The notes vanished. The path got clearer. The setback is the setup.
Hi friends,
I lost my notes.
All of them. Every electronic note I had built studying the CLCPA, the Scoping Plan, and the broader climate-learning tips I had been collecting along the way — gone in a single sweep. Months of careful work. In another season of my life, this is the kind of loss that would have stopped me cold.
This time I am telling you something different. This may be one of the best things that has happened to me on this whole study journey.
Why a loss can be a gift
Here is the part that matters. I still have my index cards — the hard-copy notes — and those survived. So the loss is not total. What is gone is the polished digital version, the version I would have quietly kept to myself.
And because it is gone, I now have a job to do that I might never have given myself the discipline to do otherwise: review every page of material, with a fine-toothed comb, from the beginning. And this time, I am not keeping the notes to myself. I am sharing them.
What is coming — Day 1, Day 2, and beyond
From here on, my study notes will be posted as a public series — Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, and onward — so anyone who wants to follow along, study with me, or aspires to become a Climate Policy Analyst can learn alongside me.
A few things to know about the rhythm:
- The “days” are pacing markers, not calendar days. Some posts will land close together. Others may be a week apart.
- I framed the original program as a 15-day intensive, but these posts will continue well past that horizon. The CLCPA and the Scoping Plan are the starting point. They are not the destination.
- I have already published the longer, more detailed announcement of this idea over at cCcmty.com. That post is written for the wider community and for anyone preparing for similar civic and professional work. This one, here on tito235.com, is the personal version — me telling you, the people who follow me here, what I am doing and why.
The thirst behind the work
I have a thirst for this learning that I cannot fully explain.
Even if I do not become a Climate Policy Analyst at the state level, I will become a Climate Change Professional Officer focused on the part of this work that I think gets too little attention: people’s suffering, and what we can actually do to ease it with new, sometimes out-of-the-box ideas.
When I finish learning what I need to learn about the CLCPA and the Scoping Plan, I will move on to other climate policies, other statutes, other frameworks. This is going to be an ongoing track of climate learning, and the public is invited to walk it with me. That invitation does not expire.
Where this is going — Climate Tribe Social
And when I open Climate Tribe Social, most of the spaces inside it will be dedicated to advancing exactly this work — new ideas, new innovations, new partnerships, aligned with the capabilities we are all growing into. We are building something that does not exist yet. We need each other to build it.
The bigger point
That is really the bigger point I wanted to land with you today.
Sometimes what looks like a terrible event is a doorway. The notes vanished. The path got clearer. The work that would have stayed private is now a contribution. The setback is the setup.
If something in your own life has just collapsed — a project, a system, a plan, a folder you swore was backed up — I want to leave you with the question I asked myself this week: What is this freeing me to do that I would not have done otherwise?
I will see you back here soon with Day 1.
We are building something that does not exist yet. We need each other to build it.
— Tito
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