Let us begin with More Joy Day 2024, which already happened earlier in the month, but it certainly something that you can still do any day. I'm having some fun with this joke about a local train, for example.
In defense of hierarchy and managers as a valuable part of self-organizing and adaptive systems. Which makes sense, as described there, and also lets me see where a significant amount of the managerial staff of my own organization don't visibly appear to be keeping themselves close enough to the actual work.
When considering work and professions, try to find, understand, and then remove the assumptions that a person working in your profession must be able-bodied. Preferably not by having someone try to do a job and run face-first into all of the problems and complain about them to you. Unless you're willing to commit up front that all of those complaints, when encountered, will be swiftly resolved with all the force that the C-suite can muster, so that the problem only ever happens once, if that. Urban planning and space design also has to avoid making the assumption that everyone who is in a space is able-bodied and healthy enough to take on additional burdens, so that when they design space, it can be used by people who have fatigue, or mobility aids, or other disabilities. And yes, that might also mean that the unhoused use those spaces, so rather than try to remove the things they use, why not work toward ensuring that there is enough housing for everyone? If there's graffiti on skyscrapers, that's a failure of having those spaces be inhabited and used as housing.
Quakers have a reputation for certain things as part of their gathering, ministry, and worship, but none of those things they are rumored for are true to that extreme of a degree.
( And so, so, much more inside. )
Last for tonight, the Unified Cutlery theory, involving spoons of energy, forks of aggravation, and borrowing knives to make up shortfalls.
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In defense of hierarchy and managers as a valuable part of self-organizing and adaptive systems. Which makes sense, as described there, and also lets me see where a significant amount of the managerial staff of my own organization don't visibly appear to be keeping themselves close enough to the actual work.
When considering work and professions, try to find, understand, and then remove the assumptions that a person working in your profession must be able-bodied. Preferably not by having someone try to do a job and run face-first into all of the problems and complain about them to you. Unless you're willing to commit up front that all of those complaints, when encountered, will be swiftly resolved with all the force that the C-suite can muster, so that the problem only ever happens once, if that. Urban planning and space design also has to avoid making the assumption that everyone who is in a space is able-bodied and healthy enough to take on additional burdens, so that when they design space, it can be used by people who have fatigue, or mobility aids, or other disabilities. And yes, that might also mean that the unhoused use those spaces, so rather than try to remove the things they use, why not work toward ensuring that there is enough housing for everyone? If there's graffiti on skyscrapers, that's a failure of having those spaces be inhabited and used as housing.
Quakers have a reputation for certain things as part of their gathering, ministry, and worship, but none of those things they are rumored for are true to that extreme of a degree.
( And so, so, much more inside. )
Last for tonight, the Unified Cutlery theory, involving spoons of energy, forks of aggravation, and borrowing knives to make up shortfalls.
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adrian_turtle, azurelunatic, boxofdelights, cmcmck, conuly, cosmolinguist, elf, finch, firecat, jadelennox, jenett, jjhunter, kaberett, lilysea, oursin, rydra_wong, snowynight, sonia, the_future_modernes, thewayne, umadoshi, vass, the meta_warehouse community, little_details, and anyone else I've neglected to mention or who I suspect would rather not be on the list. If you want to know where I get the neat stuff, my reading list has most of it.)
