Take Emotion Seriously
When designing anything, even–especially–systems that feel like they are dry and neutral, we need to take emotion seriously. What does that look like?
a data system is a hypothesis about the world
A file system is an expression of how you see the world. Which things are like other things? Which things are different? Which categories are important? Which are unimportant? Organizations have trouble creating a file system that works for everyone, because everyone sees the world differently. And because they think
Who sold us the idea that we need a tagline?
Appreciated Fred Tally-Foos' piece niching down is bad and inhuman about the idea that “we need to be able to give our elevator pitch, explain who we are in a concise way on a resume or an Instagram bio, and use that clarity to move forward in life.
When was the last time you explained something to someone?
When was the last time you explained something to someone? Did you do so willingly? With the excitement of mutual discovery? Did you do so grudgingly, perhaps because they’d never understand anyway? Or maybe because you couldn’t believe they hadn’t just googled it? (Remember that website, Let
We need to talk about trans people and power
I felt anxious today. I felt the sense of not being able to please everyone, of disappointing a lot of people. I felt the pressure and impossibility of being a trans person in leadership. We are not supposed to exist. We are supposed to be metaphors. We are supposed to
LGBTQ Health Equity Mantras
1. WORKFLOWS BEFORE RAINBOWS. 2. COMPASSION BEFORE COMPETENCE. 3. DON'T RAISE AWARENESS. CHANGE BEHAVIOR. 4. TOP OF MIND MEANS TOP OF BUDGET. 5. SET HIGH EXPECTATIONS. COMMIT TO THEM. 6. INVEST IN TRANS LEADERS. 7. PARTNER WITH COMMUNITY LEADERS WHO CHALLENGE YOU. 8. x PATIENT NAVIGATION IS HEALTH
intuition is a practice
When I was growing up, there was no way to look up when the train came. Sometimes a tourist would ask, "Where is the train schedule?" A New Yorker would reply, "There is no train schedule." I mean, there was. I suppose there probably was a
the old spiritual equation
Once, I might have boiled my beliefs about spiritual life down to a simple equation: MEDITATE MORE = BETTER LIFE Meditating more was easy enough to quantify. If a 30-minute period was good, surely a 35-minute one was better. If one period a day was good, why not two?
What would a different container for online writing look like?
Let's think about the inherent characteristics of the blog format, which I would also see as including most online newsletters with a website archive. These generally have: * Work that is finished, or mostly finished * Presented in a linear, time-based format (typically reverse chronological order) * A sense of