You can't please everyone, so get used to it. Try to create events that work for everyone? You'll likely get one that works for no one.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2011/08/you-cant-please-everyone-get-used-to-it

#meetings #EventDesign #participation #PleasingEveryone #PleasingNoOne #events #eventprofs

The new uncomfortable normality
No Worries? Australian attitudes to national security, risk and resilience (report): National security starts at the front door – not at the territorial borders.

"For most Australians, the 18-month research project revealed, national security starts at their front door – not at the territorial borders of the island continent. It showed they are worried the country is not prepared for the demands of a volatile 21st century in a polluted information ecosystem, where the rules-based international order is crumbling, economic precarity has become uncomfortably normal and trust is more fragile." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/29/surging-anxiety-australia-national-security-patriotism-ntwnfb

Report: No Worries? Australian attitudes to national security, risk and resilience >>
https://nsc.anu.edu.au/research/no-worries-australian-attitudes-national-security-risk-and-resilience

#PublicAnxiety #anxiety #Australia #worries #trust #precarity #inequality #polycrisis #instability #safety #stability #participation #SocialIntegration #FarRight #SocialCohesion #belonging #HyperIndIvidualisation #UncomfortableNormality #climate #NationalSecurity #war

" Irrationalism has prevailed effortlessly, but reason never triumphs on its own – it must be fought for. "

- Heinrich Mann, On Hate, 1933
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Mann
#hate #destruction #nationalism #militarism #authoritarianism #war #UncheckedPower #SocialCohesion #democracy #participation
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Please don't call me a speaker. Even if you give me just 25 minutes, I'll include time for people to interact with the content I'm sharing.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2014/05/please-stop-calling-me-a-speaker

#presentations #presenter #speaking #speaker #interaction #participation #eventprofs

#Design #Analyses
Don’t design for average users · ”The era of the ‘average user’ must end.” https://ilo.im/16bipl

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#Business #Strategies #Metrics #Users #Participation #Engagement #ProductDesign #UxDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign