Links of the Week: April 14, 2023: New Chat, Same as the Old Chat
Our culture has been primed to acquiesce to generative content without a fight.
Decision-Making Often Goes Wrong Before It Even Begins
Distributed decision-making is the real test of progressive workplaces.
Links of the Week: April 7, 2023: Gifts to Our Future Selves
The best gift to yourself is one that others get to share in.
Looking Back on Museum Human's First Quarter of 2023
It was easier than I thought to get back to twice-weekly posting, but is that all there is?
Links of the Week: March 31, 2023: Museums Keep On Keeping On?
Museums are busier figuring out their future, but do they understand their present?
The Museum Doctors: Interview with Jose Antonio Gordillo Martorell of Cultural Inquiry
What if museums didn't just listen to children and communities, but did what they were told?
Links of the Week: March 24, 2023: What It All Means
Turns out that searching for the meaning of all things requires a looser org structure than you'd expect.
Wrong, Revisited: Museum Worker Pain Points
Can we be wrong and right about museum-field pain points at the same time?
Links of the Week: March 17, 2023: The Brittle
This week's links include the polycrisis, transparency, care vs fascism, and what museums should be doing about it all.
Museums and the X-day Workweek
A shorter workweek is under discussion, but are orgs still desperately avoiding real flexibility?
Links of the Week: March 10, 2023: Chatting Ourselves to Death?
Everyone's got an opinion about chatbots, but is anyone doing anything about them?
AI, ChatGPT, and Museum Work
The questions for museum workers about AI shouldn't be what to use it for, but who will use it and why.
Links of the Week: March 3, 2023: Minding the Gaps
Sometimes it's what's missing that defines our workplaces.
Can Emergent Skills Save the Museum Sector? A chat with Dr. Lauren Vargas
Museums say they want better community relationships but need better emergent skills first.
Links of the Week: February 24, 2023: Getting Back to Museums
Museums and their workers have a world full of problems to deal with.