coaching for clarity and courage
We spend a lot of cognitive energy thinking about climate change, but climate change is not our core problem. Climate change is a symptom. It’s an awful symptom that will radically change, possibly destroy life on earth. But we actually […]
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This Village Voice article about two young men travelling to Syria to support the feminist rebel state of Rojava left me thoughtful and dazed all day. Are they traveling to change the world the only way they can identify? Are […]
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Stepping into the ring was brave, but Muhammad Ali also did something much braver. He refused the draft, and he told us why: Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and […]
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Right now, I’m reading The Five Stages of Collapse, by Dmitry Orlov. It’s an intense book, predicated on the idea that the global economy is in a process of disintegration. I’m taking it very slowly, attempting to get what I need […]
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You can’t fight every fight. That is not how fighting works. Not even if you actually are right, every time. (Spoiler: you’re not. You are human and humans make mistakes. I myself once thought the hippo roller was a useful […]
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International development is mostly about the long-term change. We rarely see the results of our work soon, or first-hand. Sometimes finding your brave is finding a way to make a difference you can see, just to remind you that change does […]
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I re-watched Star Wars this weekend, and I noticed two things: The Empire Strikes Back is the plotty heart of the trilogy and we should all stop ignoring it in favor of farmboy Luke on one end and Ewoks on the […]
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Four people being brave about sex: Dave Hingsburger is a disability activist and sexuality educator who writes a fantastic blog. Emily Nagoski wrote a bestselling, extremely readable book on the science of arousal and maintains an excellent blog about new research […]
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Boniface Mwangi is a Kenyan activist. He’s also a TED fellow, which means I’ve spent a decent amount of time with him. We were in Brazil for TED Global a couple of years ago, and he told me something I’ve […]
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Xulhaz Mannan was violently murdered yesterday. He was a Bangladeshi writer who edited an LGBT magazine, and worked for USAID in Dhaka. It’s a devastating loss – to the LGBT community in Bangladesh, and to the nation as a whole. Xulhaz was […]
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If you’re like most of the people I know, you’re desperately worried and afraid. And you feel helpless. What the hell does any individual person do about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine? I’ll start with what not to do. Stay off […]
I refuse to live in fear forever is the kind of thing you say when your life has been so comfortable you’ve never had to look at the world straight on In my own community I keep hearing people say, […]
A lot of American systems were one big shock away from disaster and this is that disaster 1. A lot of American systems were one big shock away from disaster and this is that disaster. Healthcare, but also public education, […]