Slingshot Designs Presents
Steel Toes & Plaid
Field notes on systems, self-leadership, preparation, observation, community, and the work of deciding what happens next.
Fields to Explore
- Cardinal Chronicles (28)
- Family & Community (5)
- Gardening (4)
- Healing Patterns (7)
- Health and Wellness (7)
- Leadership (21)
- Steel Toes and Plaid (5)
- Systems Thinking (12)
- The Cardinal Rule (6)
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The Difference Between Preparation and Prediction
Most people spend their lives trying to predict the future. The people who navigate uncertainty learn something far more useful. I keep a Magic 8 Ball in my…
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Pulling Weeds and Untangling Traffic Jams
Gardening is a meditative process that reveals intricate root systems, much like solving complex puzzle games.
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Blind Writing
What happens when you refuse to stop looking for the root cause. A decade-long search for answers, a vestibular migraine diagnosis, and the unexpected lessons that came from…
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Steel Toes & Plaid: The Harvest Was Successful. The Tea Was Awful.
A simple clover tea experiment led to an unexpected lesson about curiosity, potential, and why the most valuable outcomes are not always the ones we planned for.
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Steel Toes & Plaid: Visibility
Most organizations don’t have a talent shortage. They have a visibility problem. When leaders stop seeing the people closest to the work, ideas stop moving, trust erodes, and…
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Steel Toes & Plaid: The Moment the Conversation Changed
A door-to-door salesperson ignored the signs and knocked anyway. The interesting part wasn’t what he said. It was what changed. A reflection on modern sales, boundaries, brand promises,…
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