The Resignation Might Be Great, but is It Real?

How the Great Resignation, Quiet Quitting, and Hybrid/Remote work interrelate

Links of the Week: January 13, 2023: All the Pretty Trojan Horses

We laugh off some spectacles and collapses to our peril

What I've Been Reading, Watching, and Listening to Lately

These media have a lot of messages

Links of the Week: January 6, 2023: R U (Still) Masking?

The new year starts with a lot of links but a lot less masking …

Returning with the New Year (and the Same Old Concerns)

After a long Museum Human break, I'm considering some major changes for the site in 2023

The People of Museum Tech Tell Their Stories

The history of museum technology is made up of many stories—two museum pros let museum workers tell them.

Links of the Week: September 16, 2022: The Museum Multiverse

Tech isn't helping museums' problems with alternate realities.

Links of the Week: September 9, 2022: Digital and the Museum

The digital revolution only papered over workplace problems.

September Opener: What Does Digital Mean to Museums?

Museums' issues with digital and technology reflect a greater struggle for identity and meaning.

Links of the Week: August 31, 2022: The System

Considering their educational pedigrees, museum workers aren't used to thinking of their institutions as systems.

Links of the Week: August 26, 2022: More on the Long View

Taking a long view without centering humanity is no view at all.

The Good, the Bad, and the Maybe in Museum Work

Are we in the museum field filling our social airwaves with too much bad sector news?

Links of the Week: August 12, 2022: The Fairness Spin

Are efforts to make museums fairer workplaces—including with DEAI—just going in circles?

Links of the Week: August 5, 2022: Just Eff It?

The dividing line between "just eff it" and "no effing way" has shifted, and museum workers have taken note.

Links of the Week: July 29, 2022: Going Deep

When a story is ending, what needs to change—the story or the storytellers?