Entry from The Devil’s Dictionary of the Workplace:

Learning and development. - n. A one-way process whereby bosses enact their will upon those whom they can coerce through threat of joblessness.

Reading Solidarity by Astra Taylor and Leah Hunt-Hendrix and reflecting on timeframes and scales of change.

When bad things happen at scale, what local good are we doing for each other?

If we can’t immediately end the greatest threats we face, we can immediately engage the challenges of working with those closest to us, setting out to sustain first steps toward long-term solutions.

#AmReading #solidarity #coalition #dialogue #facilitation #TheoryOfChange #change #organizing

It’s more than a little dismaying to reflect on the number of people whose theory of change is “people have to do things my way.”

#organizing #dialogue #deliberation #facilitation #coalition #TheoryOfChange

“All the virtues, all there is of goodness, kindliness, courtesy is of our own creation, and we must sustain them, otherwise they will go out of existence into darkness, as a star goes out.”

Earl F. Cook in C. W. Reese (Ed.) Humanist Sermons, 1927

Happy World Humanist Day!

Finally got around to my re-read of @timpratt's Doors of Sleep (and read the sequel for the first time).

Perhaps a forest-for-the-trees situation, but I had forgotten how large a role journaling plays in the narratives (the books are epistolary, narrated through journal entries of the characters).

The process of writing and reflection is affirmed throughout the story. Though there’s also a point where the protagonist stops journaling after a crisis, which I empathized with.

“’I like writing with a stylus,’ I said. ‘Back on my world, I used ink on paper when I wrote. For some reason, it helps me think better than typing on a keyboard does. I feel closer to the language somehow.’”

#journaling #diary #WritingTools #reflection #writing #stationery #HigherEd

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