17 March 2023

Links of the Week: March 17, 2023: The Brittle

This week's links include the polycrisis, transparency, care vs fascism, and what museums should be doing about it all.

14 March 2023

Museums and the X-day Workweek

A shorter workweek is under discussion, but are orgs still desperately avoiding real flexibility?

24 February 2023

Links of the Week: February 24, 2023: Getting Back to Museums

Museums and their workers have a world full of problems to deal with.

24 January 2023

Quiet Quitting in Museums is More than Just Taking It Easy

Quiet quitting is a journey of worker self-worth and one that museums have to take very seriously.

15 July 2022

Links of the Week: July 15, 2022: (Northern) Summer Grab Bag

Here are some links on mission creep, DEIA, crypto, and burnout.

29 June 2022

Changing Museum Overwork Culture and More

Can lessons used in changing overwork behaviors be applied to larger societal issues?

15 March 2022

We Ignore the Museum Busyness Elephant at Our Peril

Museum workloads are undermining the entire remote/return discussion and so much more.

21 January 2022

Links of the Week: January 21, 2022: Traumatic Times

Exploitation around many individual issues is adding up to big trauma for museum workers.

02 November 2021

Museum Disruption Revisited (and Dismantling Visited)

Can museum workers really down bring their own system?

17 September 2021

Links of the Week: September 17, 2021: The Great Exhausting

The Great Resignation is here, but is there a deeper issue lurking in the museum field?

27 July 2021

Introverts and Extroverts in Museum Work

Is a museum workplace possible which benefits introverts, extroverts, and everyone who's both and in between?

20 July 2021

Museum Work in an Age of Anxiety

Are museums and workers ready to confront existential threats to their very existence?

13 July 2021

The NFT Conundrum for Museums

Can museums resist the latest get-rich-quick-(by-making-others-poor) scheme?

26 March 2021

Busyness, Revisited

The cult of busyness is the museum field's daily expression of weaponized and exploited time.

23 February 2021

How to Make Museum Work Flexible, not Fauxible

Flexible work is not just schedules and policies. It's roles, skills, mindsets, and more. Otherwise it's fake flexibility: fauxibility.