Why do anything differently and where to start? — In Part 1, I explored the general cause of churn that happens within a group of people that are typically stratified by some kind of hierarchy, while they try and collaborate to solve a complex problem. I shared some high level reasons why I care about this. Here, I’m going…

Welcome to the suck zone. — Swirl. Churn. Runaround. These are common experiences when people in different strata in a hierarchy come together to solve a problem. These unfortunate dynamics can make otherwise rewarding work painful by obfuscating the path forward. It is a challenge from leadership to the operational ground floor. I believe we should…

Recipe: a safe, protein rich, and yummy snack for baby — Welcome to my place for publishing goodness I discover or create related to raising a “good egg” and feeding him the bounty of my backyard flock. This is my first article here, which is a result of me not being able to find a recipe that met my desire for…

Care is rooted in a sense of sorrow or grief, and if we let it, it leads us to act. — I’ve been struggling to pin point exactly why my heart hurts more than usual these days. Unrelenting disaster status in local and global media and my sensitivity as a mother with a teenager and an infant might have something to do with it. But that’s not all. Between dishes, diapers…

How might we optimize our delivery? — As I prepare to take maternity leave in April, I’m making every effort to share insights I’ve gained on public sector reform and service delivery. My experience building a team and community at The Exchange Lab, I sense, is fairly unique. The walls of the Lab had previously sheltered people…

Poetry and lyrics — You’ve been told a lie That touches on a truth About how you were hurt Or are missing out on something (something) Promised in your youth. Baby you’ve been told a lie. And when you’re falling There is no sense of time. And when you’re burning, Holding back water is…

What this last decade has taught me, and what the next may bring. — New Years is a good time to get organized, so the internet’s display of humanity would tell us. People seek to get organized so they can achieve their resolutions, or the resolution is simply: get organized. Putting things in order to achieve something specific is different from organizing to optimize…

We’ve been approaching the edge for a while. A horizon line, morphing in front of us as we move through time and vastly different experiences across this planet, arrives to our collective conscience with the same curved edge. Despite a desire to see the world so differently — flat, even…

#Weeknotes for October 24, 2020 A pale blush sits above the stoney blue horizon where treed hills barely conceal what appears to be a lake… but what I know is a growing heap of trash. The horizon is a poetic place. …