Evan B. Carr | Creator. Scholar. Catalyst. Advisor. Practicing regenerative design and sensemaking.

Hello!

I am Evan...

… and I’m Exploring, Creating, Catalyzing, and Wording.

Endeavors

Practicing

I am practicing Technology-as-my-Service where technology is defined as the cultivation of wisdom, modalities, and practices applied to being, feeling, thinking, and doing.

Coaching

I help clients to new perspectives that catalyze the growth and breakthroughs they are capable of. No tricks or magic involved. Just the support needed to unleash the healing and greatness already within.

Speaking Word

As a Conscious Hip Hop Artist, NoSys, and a Speaking Word Artist, I weave verbal tapestries healing, inspiring, and provoking listeners.

My Mission

To be in service by harmonizing, regenerating, and re-membering essence.

My Method

FOLLOW PASSION, NOT PAYCHECKS

ALIGN TO HIGHER PRINCIPLES

ASK THE BEST QUESTIONS

LIVE FROM THE HEART

BE USEFUL

BE FULLY PRESENT

THINK WITH SYSTEMS

EMBRACE THE FULL SPECTRUM

MOVE TOWARDS RESISTANCE & FEAR

DON’T TAKE MYSELF TOO SERIOUSLY, LAUGH MORE

My Musings

I share integrations and reflections on Sense-making, Complexity, Regenerative Development, Masculinity, Self Development, Business, and any topic that beckons curiosity to explore it.

The Conversation We’re Not Having About the Pandemic

April 28, 2021

I hate to be the bearer of bad news but I think we’ve been deluding ourselves. For the past months, perhaps since shortly after we

Transition: Where is the Puck Going?

April 9, 2021

I have not written much about my current transition as I’ve been deeply engaged with ensuring it’s successful. In shamanism we call this a bid

A Butterly Flaps Its Wings | Interconnectedness & Complex Systems

April 2, 2021

First published Nov 26. Slightly edited April 2. Don’t get a liberal arts degree they say. It’s not useful in today’s modern economy. Specialize in

57 Days? What Are You Up To, Evan?!

March 21, 2021

It’s been an astounding 57 days since I’ve last posted here. Is that a problem? Perhaps for my commitment to write frequently this year. Alas!

A Week’s Links January 24

January 24, 2021

What’s blowing my hair back? See below. Internal Family Systems came on my radar when Paula recommended it to me. Tim Ferris has a good

The Case for Rituals in the Workplace

January 19, 2021

1 Wired U.S. public places and office spaces are becoming more secular each year as adherents to the Establishment Clause seek to reduce the exposure

Homo Sapiens Regenerata

January 15, 2021

Each holiday season I find myself indulging in a guilty pleasure: playing my old favorite computer games. Between Shogun: Total War, The Sims, Starcraft, and

Salience and Weighting

January 12, 2021

How do you know what to look and listen for when assessing a situation or building a perspective? At every waking moment, you are engaged

The Case for Space Settlement

January 6, 2021

1 A few days ago I wrote why I am against space colonization. In an effort to build a healthy understanding of the issue in

Hill Climber or Valley Crosser: Is Your Hill Worth Dying On?

January 5, 2021

Here’s an overused truism: life is a journey. In longer form: life is about the journey, not the destination. These linguistic phrases are repeated often

How to Make a Light Pole Interesting

January 2, 2021

Engage visual observation. Rust and patina suggest an age as old as WWI. Access knowledge of history. The McPherson Farm became the Westside neighborhood around

Why I’m Against Space Colonization

January 1, 2021

2021 is going to be a big year for space, says the Washington Post in a recent article forecasting the exploits of our favorite billionaires

I Don’t Want To (and what I do)

December 23, 2020

I don’t want to scale a company and 10x revenue I don’t want to optimize the conversion funnel or split test ad copy or design

How To Improve the Information Commons

December 18, 2020

Today’s information landscape is riddled with misinformation, sensational headlines, overt and covert agendas, and “fake news”. The “commons” is a concept that refers to the

Five Questions Worth Asking

December 9, 2020

What if the question I’m asking myself right now is the biggest determinant of my future? What if by asking that question I embarked on

My Myth

I’ve always been extremely curious. As a young child I read stacks of books as high as my bed and dreamt of the world that could be. I had an innate knowing that all things are connected and sought to understand that which I did not. I’ve long pondered our natural and human systems and felt the urge to improve them.

While living in Japan as a pre-teen I met the Dalai Lama, a transcendent experience that affirmed my affinity for the great inner work. While feeling the intense pull towards the spiritual depths I swallowed the cultural lure of ‘success’ and excelled as a scholar completing undergraduate and graduate degrees. My interdisciplinary studies focused on finding the patterns of connectedness across business, political science, and public policy.

Following the scripted post-college path I entered the business world as an entrepreneur followed by working at small, private-equity owned, and public companies. I had started in the profession of sales at the age of 15 which evolved into my becoming a sales & marketing leader.

Soon I found myself the Director of Business Development for a world-class real estate software-as-a-service provider, an enviable position with an amazing team at a superb company. Along the journey I had been investing substantially in personal development, learning from excellent mentors, and cultivating the ability to strategize, coach, and execute. It was all great yet I knew there was more begging to be explored.

With multiple promotions and increases in annual earnings came the continual realization of what I knew as a child, that the quest for status and money did not satisfy the urge to fully know myself and be of greater service.

Knowing that my passions lie in a path oriented towards service to others, I continue to explore how my life’s work emerges.

This work is now emerging through my roles as a Creator, Scholar, Healer, Consultant, and Speaking Word Artist fueled by everything I’ve learned along the way.

"A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, and leaves others to determine whether he is working or playing. To himself, he always appears to be doing both."

"Anybody can become angry, that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way, that is not within everybody's power, that is not easy."

What's with all of the verbs?

In many indigenous languages the concept of tense (past, present, and future) does not exist. The sky is skying and the grass is grassing. This language encodes the wisdom of polychronic time which is the insight that literally everything is happening now, including our awareness. We are only in the present. The actions, habits, and skills we embody in the present moment are literally who we are. You'll notice many verbs throughout my websites, writings, and communications which is the acknowledgement of this constant becoming.

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”

"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."

"The future is already here it's just unevenly distributed."

"The test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should...be able to see that things are hopeless yet be determined to make them otherwise."