thought
Unfortunately, this experience and information that I have, thanks to my position in the hierarchy, didn't count as knowledge. Meanwhile, my manager, being the CDO of the company, had the clout and authority to make his vague beliefs count as him knowing something, which then allowed him to assert that view as institutional knowledge in a way that... See more
Iris Meredith • Article
Humans are wired to connect.
But most organisations are not.
But most organisations are not.
Article
Makes me think of the idea that organizations have cultures and spirits that operate outside of the individuals within it and persist even as the individuals change.
Article on the real poverty line
Here is a reason in passing why in any immediate and open struggle with democracy, fascism for a while has the upper hand. Democracy is more scattered. It tends toward various levels of autonomies and certain kinds of general behavior. It is not until it is deeply challenged that its purpose takes on a metaphysical character and thus becomes a... See more
Howard Thurman, The Creative Encounter
Stay In It!
ask-polly.com
“…when your mind is focused on constant forward progress, when you’re propelled by anxiety and fear and the darkness that inevitably rises up around your choices, your losses, and the unnervingly uncertain path ahead, you’re always essentially accumulating new impressions that immediately become problems and puzzles and panics.”
Describes the linear path I always see from here to there, where I often collapse midway through …
How to fold socks
buttondown.com
“Take your ideas for bike rides. Take your troubles for a walk. Hop on a train and take your big design problem to the beach, let it breathe the salty air. Let it get some sun. Let it be part of the world.”
Blogging advice
The thing is, you probably have all the information you need already, you just can't bring yourself to sit down and listen to it, so you just keep chain-smoking podcasts and youtube videos, never really thinking, knowing deep down that the answers you seek are in the silence you're avoiding
Dylan O’Sullivan
In the September/October issue of the Biblical Archaeology Review , Phyllis Trible, a professor of sacred literature at Union Theological Seminary, discusses the strange account of Jacob wrestling with the God (or a man or an angel — it’s not so clear).