PatternChaserFrom BlueSky, for all ND folk:
MelHamnavoe@brendt If an org has a cultural problem, changing its structures isn’t going to achieve very much, trying to layer a strong CEO role on top of a voluntary org probably won’t work either. In any role you lead by consent of the led, even in uniform. Either the people you have are persuaded to accept the cultural change, you get new people, or you wait until enough of them have left. #HerdingCats is a meme for a reason.
kevin@HitchhikersGuideQuoteBot2 totally tracks with my own experience. #herdingCats
Lea Beiermann🐈🐄 New #HerdingCats #newsletter just dropped – written from the Bavarian countryside (turns out cows can be surprisingly inspiring).
This edition is about community innovation:
▪️How innovation often starts with users, not companies
▪️What a Dutch DIY Wi-Fi network can teach us
▪️Why “field catalysts” might be key to supporting ecosystems without taking over
Plus: a handy #OpenSource tool, #OS award voting, and news on an emerging OS adoption index.
📬 Read it here: https://herdingcats.ghost.io/becoming-a-field-catalyst-for-community-innovation/
Finally, if you’re working in ecosystems or #community-led spaces, I’m always keen to hear how you think we can support innovation in ways that empower.
ThestaroftheworldsI'm finally married. I don't want to get married again. Not because of the heartache.
Just because it's tiring as fuck, a boatload of logistics, constantly arranging ducks, herding cats and outstandingly paralysingly expensive.
I enjoyed mine, but one only thank you.
The next one is I'm breaking a stick in two and calling it done.
Finder of Impossible Things#Journal, Day 1853
Tuesday, 15 April 2025
Ukraine War: Day 1159
Hamas-Israel War: Day 555
Mass shootings in the USA in 2025: 79
Days of OSG in office: 85
Days until Midterm Elections: 567
#TaxDay 2025
#burnout #herdingcats #dovenest
#realid #arsenal #votingrights
The latest #HerdingCats newsletter is out 🐈, featuring an analysis of the #EuroStack initiative's vision for a sovereign European digital infrastructure.
Also in this issue: an #OpenSource project that lets you build and customise your own timeline algorithm, plus some interesting reads on the impact of LLM scrapers on #FOSS infrastructure and what we can learn from "drunk-dialling" YouTube.
Read the full issue here: https://herdingcats.ghost.io/the-politics-of-the-eurostack-2/
TengrainDemocrats can walk and chew gum.
There is no reason —when the GOP has 2-vote majority in the House (and Mike Turner has vowed to oppose everything MAGA Mike Johnson brings to the floor as vengeance for being kicked off his committee)— we cannot gum up the works.
Also, no reason why we cannot grow a spine and resist EVERYTHING. Make them work for their goddamn 2-vote majority, #HerdingCats.
Jeebus, people: we have some power.
It’s not over.
I’m just thinking: do you think GQP will feel any fear if the dems go with #Kamala?
I ♥️ Kamala, just saying. #KHIVE
IFR (she/her)Tried to line the #kittens up for a #GroupPhoto tonight. It didn’t go well!
Four weeks old #today.
