But if I squint a little and set the fear aside, even at the risk of losing a few of you here, it’s a remarkable metaphor. It may be the best one I’ve found for the kind of cultural change I’ve been writing about for years now. Continue reading Changing Lead Into Gold: A lesson in alchemy?
The critics who say Ted Lasso doesn’t know what to do with women are half right. Ted doesn’t. Not yet. That’s the story. The show is asking a question a lot of us have been fumbling with for a decade: how do you show up for people whose lives you don’t fully understand, without making it about you? Continue reading Ted Lasso Doesn’t Know What to Do With Women. Neither Did I.
This book is my attempt to name what’s happening and point toward what might be possible. But it can’t do anything sitting in a warehouse. It needs to get into hands. Your hands. And then the hands of the people you know who are running out of room. Continue reading 34 Generous People (and Counting): A Room to Be Human Update
The workers of 1886 didn’t get the eight-hour day by wishing. They got it by demanding it together, out loud. A century and a half later, the demand is due for renewal — before the next great wave of productivity gets distributed the way the last one did. Continue reading The Holiday We Gave Away
