CADENCE
ABOUT
Loss of a possible future
The loss is never loss if one drives the situation into another useful experience. When we invest effort exploring a direction that doesn't pan out, we still gain from the pursuit. The key is recognizing when to shift the effort to a parallel thread that feels more aligned.
From the past to the future through the present
The present moment is the opportunity to steer the story into the desired future. It is also worth recognizing the traces of the current circumstances in the past.
Proceed without doubt
We often hear about long-term action, and it feels like the right thing to do. The people talking about it are generally smart, and it's doubtful they are wrong. So it makes total sense to think long term, to plan, and to act deliberately and consistently across long stretches of time, ideally decades.
Dynamic chaos
At one point when I was living in New York and life was settling down into a very predictable routine, I started to yearn for adventure and for a lifestyle where traveling was built into the dynamic of life itself. That seemed exciting, moving between several worlds simultaneously, experiencing life with built-in unpredictability.
Intersecting threads
Sometimes I wish I could see all those threads clearly. The time I’ve spent thinking, working, pondering about ideas. To see how they overlap and return. Cadence started partly from that wish. To be able to trace things, not just the big moments but the small ones that don’t seem important at the time.
Intuitive Opportunity
Most of these thoughts are raw and intuitive, based on experience and the ongoing process of building. We're in the middle of accumulating this knowledge as we haven't yet created a sustainable company, but we feel like we're on the way. Currently we're living the reality of work that we wish to share with many people, as there's an opportunity in the present moment to build a future where work provides security, independence, and meaning.
Finding Cadence
The world today is constantly remaking itself, and many of us live in a state where nothing feels stable for long. Last October, collectively we — Andrea, Bruno, and Oleg — found ourselves in that exact place: the overwhelming space between what had ended and what had not yet begun.
The future of work is personal
When we think about the future of work, the subjects of time and agency are central to the conversation. In our experience, workplaces in general do not take into consideration the personal natural rhythms of energy, focus, and creativity that vary between individuals and across days.
Agency through action in time
Often it feels we need something called agency to make good use of this historical moment with all of the advanced tools and opportunities. Agency is complex, not something one can just have. It seems to grow through small, consistent actions, both in the realm of the individual and the realm of the collective. Over the last year at Cadence, we've been exploring what agency means for each person and for our team as a whole.
Why the week matters?
The seven-day week is so embedded in human civilization that we rarely pause to question it. On the closer look it becomes indisputable this ancient unit of time has shaped how humanity organizes itself more profoundly than any other temporal measure. Throughout human history, different cultures have grappled with time's nature.