Robert J Weisberg
I work on a bit of everything in museum content. I find human solutions to tech problems. I geek out on workflow. No, really. I learn and teach and write everything down.
Museum Org Culture Is Causing a Mental Health Crisis
Museums make mental health resources available to workers but ignore how their own org culture contributes to the problem.
Museums Can't End Projects Without a Map
Museums have no problem starting new work. Why is ending old work so difficult to get right?
Links of the Week: April 13, 2021: Chain of Fools
Museum workers in tech areas of the field have been hearing about the blockchain for years. Who knew it would get all monetizey?
Links of the Week: April 6, 2021: Lies o' The Times ...
What destructive stories are we in the museum field told—by others and ourselves?
Deaccessioning and Museum Organizational Culture
What does the deaccessioning controversy reveal about the place of museum workers in the organization?
Links of the Week: March 30, 2021: Trust, Who Do You …
Organizational trust in museums doesn't just happen. It takes a lot of work—and a desire to be trusted.
Busyness, Revisited
The cult of busyness is the museum field's daily expression of weaponized and exploited time.
Links of the Week: March 23, 2021: Are U Capable?
This week Museum Human looks at capabilities (not just skills). Which matter more for a museum?
Links of the Week, March 16, 2021: This One's Optimistic
This week's links include optimistic leaders, maintaining cultures in hybrid workplaces, WFH burnout, and a tech titan reinventing the intranet.
Links of the Week for March 9, 2021: The Return
A old feature returns to Museum Human …
How to Make Museum Work Flexible, not Fauxible
Flexible work is not just schedules and policies. It's roles, skills, mindsets, and more. Otherwise it's fake flexibility: fauxibility.
Against the Museum Smartocracy
Museums aren't just meritocracies. They are organizations that identify with smarts above all else. (Yes, even money.)