Laura Pike Seeley
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Laura Pike Seeley
It's a complex mess that'll ultimately require a ledger of interventions to remedy in full -- but last week, scientists presented an intriguing way to help alleviate the burden.
Scientists Say We Could Feed 1 Billion More People With One Change to the Global Food System
At Modulous we are building a technology platform that enables the delivery of high-quality, sustainable multi-family homes, at scale and pace, globally. One aspect of my work at Modulous is that we are designing and delivering standardized housing modules – like Lego boxes that plug in side-by-side and top-to-bottom.
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Like many people I thought Covid, with its stopped clock and blunt force, would bring a major reckoning. A reckoning with small things, like what we wear, and with large things, too – how we relate to each other, for example, how we consume and, crucially, how we work. But what seemed to happen, and very quickly, was that people rushed back to try... See more
Eva Wiseman • Employees are being marched back to the office. But why? | Eva Wiseman
In the aftershocks of this pandemic’s ever-shifting “new normals”, let us make sure we create space for new and better patterns of life to emerge
Urban Empathy: The Next Big Shift
While a robust digital workplace makes it easy for employees to connect and efficiently complete required tasks, a knowledge-centric digital workplace supports more effective problem-solving, creates leaders at all levels and promotes psychological safety by centering an organization's most valuable asset: the knowledge of its people.
Laura Pike Seeley • What Does It Mean to Have a Knowledge-Centric Digital Workplace?
I think that the era of rigid zonal segregation is over. No longer can a city be simply divided into a series of discrete places: the place where I work, the place where I live, and the place where I want to spend my leisure time. This simplistic planning notion is about to change. People want to live in closer proximity to their work, and they... See more
Andre Brumfield • Trends to Watch Reshaping the Future of Cities and Urban Living
In the past few years, museums across the US, Europe, and Australia are trying to tackle the challenge of decolonizing their institutions. Museums are taking on this important work to try to make their museums reflect the diversity and the voices of the people within their collections and around them.
Museum Next • What does it mean to decolonize a museum?
This blog post is about how to manage information overload in the digital age. It discusses how technology has made information more accessible and easier to share, but also how this can lead to anxiety. The author describes how to counter some of the effects of information overload, including by using Mem’s latest feature, Mem It for Twitter.
Mem • TL;DR | The Memo
Emotional regulation is the process of experiencing an emotion, allowing the sensations to pass through the body (rather than trying to distract oneself with, say, drugs or alcohol or an iPhone or food), identifying it (‘I am angry right now’ or ‘I am sad’), and breathing through it until it eventually passes. The practise of emotional regulation
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