Optimism - Museum Human

Reading List

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.

Robert J Weisberg

Jul 3, 2024 • 9 min read

Links of the Week

Links of the Week: April 26, 2024: Process and Processing

Workplaces process trauma to the best of their ability—in our society, how good is that?

Robert J Weisberg

Apr 26, 2024 • 7 min read

Links of the Week

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

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

Robert J Weisberg

Dec 15, 2023 • 11 min read

Optimism

Links of the Week: December 8, 2023: Museum Preppers Edition

Optimists and pessimists, like people on many opposite sides, have more in common than they think.

Robert J Weisberg

Dec 8, 2023 • 9 min read

Reading List

Complexity, Simplicity, and Collapse, Part 2: Vibepocalyse Now

Is facing up to our dire reality really just a matter of vibes?

Robert J Weisberg

Dec 5, 2023 • 13 min read

Conferences

Can Museums Prioritize Civics, Wellbeing, and Technology All at Once?

A brief virtual conference made a game attempt to link civics, in a partisan age, staff wellbeing, and technology.

Robert J Weisberg

Nov 14, 2023 • 10 min read

Optimism

We Are All Standing on the Edge

As we teeter on the edges of so many problems, can we take in all that we're facing?

Robert J Weisberg

Nov 7, 2023 • 9 min read

Museums

Links of the Week: May 5, 2023: The Mismatch Game

We're hired as matches for our teams, but mismatches are more common in our orgs.

Robert J Weisberg

May 5, 2023 • 6 min read

Links of the Week

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.

Robert J Weisberg

Mar 17, 2023 • 5 min read