Links of the Week: October 17, 2025: All AI (Links) Must Go

Is AI the gift that keeps on giving or the curse that keeps on inflicting, or both?

Will AI Just Reinforce Museum Hierarchies? A "Shadow Article" on Museums and AI

AI is the latest digital transformation in museums, but despite its democratizing narrative are we treading the same old hierarchical grounds?

Links of the Week: October 8, 2025: Jobs of Ages

Talking about generations in museums workplaces—and in society—reflects darker aspects of a war-against-people economy

Museum Work and B*llshit Jobs

Museum work isn't BS—but are bad workplaces and organizations making museum jobs that way?

In Search of Sustainable Strategy for Museums: An Interview with Uma Nair

What is the relationship between skilled project management and sustainable museum strategy?

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: June 28, 2024: Project Manage This

Museums are ignoring the need for skills and culture as they rush towards a future they define in strategic plans.

The Mindset to Matter: A Review of Why Museums Matter and Videogames and the Public Museum

Are museum leaders and workers speaking languages too different for institutions to thrive?

Museums as Workplace Communities—a Guest Post by Rebecca Shulman

How can workplaces function when employees are recovering from recent COVID trauma?

The Story of Technological Progress is Not a Given: A Review of Power and Progress

The cultural sector has to change its ideas about progress and technology.

Links of the Week: March 22, 2024: A Map to Buried Treasure?

Half of any good map is the process of making your own.

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

Change isn't as simple as one event.

The Lonely Workplace Paradox

Why can't defenders of the workplace get over how often they're empty?

The Well-Being Dilemma for Museum Workers

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

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

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