The irony is too much for me.

On a serious note, part of me agrees about trust-building in-person, but part of me thinks there's a lot more to building trust at companies than the in/out of office question. In-person does often organically offer more opportunities for bonding that boosts trust.

I love this! 🐀🍕

I’m deeply fascinated by life below the midnight zone and the fantastical creatures that live in the dark depths.

Especially interesting to learn more about what purposes animals use the rarity of their light making abilities for.

“The deep-sea isn’t an amazing collection of light,” Johnsen says. “It’s an amazing collection of potential light.”

I loved everything in this article: hearing about Dr. McDaniels’ immersive course offerings, and Dr. Peña-Guzmán’s approach to opening up about difficulties before diving into the long stretches of reading together. Very inspiring methods of shaking things up and creating more focused and engaged periods for students.

This article briefly clarifies the misconceptions about anarchism and illustrates an example of anarchism in practice. Excellent material for reclaiming a vilified term!

I catch myself often in the role of impatient human with bagels to offer (not literally) and yet I adore the nitty gritty of these seemingly minor debates. They feel essential, and the process feels essential, even as it can feel extraordinarily grueling. It's an ongoing practice for me to continually return to these settings, these conversations, and not give up on the process, amidst frustration and a feeling of time scarcity. For me personally, the only way through the challenges has been with the aid of spiritual/religious practice. I often wonder how others find their way through the frustration, tedium, and conflict that can arise in direct democratic processes like these.

Another conversation on anarchism that I’ve found excellent is the Everyday Anarchism podcast with Graham Culbertson (everydayanarchism.com).

Great overview of the challenges and hopes for the fediverse!

Thoroughly agree that “American organizations need to diversify the prototype of what a leader should look like.”

Beautiful, tragic, haunting reflections and photography (best viewed via original link).

Super important questions here. A few highlights for me:

There is a natural pace to human deliberation. A lot breaks when we are denied the luxury of time.

The challenges of having time for deliberation and organizing global coordination … issues for both climate and AI.

The “thinking,” for lack of a better word, is utterly inhuman, but we have trained it to present as deeply human.

Would you work on a technology you thought had a 10 percent chance of wiping out humanity?

How many other times in history could a similar question have been asked, and was it asked, I wonder?

Small glimmers of hope here and there…