Links of the Week: September 24, 2021: Museums and Misinformation
Misinformation isn't just politics. Museum org culture plays a role in false workplace narratives.
Links of the Week: September 17, 2021: The Great Exhausting
The Great Resignation is here, but is there a deeper issue lurking in the museum field?
Links of the Week: August 12, 2021: Workplace Return or Rapture?
What if the get-back-to-the-building museum leaders are the ones risking irrelevance?
Links of the Week: August 5, 2021: Bubble Bath
Times of uncertainty breed bubbles from greed and desperation. What do these mean for museums?
Links of the Week: July 29, 2021: Time is it After Us
The unequal distribution of time is a museum-field tragedy
Links of the Week: July 22, 2021: Tech Race to Space
Are museum workers really waiting on spacefaring tech billionaires to save us?
Links of the Week: July 15, 2021: Paradoxes All the Way Down
Museums are adopting an attitude of relentless cautious optimism to mask uncertainty and paradox.
Links of the Week: July 8, 2021: The Race Still to Run
Are museums really treating racism in the field as a problem requiring transformation?
Links of the Week: July 1, 2021: Fear Itself
What about remote work has museum leaders so afraid?
Links of the Week: June 24, 2021: After Juneteenth
Museums' belief in an unchangeable model is blocking the hard work of addressing institutional racism.
Links of the Week: June 17, 2021: Mindsets, revisited
Museums are full of mindsets, like most organizations. What behaviors are being excused?
Links of the Week: June 10, 2021: Where Will You Work?
Has fear of an empty workplace supplanted promised org humanism and flexibility?
Links of the Week: June 3, 2021: Museums, Docs, and AI
Museums are reopening, but are they ready for tough questions about purpose, membership, and AI?
Links of the Week: May 27, 2021: Get Back …
Museums, like many institutions, are pushing for remote workers to come back to the workplace. Why … and how?
Links of the Week: May 20, 2021: Reflections of …
A couple of people—and orgs—I follow have been in a remembering mood.