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Care Doesn’t Scale
I think another driver of this sentiment and behavior is that chasing scale strips you of some humanity. It puts your head too high up in the clouds. It removes you from what happens in the real world with real people. Pursuing something that can’t scale does the exact opposite: it grounds you. It’s a comforting and healing next act.
Anu Atluru • Pursuits That Can’t Scale
I hunger so deeply for us to shift from a focus on control to a focus on care in this country. If only we could stop trying to convince one another about some ideological stance, and start looking at caregivers’ real lives and building systems, services, products and policies that actually make them better. Or just decent. Even that would be a step... See more
Courtney Martin • Building a culture of care in America
CARING IS KINDNESS; that is my mantra. In the fall of 2002, I got a call from my mother’s doctor telling me she’d been admitted to the hospital. She was ninety-one, and she’d been sick and unable to walk for years. Recently, she’d been suffering from urinary tract infections and needed antibiotics almost all the time.