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The Practice of Noticing: What a Color Photo Trend Teaches Us About Mindfulness
Most of us move through the day on autopilot.
Email → meeting → meeting → lunch → more meetings.
But I recently noticed a fascinating trend on social media: people walking through neighborhoods searching for one specific color to photograph.
At first glance it looks like a creative photography challenge.
But it’s actually a powerful attention training exercise.
Michael Brooks
Mar 295 min read


Mindfulness at Work: Organizational Change Management Needs More Awareness, Not More Dashboards
We often talk about change as if there are two sides: those implementing it and those impacted by it. In reality, most of us move between both roles, sometimes within the same week. This post is for anyone navigating that space.
Michael Brooks
Feb 19 min read


A Reflection On 9/11: Messages in the Ashes
What follows is a personal account of my experience during 9/11. As a photography enthusiast, I always had a camera nearby and am grateful that I had the where-with-all to carry it with me everywhere I went that day and on the days that followed. In the days that followed, I posted these images on a makeshift website to share with my friends and family then took them down some time later. Not long ago, I came across them and thought it might be something to re-share with the
Michael Brooks
Mar 1, 20226 min read

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