than recognizing it as part of how living systems evolve. In this reflection, I explore the cyclical nature of progress, from the seasons...
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We’ve Been Here Before
I have been spending serious time lately considering the role of empathy and emotional intelligence in the world today. Like many, I find myself astonished by what I’m seeing across the world - acts that seem to disregard the very principles we have spent centuries developing as a human species.…
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It’s often not the loud changes that matter most.
This is a short audio reflection drawn from a recent piece exploring a subtle shift in how we relate to inclusion, systems, and change. After spending time with a group of senior women leaders and reading a piece by Katrina C. Foster, I found myself sitting with a different kind of question.. not...
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The Villainous Hero - Spoken Reading
This is the audio version of the essay: The Villainous Hero You can read the written version here: https://notes.theaperturefield.com/p/the-villainous-hero The Aperture Field Notes are reflections on clarity, leadership, and systems in transition, exploring how people and organizations navigate...
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The Aperture Field Note: Veiled Communication
This is the audio version of the essay: The Cost of Veiled Communication You can read the written version here: https://notes.theaperturefield.com/p/the-cost-of-veiled-communication The Aperture Field Notes are reflections on clarity, leadership, and systems in transition; exploring how people…
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The Aperture Field Notes (Welcome)
Welcome to The Aperture Field Notes - audio essays and reflections on clarity, leadership, and systems in transition. These recordings are the audio versions of written field notes published at: https://notes.theaperturefield.com The Aperture Field is a strategy and systems advisory practice...
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Joy Is Welcome. But So Is Everything Else.
In this episode, Kari explores the quiet pressure that can emerge when joy becomes a measure of success, alignment, purpose, or awakening. Joy is beautiful. Joy is welcome. But when it becomes the emotional state we are expected to maintain, life can start to narrow around a subtle form of...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Field notes on clarity, leadership, and systems in transition. About learning to see clearly, think structurally, and navigate complexity with coherence.
notes.theaperturefield.com
HOSTED BY
Kari LaMotte
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Field notes on clarity, leadership, and systems in transition. About learning to see clearly, think structurally, and navigate complexity with coherence. notes.theaperturefield.com
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The Aperture Field Notes is created and hosted by Kari LaMotte.
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