Lived Quality

Waking Up on the Floor

Why you can't cheat the biological economy.

Feb 15 • Clayton Nyakana

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The Day I Zigzagged

When the “Will” says go, but the cells vote “No.”

Feb 8 • Clayton Nyakana

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The Man Who Stayed Dry in the Rain

How a wet shirt taught me the difference between driving a body and stewarding one.

Feb 1 • Clayton Nyakana

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January 2026

The Embodied Steward

A Theory of Nested Emergence and the Technologies of Self-Maintenance

Jan 26 • Clayton Nyakana

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July 2024

Working through Chaotic Surprise

Chaotic surprise. The sudden realisation that what you assumed to know is not "known" to you in the sense that you had believed. It comes with a sense…

Jul 31, 2024 • Clayton Nyakana

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March 2024

Embracing difference through reshaping our wisdom

In a recent Lived Quality Conversation, Dr. Faith Elizabeth Nanyonga shared an example of communication with her one-year-old daughter, who engages in…

Mar 19, 2024 • Clayton Nyakana

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Self-giving through holding space

When you have identified your legacy-oriented work and have been working on it for some time, you get to a point where you start to feel saturated. This…

Mar 5, 2024 • Clayton Nyakana

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February 2024

LQC E01: Oana Brown on Legacy oriented work

This is our very first episode of the Lived Quality Conversations.

Feb 29, 2024 • Lived Quality

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Legacy Oriented Work

When work evolves into something more than a task or a job and starts to transform one's way of life, it becomes oriented towards building a legacy.

Feb 29, 2024 • Clayton Nyakana

July 2023

The village of "me's": Reclaiming agency authentically

These preferences are "me's" that represent my defaults. They are like core "me's". They have been baked in by pivotal moments in my development right…

Jul 15, 2023 • Clayton Nyakana

June 2023

The Village of "me's": When the counterfeit "me's" take control

In the struggle to "fit in", I find that presenting myself in a way that is acceptable allows me to experience acceptance. Even if I am fully aware that…

Jun 2, 2023 • Clayton Nyakana

May 2023

The village of "me's": How to tend to the self and cultivate authenticity

The "Master Me" that I'm calling "I" reads the context and chooses a "me" to wear for that context. Think of a wardrobe, and you are selecting an outfit…

May 18, 2023 • Clayton Nyakana