We Are Losers
In sum, if you have a goal of creating high-performing teams, I want to suggest to you that even if you win, you lose.
Jason Jaggard • Beyond High Performance: What Great Coaches Know About How the Best Get Better
But for those who seemed to be emerging from the wreckage victorious—namely, those of us who had secured a place in an industry that had steamrolled its way to relevance—the meritocracy narrative was a cover for lack of structural analysis.
Anna Wiener • Uncanny Valley: A Memoir
worry that those same gut-check crisis moments might just as easily kick folks into an even darker me-mine, go-it-alone, might-makes-right attitude.
Andrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
And here’s the hard part. You can’t just decide fuck individualism, I’m blowing it up . You have to replace it with a better, more equitable story of who we are as a country and how we organize our society. Which, for a lot of people, would mean giving up a modicum of power. Liberal white people can loathe the effects of individualism and still ben... See more
The Dark Heart of Individualism
Going home seems to be a way to abandon victories when they’re still delicate, still in need of protection and encouragement. Human babies are helpless at birth, and so perhaps are victories before they’ve been consolidated into the culture’s sense of how things should be. I wonder sometimes what would happen if victory was imagined not just as the
... See moreRebecca Solnit • Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
“They fight as though they are insurgents while they operate as though they are kings,” writes Danah Boyd, a technology scholar. She came of age among hackers and renegades and then grew frustrated with their failure to accept victory. They now owned the tools of modern power. But the group’s self-image as “outsiders,” a hangover from the sector’s
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