mandy brown / is on Nostr

Thinking about reading, work, and technology. Reformed tech leader; now helping people make space for more humane, sustainable work. Posting from https://aworkinglibrary.com/thinking/.

Reading: https://aworkinglibrary.com
Practicing: https://everythingchanges.us
Pronouns: she/they
Location: Lenapehoking / Philadelphia

Last Notes

2024-08-31 15:59:03

“It feels like the best reason to get online anymore is to somehow increase the odds that I’ll be able to meet someone offline, which is where most of the good stuff happens anyway. We need to be able to find each other.” https://fjord.style/reorientation

2024-08-07 14:06:19

Chewing on something about the difference between willpower and discipline: willpower is the exhaustible—and frequently exhausted—skill of negotiating choices; discipline is committing to a path and rejecting the bargain.

2024-06-12 12:59:43

My conclusion from this man’s remarkable life is that blogging is the key to longevity. Blog more, everyone! https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/11/us/morrie-markoff-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.zE0.oCCY.m6QF6G9S4hjS&smid=url-share

2024-05-22 13:17:40

We really haven’t learned a goddamn thing about female-gendered bots have we. (I wrote this *eight* fucking years ago.) https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/bots

2024-05-01 13:03:08

Something I often talk about with my clients is to question when we reflexively say we have “no choice” but to do something. We always, always have a choice. “No choice” usually really means “I don’t want to bear the consequences of not doing this thing.” Which then opens up space to ask: what are those consequences? Why are *those* the things we don’t want to bear? And what are the consequences of *making* this choice?
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2024-02-28 18:55:44

I wrote about the specter that haunts all feedback conversations—defensiveness—and how we’re coming at it from the wrong direction. Also, the steerswomen! And zombies!!
https://everythingchanges.us/blog/in-defense-of-defensiveness/