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The backpacker's guide to leadership
Last weekend I headed out for an early season, overnight backpacking trip with a group of friends. 🏔️ 🥾 🏕️ 🌲 As usual, Nature provided some valuable…
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Why we need dissident tech, now!
It's becoming ever more apparent that the social impact sector needs its own tech stack, not just for the current climate. Crossposting here something I…
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Form should follow function...ality
Reflecting on some experiences with organizational design, I am revising the design principle that form should follow function to focus on what works in…
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The view from the other side of the Atlantic
Just got back from 2 weeks of personal and professional travel in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪 🇬🇧 and here are some quick takeaways
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My year of living dangerously
Turns out, an intention I had set for myself at the dawn of the new year has been providing a welcome antidote to the stress of adjusting to the…
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This is not normal
Posting this as a reminder that you can have normal days in profoundly not normal times. It's part of the delightful contradictions that make us human…
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The Impact Capital Conundrum
Reposting a recent guest post, the first in a new series of my musings on innovative finance. 💸
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Nonprofits are getting trapped in the Prisoners' Dilemma
At a moment in history when collective action is needed, the prevailing logic of the industry will lead to outcomes that are worse for all involved.
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Nonprofit is a corporate form, not a business model
The year is only two months old and I am already tired of nonprofit event organizers and others reaching out to ask me to do things for free, "because…
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Take No Sh*t, Give No F&cks
Take No Sh*t, Give No F&cks
The professional is always personal. Musings on my life in leadership--hacking legacy institutions, principled design, accelerating social change, and other pursuits.
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