A Review of Bootstrapped and a Webinar on Worker Self-Directed Nonprofits

Organizations too often believe the twin myths of individual self-reliance and worker disempowerment.

Links of the Week: March 15, 2024: The Ides of Change

Change isn't as simple as one event.

Awareness of Self and Others in Museum Work

If we don't have the time for awareness of ourselves, how can museum workers serve audiences and society?

Wrong, Revisited: Museum Worker Pain Points

Can we be wrong and right about museum-field pain points at the same time?

Links of the Week: April 1, 2022: The Center Cannot Hold

Organizations are too often centered on leaders. How can museums shift to centering the humanity of everyone?

Links of the Week: February 4, 2022: the Non-Fungible Mind

If mindfulness is the art of noticing, then NFTs are the new noticing of art.

The Museum Human Sangha is an Experiment in Liberation

We'll build on our shared knowledge and uncertainty with a Discord community for Museum Human subscribers.

Resilience, Revisited

Is resilience in the museum sector just another individualized solution to structural problems?

Museum Work in an Age of Anxiety

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

The Mindfulness Dilemma for Museums

Can a practice dedicated to being in the present moment help when museums fetishize the past while cannibalizing their future?

The Museum at the End of the World: "I Didn't Mean It Literally" Edition

What should museums do in the apocalypse? Stop talking about leadership, realism, and the new normal, to start.

The Burnout Dilemma

Is burnout in the museum field something particular to the sector, or just another expression of the rotten Matrix? And which do we tackle first?

We Made a Book!

Two of us self-styled change agents wrote a book about how to deal with change, and then how to deal yourself in.

Mindfulness is a Terrible Thing for Museums to Waste

Workplaces are only getting busier. How do museum workers find time to think?