Tara McMullin

@taramcmullin

Writer, podcaster, and producer baffled by the absurdity of neoliberal capitalism. Autistic feminist. Aspiring independent scholar. Amateur baker. Host of the What Works podcast and author of a book of the same name.

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Principles

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Broken Links

And I realised that if you ever hear someone explaining things in terms of a long list of caveats, the odds are good that you’re looking at tacit knowledge in action.

Cedric Chin • Why Tacit Knowledge Is More Important Than Deliberate Practice

Knowledge Work

How past trauma impacts emotional intelligence: Examining the connection

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Emotions @ Work

In some ways, the distinction between normalcy and pathology is arbitrarily defined—as well as hard to measure.

Meghan O'Rourke • The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness

The Mythical Norm

And if communities are spaces for belonging, cohorts are spaces for becoming.

Brian Dell • LF11 - Cohort Futures

Community Design

Science Fiction and

I’ve been mainlining Le Guin’s non-fiction writing. It strikes me reading this passage again that she’s bumping up against Harry Frankfurt’s definition of “bullshit.” To paraphrase, that bullshit doesn’t concern itself with the truth—it’s objective is outside the realm of information. I don’t think fiction is bullshit, obviously. But now I’m curious about the qualities of fiction as they relate to the qualities of bullshit.

Anything that we playbook becomes more legible to AI.

So we must burn the playbooks .

This is the real Butlerian Jihad, not destroying the machines, but destroying the playbooks that would turn us into machines.

Packy McCormick • Burn the Playbooks

Artificial Intelligence

American economy creates new jobs through organizing waste which is at best harmless and at worst poisonous and destructive.

James Boggs • The American Revolution: Pages From a Negro Worker's Notebook

Labor Under Capitalism

From the editor's’ foreword to “The American Revolution: Pages from a Negro Worker’s Notebook” by James Boggs, 1963

I’ve spent the last year and a half telling everyone that TikTok saved my career. But that’s not true. What saved my career was writing a great fucking book.

Laura Steven • On social media, moving needles, and an act of blind faith

the art of writing