Tag: organizing

  • Why our response to overwhelming doom isn’t working now

    Why our response to overwhelming doom isn’t working now

    The challenge of the moment is capitalizing on our overwhelm and our isolation. The solution is to spend more time together.

  • What do we do now?

    What do we do now?

    When we are stuck in a fog and don’t know what we’re supposed to do, how do we see our way out of it? What will actually help us?

  • simple, useful, or beautiful

    simple, useful, or beautiful

    Many of us think that organizing our life is a perfect balance rather than an impossible pursuit. It’s neither.

  • Setting up my Bullet Journal for 2022

    Setting up my Bullet Journal for 2022

    People all over the world celebrate New Year’s Day in a variety of ways. I, like many other nerds, prepared my Bullet Journal

  • Choosing to Bullet Journal

    Choosing to Bullet Journal

    As a disorganized, aloof leader, the bullet journal gives me something no productivity system can: the freedom to make it mine. I’m not what you would call organized. I make piles. Books, papers, emails: literal and virtual. While I’ve always known this about myself, I rarely accept it. I push myself to be a person…

  • ‘Rules for Revolutionaries’ and for Leaders

    ‘Rules for Revolutionaries’ and for Leaders

    At once, Becky Bond and Zack Exley’s book, Rules for Revolutionaries: How Big Organizing Can Change Everything is both manifesto and history. It mines the revolutionary approach to campaigning they pioneered for Sen. Bernie Sanders in 2015 and early 2016 to build a template for organizing and campaigning in the future. They invite people to recognize how…