Profesh
My website is a shifting house next to a river of knowledge. What could yours be?
Laurel Schwulstthecreativeindependent.com
Community Weaving
docs.google.comSince the beginning of time, the answer to “What do you do?” could be answered with one word.
Finance. Sales. Education.
But today, most jobs exist in liminal spaces: Kind of like this but also not quite that.
It may have been fair to think that any explanation longer than a one-word, universally understood, job title was just an attempt to l
... See moreAlex Tan • #059 Environment Design
You’d be wise to spend only about $10 of your budget on medical care and spend more on improving social and environmental factors such as substandard housing, job stress, poverty, discrimination, and dangerous neighborhoods — what experts often call the “social determinants of health.” When we think about what really shapes our health, medical care
... See moreRishi Manchanda • The Upstream Doctors: Medical Innovators Track Sickness to Its Source (Kindle Single) (TED Books)
Most doctors—most humans, really—have unwittingly inherited a colonial worldview that emphasizes individual health, disconnecting illness from its social and historical contexts and obscuring our place in the web of life that makes us who we are.
Raj Patel • Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice
I really hate the term content creator. It’s such a corporate way of describing artists, writers, intellectuals, and other creatives who ultimately just want to create work they’re proud of.
Part of the problem is that the big social networks are not content platforms supported by advertising. They are better understood as advertising platforms supp... See more
Part of the problem is that the big social networks are not content platforms supported by advertising. They are better understood as advertising platforms supp... See more
Sari Azout • Things I'm Thinking About
How we career
Switching lanes to build a new career is daunting. The options an individual has are often costly or hard to find. They can:
Switching lanes to build a new career is daunting. The options an individual has are often costly or hard to find. They can:
- go back to school to “continue their education” (as if it had been halted!)
- find an organization that will pay them to learn and explore a new role
- start their own organization that provides a home for a nascent
Welcome to the Careering Fairgrounds
The more my career takes me in the direction of creative projects that require alone time, the more I realize being productive has very little to do with high-stakes meetings, rushing from point A to point B, or can’t catch a breath to-do lists that I will probably half-ass due to exhaustion.
Real power comes from slowing down. Focus is sacred.
I wo... See more
Real power comes from slowing down. Focus is sacred.
I wo... See more