Robert J Weisberg

I work on a bit of everything in museum content. I find human solutions to tech problems. I geek out on workflow. No, really. I learn and teach and write everything down.

02 February 2024

Links of the Week: February 2, 2024: Can't Pass on the Future

Museums and organizations haven't figured out the future of worker well-being. Is it beyond their organizational ability?

30 January 2024

The Well-Being Dilemma for Museum Workers

Do museum workers need to take charge of their own well-being—and that of their institutions?

26 January 2024

Links of the Week: January 26, 2024: Finding Forward

Can museums and their workers move in the same direction at the same time?

23 January 2024

What Do Museums Need to Do to Move Forward for Their Workers?

Museums being honest know that equity, fairness, and justice are organizational problems. Are they avoiding the necessary solutions?

19 January 2024

Links of the Week: January 19, 2024: Museum Workers Come in from the Cold?

What is to be done if the "fall" of museum work is just a part of a greater malaise?

16 January 2024

Is the Fall of the Museum Workplace a Matter of Time?

Is 2024 the year that museum work stops making sense, for good?

12 January 2024

Links of the Week: January 12, 2024: Blood in the System

Discussions about technology are about so much more than machines.

09 January 2024

Museum Luddites, Revisited: A Review of Blood in the Machine by Brian Merchant

A new book connect the Luddite uprising of the 1810s to current tech-directed work.

05 January 2024

Links of the Week: January 5, 2024: Digging in the Link Pile, part 3

We finish up a three-week link dump with AI and decision-making.

02 January 2024

What Might Be in Store for Museum Human in 2024

Museum Human considers paid-tier and discoverability dilemmas, among others.

29 December 2023

Links of the Week: December 29, 2023: Digging in the Link Pile, part 2 (and finding AI)

AI was clearly the term of the year—check out some links to see how it played out.

26 December 2023

The Top Museum Human Themes of 2023

What did readers get in 105 posts of Museum Human this year?

22 December 2023

Links of the Week: December 22, 2023: Digging in the Link Pile, part 1

There's no shortage of articles about AI, so we'll start with anything but.

19 December 2023

The Top Museum Human Posts of 2023

Museum Human readers in 2023 enjoyed interviews almost as much as reading about quiet quitting.

15 December 2023

Links of the Week: December 15, 2023: Collapsagideon Time

Is there room for different approaches to—or even understandings of—societal collapse?