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.
Links of the Week: February 2, 2024: Can't Pass on the Future
Museums and organizations haven't figured out the future of worker well-being. Is it beyond their organizational ability?
The Well-Being Dilemma for Museum Workers
Do museum workers need to take charge of their own well-being—and that of their institutions?
Links of the Week: January 26, 2024: Finding Forward
Can museums and their workers move in the same direction at the same time?
What Do Museums Need to Do to Move Forward for Their Workers?
Museums being honest know that equity, fairness, and justice are organizational problems. Are they avoiding the necessary solutions?
Links of the Week: January 19, 2024: Museum Workers Come in from the Cold?
What is to be done if the "fall" of museum work is just a part of a greater malaise?
Is the Fall of the Museum Workplace a Matter of Time?
Is 2024 the year that museum work stops making sense, for good?
Links of the Week: January 12, 2024: Blood in the System
Discussions about technology are about so much more than machines.
Museum Luddites, Revisited: A Review of Blood in the Machine by Brian Merchant
A new book connect the Luddite uprising of the 1810s to current tech-directed work.
Links of the Week: January 5, 2024: Digging in the Link Pile, part 3
We finish up a three-week link dump with AI and decision-making.
What Might Be in Store for Museum Human in 2024
Museum Human considers paid-tier and discoverability dilemmas, among others.
Links of the Week: December 29, 2023: Digging in the Link Pile, part 2 (and finding AI)
AI was clearly the term of the year—check out some links to see how it played out.
The Top Museum Human Themes of 2023
What did readers get in 105 posts of Museum Human this year?
Links of the Week: December 22, 2023: Digging in the Link Pile, part 1
There's no shortage of articles about AI, so we'll start with anything but.
The Top Museum Human Posts of 2023
Museum Human readers in 2023 enjoyed interviews almost as much as reading about quiet quitting.