systems
I study resilience as it relates to disaster response, and contemporary scholars are more or less in agreement that the concept of resilience is used as a way to place responsibility that belongs with the government onto individuals and communities that are hit the hardest by various extreme events (almost always low income communities of color). O... See more
Anne Helen Petersen • Friday Thread: Theories of Resilience
Lyndsey Medford added 2mo
Suppose a startup is testing a new customer acquisition strategy. Instead of launching a full-blown marketing campaign, it starts small, running a limited ad campaign with basic content to gauge audience engagement. As it iterates, it scales up what works and swiftly pivots away from what doesn’t. This approach allows it to quickly identify what wo... See more
The FLUX Collective • 🌀🗞 The FLUX Review, Ep. 160
Lyndsey Medford added 3mo
how to test ideas
I offered an invitation to ‘slow down’, which seems like the wrong thing to do when there’s fire on the mountain. But here’s the point: in ‘hurrying up’ all the time, we often lose sight of the abundance of resources that might help us meet today’s most challenging crises. We rush through into the same patterns we are used to. Of course, there isn’... See more
Bayo Akomolafe • A Slower Urgency • Writings – Bayo Akomolafe
Lyndsey Medford added 4mo
“A Slower Urgency” by Bayo Akomolafe
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