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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The Creator Economy and Media & Culture

So What Do You Do?

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Making Sense

We cannot really conceive of the problems that will arise when we start trying to build a free society. What now seem likely to be the thorniest problems might not be problems at all; others that never even occurred to us might prove devilishly difficult. There are innumerable X-factors.

David Graeber • A practical utopians guide to the coming collapse – David Graeber

Practical Utopia

According to Asana’s Anatomy of Work Index, which surveyed over 10,000 knowledge workers from around the globe, the average person only spends about a quarter of their time on skills-based work—like coding, designing, or creating marketing campaigns—and another 13% on strategic planning. The remaining 60% of their day is spent communicating about... See more

Asana • The Way We Work Isn't Working [2023] • Asana

Labor Under Capitalism

The Creator Economy and

We need more than first responders to navigate crises and create change. Source: https://buildingmovement.org/blog/mapping-our-social-change-roles-in-times-of-crisis/

Many of us have oriented our entire lives around an effort to be “normal,” never realizing that “normal” is not a stationary goal. It keeps moving while we dance a perpetual foxtrot, jitterbug, and paso doble around it, trying to catch up and confused when we finish each day exhausted and uninspired by this party called life.

Sonya Renee Taylor • The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

The Mythical Norm

Three strategies to prevent young adult mental health troubles

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Higher Ed Under Capitalism

Using empowerment theory, we depart from this consensus to focus on the moderating role that social structural empowerment can have on the empowering leadership-psychological empowerment relationship. We propose that empowering leadership and social structural empowerment interact to affect employee psychological empowerment, such that lower (vs.... See more

Tobias Dennerlein • Just a moment...

Emotions @ Work

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

— Albert Camus

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The Mythical Norm