Making sense of ‘shifting baseline syndrome’ in the world & in the workplace. New post → Vanishing fish, boiling frogs & the dry bed of the sea Read it on Improve Something Today: improvesomething.today/vanishing-fi...

Ways to practice: refusal, invitation, risk. The new Ram Dass book. Revisiting ‘whole-heartedness.’ New post → A choice to counter culture: notes for November 2025 Read it on Improve Something Today: improvesomething.today/notes-novemb...

Revisiting Argyris’ ‘undiscussables’ as emergent, unwanted behaviors & as features of organizational control. Keeping courage, showing kindness. New post → ‘Undiscussables’ 45 years later: still here, still bad & somehow even worse Read it here: improvesomething.today/undiscussabl...

Readings on sneaker manufacturing, a dismal vision from the 1960s, & Wendell Berry on ‘provision.’ Plus two upcoming events. New post → The undefined moon: notes for October 2025 Read it on Improve Something Today: improvesomething.today/notes-octobe...

Remembering Joanna Macy. Two book recommendations (on AI and on facilitation). Two ways of looking at a chair. New post → Needing Earth and body: notes for July 2025 Read it on Improve Something Today: improvesomething.today/notes-july-2...

Readings about, and in response to, the ‘who cares era’. Ways to show and give care in an extraordinarily careless time. New post → Always becoming otherwise: notes for June 2025 Read it on Improve Something Today: improvesomething.today/notes-june-2...

Documenting institutional collapse. The curse of knowledge & cursed knowledge. Workshops on connecting measurement to strategy. New post → A real hoot: notes for May 2025 Read it on Improve Something Today: improvesomething.today/notes-may-20...

I have to say that it seems like lots of AI power users are in the gamified machine zone — attracted by the constant attention of feedback loops, agnostic of what that feedback is. The casino has come for the minds of the C suite.

Whether or not you're in Toronto you should read the manifesto for why I'm doing this, and maybe you can run your own in your city as well. showuptoronto.ca/manifesto

Hi pals, I'm launching a new project today called Show Up Toronto!! It's a website and weekly newsletter that aggregates organizing/advocacy/direct action events in the city so you can find out how to get involved without Insta/FB. First email tomorrow, sign up and tell your friends showuptoronto.ca

Two things to read. Plus guides for getting started in consulting (find a client), writing (get over oneself), and analysis (find insight in data). New post → You only take what you bring: notes for April 2025 Read it on Improve Something Today: improvesomething.today/notes-april-...

Readings on systems thinking and change management. An upcoming event series on facilitation and health. Last week’s weather. New post → Monthly links & notes for March 2025 Read it on Improve Something Today: improvesomething.today/monthly-link...

A guide to finding and making the most of disagreements. New post → Why people work at cross-purposes & what to do about it Read it on Improve Something Today: improvesomething.today/why-people-w...

Still recruiting for my study, "Diagnosis by Algorithm." I'm looking for women 25 and older for whom social medial was a part of their self-diagnosis process. More info here: sites.google.com/view/diagnos...

We have braille versions of the Pineapple Friends books! Thank you Inclusive Imagination! 💫 Pineapple Friends Accessiblity & Alternate Format Interest Form: forms.gle/KbxgJwLpA4Ap... #goanddo✨ #inclusivedesign #braille youtube.com/shorts/IK0n4...

The State of Facilitation report. Readings on AI and Ursula Franklin. A plug for improving your online typography and an awkward podcast appearance. New post → Monthly links & notes for January 2025 Read it on Improve Something Today: improvesomething.today/monthly-link...

Thanks to the kind folks at @assistivlabs.com for allowing me to get on my #accessibility systems soapbox!

It’s the year’s end. I bring you: six amazing things my friends did, an activity for reflection and planning, and a farewell to my waders and to the year. New post → Monthly links & notes for December 2024 Read it on Improve Something Today: improvesomething.today/monthly-link...

On the blog → Monthly links & notes for November 2024 This month I bring you a talk on values at work, the new Multisolving book (which I think you should read) and notes on whole-heartedness. improvesomething.today/monthly-link...

On the blog → Monthly links & notes for October 2024 This month I bring you three readings (on fear, dormancy, and group deliberation) and two books—one from 1919, and one just published. Plus a 9th century poem. improvesomething.today/monthly-link...

On the blog → Monthly links & notes for September 2024 Two extremely 2024 readings. Grace Hopper’s extremely 2024 lecture from 1982. Also, registration now open for the best, dorkiest online event of the year. improvesomething.today/monthly-link...