We tend to view change as something that happens to us, or something we create . . .
What does it mean to participate with change?
Join Marti Spiegelman and I this Wednesday.
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“Platform design is a silent pilot steering human behavior.”
Friend of New_ Public @lisa-schirch.bsky.social warns profit-driven social media design is leading us into an era of "techno-autocracy."
But in the right hands, platform design can foster democratic engagement and civic participation.
They are beautiful singers
Aphids or fungus would be my guess.
I need more sprinkles like this in my feed
Bingo 👇
House vote is in three hours . . .
protectmypublicmedia.org/rsc-calls/
This would be devastating to millions of kids and parents, thousands of teachers, and rural areas especially.
A friend over the weekend asked me if I had read/seen coverage of the village in Switzerland engulfed by a collapsing glacier. I had not. Wow.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
"We don’t need a new layer of technology between us—we need technology that removes the artificial barriers that exist between all of us—the stories we tell ourselves and the fear of being hurt that blocks love’s impulse to connect. This is what Relating AI is."
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New Power (3/3): Beneath today's politics, networks continue to transform how we connect and organize. At its core: participation is power.
New Power (2/3): Old power = currency (held by few, closed). New power = current (made by many, open). I still believe increasing transparency is our inevitable direction, despite setbacks. These represent fundamental shifts in how society organizes itself.
Found this 2018 talk I gave referencing Heimans & Timms' "New Power." In 2025, this shift feels both more urgent and challenging. The movement toward networked governance and transparency continues beneath the surface, even when not in headlines.
I am grateful to all the folks who are creating conditions for more human belonging.
And . . . it feels important to extend the conversation on belonging beyond the human realm.
We belong to each other. But beneath that, we belong to something larger.
www.leadingfrombeing.com/episode-32-s...
Working with eight public media orgs over five years showed me how vital independent local media is. These passionate teams are community mirrors, ears, and connective tissue. Without them at full strength, we lose far more than just Big Bird. bit.ly/4iPZakE #ProtectMyPublicMedia
Truthteller @andreagibson.bsky.social inspires many, including me.
"If I only reach out to you from the healed place, from the lesson learned, then we don’t get to sit in vulnerability together. Neatly resolved stories signal that the exploration is over."
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Fearless authenticity radiates so much beauty.
Destruction demands nothing of the soul—no wisdom to guide it, no courage to temper it. It feeds only on the emptiness of callousness, the mirage of power where none exists, and the petulant impulse of immaturity.
Although there are no guarantees in the kingdom of risk, nature shows us, time and again, that it is precisely at that moment of greatest risk, the moment when everything could be lost, that the greatest change happens. A new life opens out into a new world that could not have even been dreamed before this. It is difficult to find the courage and vision at the points of deepest wounding to believe that new risk can take us into new life. But there is no alternative. When we remain sealed away inside the shell, we are no longer able to hear our own life. Even the voices that really care for us sound like severed echo. We will grow only more deeply lost, unable to hear even the whispers of the heart. By John O'Donohue from his book, 'Divine Beauty'.
Once we recognise how control and self-protection rob life of all vitality and rhythm, we will find ourselves slowly advancing towards the threshold of risk and trust.
I am attracted to ellipsis, to the unsaid, to suggestion, to eloquent deliberate silence.
— Louise Glück
It is on my main street, not even in my alley.
This is good advice. I'm glad we're having a conversation about "facilitation" too but I wish the context was different.
Good way to spend 10 minutes at the end (or beginning) of you day? Scrolling through the broad list of worker cooperatives on Bluesky.
go.bsky.app/UsAcPoV
That's a courageous piece @ceejaedevine.bsky.social. I'm thankful you shared it.
"The body politic will change only when there is a democratization of guilt, responsibility, power and authority. We become politically potent by accepting responsibility, for better or worse, for the conduct of our leaders. In the long view, nations have the leaders they deserve."
"Repress awareness of any one feeling and all feelings are dulled. When we refuse to allow fear we correspondingly lose the ability to wonder. When we repress our grief we blunt our capacity to experience joy. The same nerve endings are required for weeping and dancing, fear and ecstasy."
. . . We can aspire to care for and transform this world only if we trust that spirit is incarnate in flesh and dirt. This world is our home. We are in the right place."
"I have come to be suspicious of any religion or form of therapy that focuses exclusively on cultivating the interior life or saving the soul and that does not include a celebration of the senses, an ecological vision, and a concern for social justice . . .
Sam used to say that from the moment we are born, someone is shoving software into our minds. It was up to each of us to question the veracity of this software.
If not for him, I likely never would have followed the path I have, including leaving city life.
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