designing for imperfection in movement work

“there has never been a social justice movement that didn’t include people who were disappointing.” — alicia garza, episode 1 of how to survive the end of the world

dave snowden: managing in the present by designing parallel safe-to-fail experiments

dave snowden’s interview on the humancurrent was one of the few podcast episodes this year i felt like need a repeat listen. i could probably listen several more times and still be getting new things from it (the other was the last episode of season 1 of how to survive the end of the world).

a happy ending on a corporate sellout story: paws for trello

​as an early adopter, i’ve just gotten used to things that i love being dismantled. useful new fringe tools either get bought and slowly shelved (see sunrise), rolled into much less useful packages of tools (see bloatware that experiences feature creep), or watered-down so as not to really compete with the parent company’s top-of-the-line service/product offerings (see simple).

oleg konovalov: organizational culture as catalyst or inhibitor

another really interesting element of oleg konovalov’s organisational anatomy framework is the idea of culture as a catalyst (source: episode 37 of the humancurrent podcast).

storytelling tips from the moth

over the summer, i stumbled on the moth’s live storytelling tips while doing research for a project idea that came up between me and two folks from my better selves fellowship cohort (note that the tips are especially important for live storytelling, not all storytelling).