ruining it for everyone
by I went for a walk last week. I wasn’t having a particularly good day and needed to go out into the world to help clear my head. I bought a …
Category: essay
thought experiments
who is america for?
There are no safe harbors. Week after week, day after day, we feel the erosion of our rights and liberties. The protections many of us have long enjoyed are going …
step by step
Why don’t we have a template for implementing racial equity practices? I get this question every now and then. I totally understand: we seek to upend an entrenched way of …
the potted plants
[Quick note: I’m taking a break next week to get myself back together as I recover from covid. New posts will resume on June 24.] I’ve been living in isolation …
a vision for the future, part 2
Another week, another horrifying massacre. Any one of these events should have been enough to grind our country to a halt. Instead, there have been 212 mass shootings in america …
terms and conditions
American society consists of people with deep disagreements about pretty much everything. But I know there’s one thing we can all agree on: nobody is reading the terms of service …
moving the unmovable
[Hi everyone, quick note from me here. I recently wrote this blog post alongside a training I led for the Washington Society of Association Executives and their learning series, ‘Shop …
a vision for the future
For the last year I worked on the local health department’s COVID-19 vaccine strategy. This is the third pandemic I’ve worked at a public health agency, and I’m grateful to …
we are what’s next
Think back to a time about six years ago. Hillary Clinton was in Minnesota. While campaigning for president, she spoke with a voter in a Minneapolis coffeeshop. The voter, Stacey …
breaking the walls
Every day we come across stories about how the ultra-wealthy are different from us. Their private jets take them at a moment’s notice to any place they desire. Their mansions …