What this is:A quick way to figure out which collaboration skill you need to work on right now. Not a diagnosis—just a mirror to see where you're getting stuck. Why it matters:Sometimes conversations feel hard, but we don't know why. This helps you identify the specific thing that needs attention. Understanding This Practice You're not … Continue reading 🧭 Structural Stability Self-Check
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Evil: Between Circumstance and Disposition
https://twitter.com/DiabolicalSpuds/status/1970837235907035151 Evil: Between Circumstance and Disposition The claim that "evil does not exist" offers seductive comfort in our contemporary moment. It suggests that all human harm can be explained away through trauma, ideology, or circumstance—that beneath every atrocity lies a victim of forces beyond their control. Yet this denial, however psychologically appealing, fails to account … Continue reading Evil: Between Circumstance and Disposition
The Value of Social Media
"Avoid politics and the multitude of irrelevant struggles designed to channel your energies into someone else’s agenda." The key tension of social media is that there are a lot of bad ideas, but there are a few really good ones mixed in with them. The good ideas have the potential to give you insight, to … Continue reading The Value of Social Media
Accept, Reframe, Or Reject
"EVERYONE GETS SHITTY FEEDBACK sometimes. There are a variety of reasons for this, starting with the fact that giving feedback is difficult and most people are terrifically bad at it. But even those who have developed strong feedback skills will still sometimes do it poorly, because the attention and care required to do it well are … Continue reading Accept, Reframe, Or Reject
The Corruption of Apology
"True apologies are precious. They’re a secular process of remediation, drawing on moral intuitions shared by many religious traditions. They encourage membership in one’s moral community because they are fundamentally relational: They heal the bond between wrongdoer and wronged. By temporarily humbling the perpetrator and vindicating the victim, they pave the way for both sides to make up. Apologies … Continue reading The Corruption of Apology
Forer Statements As Updates And Affirmations
"The Forer Effect is a trick used by astrologers, psychics, and social psychologists...What statements show a Forer effect? Wikipedia just says they should be vague and somewhat positive. Can we do better?......Or you could phrase them as affirmations, or arguments for self-compassion...- Scott Alexander, "Forer Statements As Updates And Affirmations." astralcodexten.substack.com. July 26, 2022 I found the concept … Continue reading Forer Statements As Updates And Affirmations
Participatory Economics Overview: What, Why, How
"Vision is not only about the future, but also the present. What would having a vision like the one called participatory economics imply for today’s practical choices?Broadly considered, if you want to get someplace new, it behooves you to take steps towards where you want to go, not steps that take you somewhere else. An … Continue reading Participatory Economics Overview: What, Why, How
Woke or Witch-Hunt?
"At the protest, I met Tulsi Patel, a postdoc at Columbia. Patel tells me about a new bullying policy at Columbia, which she helped to write, to deal with “power-based harassment” that doesn’t fall into the already illegal categories like sex and race-based harassment. “We recommended calling it the Office of Conflict Resolution, just to … Continue reading Woke or Witch-Hunt?
Love as the Practice of Freedom by bell hooks
"Critically examining these blind spots, I conclude that many of us are motivated to move against domination solely when we feel our self-interest directly threatened. Often, then, the 1onging is not for a collective transformation of society, an end to politics of dominations, but rather simply for an end to what we feel is hurting … Continue reading Love as the Practice of Freedom by bell hooks
Entitativity: Thinking and Feeling Together
"Our culture and our institutions tend to fixate on the individual—on his uniqueness, his distinctiveness, his independence from others. In business and education, in public and private life, we emphasize individual competition over joint cooperation. We resist what we consider conformity (at least in its overt, organized form), and we look with suspicion on what … Continue reading Entitativity: Thinking and Feeling Together
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