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.

Complexity, Simplicity, and Collapse, Part 3: You Are Here

Museums use hierarchy to deal with complexity, but confronting collapse requires something else.

Links of the Week: December 8, 2023: Museum Preppers Edition

Optimists and pessimists, like people on many opposite sides, have more in common than they think.

Complexity, Simplicity, and Collapse, Part 2: Vibepocalyse Now

Is facing up to our dire reality really just a matter of vibes?

Links of the Week: December 1, 2023: We Can't Grow Our Way Out of This

Climate and societal collapse need to be viewed as a beginning, not an end.

Complexity, Simplicity, and Collapse, Part 1: A Review of Museums and Societal Collapse

A short book with a simple message brings in much about a complex world.

Links of the Week: November 24, 2023: Hybrid for the Holidays

The fact that nothing is moving regarding remote and hybrid work doesn't mean that the issue isn't front and center in our working lives.

Awareness of Self and Others in Museum Work

If we don't have the time for awareness of ourselves, how can museum workers serve audiences and society?

Links of the Week: November 17, 2023: Everything Everywhere

After a virtual conference considered the Future of Museums, can we find common ground between civics, tech, and worker wellbeing?

Can Museums Prioritize Civics, Wellbeing, and Technology All at Once?

A brief virtual conference made a game attempt to link civics, in a partisan age, staff wellbeing, and technology.

Links of the Week: November 10, 2023: Not My Problem, Give Me Some

Are museum workers ready to help society confront hard choices?

We Are All Standing on the Edge

As we teeter on the edges of so many problems, can we take in all that we're facing?

Links of the Week: November 3, 2023: MAP Your Museum's Culture

Do museums have the organizational culture to tackle real problems in real ways?

People's Goals and Progress Space—A Chat with Kyle Bowen of Museums As Progress

Instead of obsessing about institutional growth, museums should think more about people's progress.

Links of the Week: October 27, 2023: The Epic Ethical Issues of AI

AI is a technology and a product but also an all-consuming ethical dilemma.

Is AI the Right or Wrong Solution to the Right or Wrong Problem?

We finish up—for now—our month of AI-related post asking four big questions for museum workers.