In-person conferences are fun and enriching, but what's happening right now is that knowledge is being shared more quickly, more democratically, and with less ecological impact than before - and that is absolutely worth embracing.

something that got clarified in a DM conversation just now: the vast majority of the harm i think school does to children is completely invisible. it's lost creativity and energy that should be there but isn't. you have to have a sense of what's possible to feel its absence

This year has been unrelentingly bleak, so I want to tell you a real-life Cinderella story that started almost exactly ten years ago today. (A THREAD)

📢The Oct 19 application deadline for Forum for the Future's new SPARK program for intermediate #systemschange practitioners is approaching! Discover new curriculum detail here: bit.ly/30hqPpk

How might #philanthropy adapt to more effectively address the #systemic nature of our current crises? Our own @EleniSotos reflects on one promising opportunity we see at the Garfield Fdn: investing in systems-based #CollaborativeNetworks. Find out why: bit.ly/2J4domS

I second this.

Beautiful thread. #ThankAFarmworker

If education stays the same, in structure, content & relationship to forming identity in social patterns- nothing will change. Intergenerational continuity is how social patterns perpetuate. C19 has kids dis-rhythmed from the ed system. There is both pain & possibility.

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ON OUR RADAR📢 The Building Belonging community, a home for ppl committed to building a world where everyone belongs & who believe transformation is relational. Cohorts are curated as #fractals of the world we want to live in. You may find resonance: bit.ly/3riN0Xl

Did you know that over 80,000 chemicals are on the market in the US, and few have been tested for safety?youtu.be/U_Zi00wVB3E

Unacceptable Risk: Dr. Margaret Kripke on Cancer and the Environment youtu.be/U_Zi00wVB3E via YouTube The frontier of cancer research? Prevention! Everyone curious about increase of cancers, and what can be done...

So much fun to speal with Sanderson Jones. This conversation is a warm intro to systemic thinking for folks who are just starting to get involved.

"As the deepest layer of a system, mental models are the bedrock upon which a system is built. The most important part of this is looking at the relationships between all these different elements — that’s where the real story is" garfield-foundation.medium.com/what-we-mean-w… Motaz Attalla Garfield Foundation

A beautifully written portrait of many things together.

(The Nation of) Georgia 🤝 Port Said

I would like to propose a name for when you get yanked from a Zoom breakout mid-sentence and find yourself back in the main room, interrupted, disoriented, disheveled: Exzoomed 👍🏽 or 👎🏽?

My first encounter with NFTs was an overheard response to an apology at the Sporting Club in Alex on a balmy hormone-addled Thurs night in 1995 واصرفها فين سوري دي؟ “And where exactly do I cash this ‘sorry’?” The apology was ultimately deemed not fungible and a fight ensued.

This is the most radical, life-affirming and, frankly, civilized ‘education’ innovation I’ve seen in a long while. Another reason that public libraries are IMO America’s best institution.

- بس كده هتبطل تشيل حديد - ولا ferric معايا