Influence Is Your Superpower by Zoe Chance
"In almost any negotiated agreement the key ingredients will be similar: dreams and data."
Finn Schubert
Hospicing Modernity by Vanessa Machado de Oliveira
I’m not going to finish this one right now, although I think it’s an important book. I’ve made it about a third of the way through.
I tend to agree with this review in Resilience. Specifically:
With all the admonitions, I was prepared to be deeply affected
Welcome to Workflows Before Rainbows
Today I watched the Steve Jobs Apple iPhone launch video after hearing Nancy Duarte’s TED talk explaining that all great presentations have the same structure: they move back and forth between the current state and the possible future, which helps the listener to make the shift to the future
The caterpillar forgets how to walk
I’ve made things too complicated again.
It’s almost like, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, except for online presence. I got this secret blog, but then I wanted a secret digital garden, and then I wanted to redo my website, and then I wanted to restart my
Lessons from the Cisco Icon Set
If you designed an icon set from scratch to diagram something important about your world, what would it look like?
Interruptibility is a Superpower
Last week, I wrote three conference abstracts while pausing about every half-sentence to interact with my toddler.
This workshop will—
“Yes, it’s a pink circle.”
—help participants to expand and apply their knowledge about—
“Oh, you want daddy to draw a circle? Okay!”
etc etc etc
I finished the
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