Links of the Week: November 26, 2024: Looking Back to Look Ahead, Post-Election Edition

What's keeping us from learning anything from recent events?

Do Museums Need to Go Bigger Than Just Minimally Viable?

Is there such a thing as too many MVPs?

After the App Is Gone: Museum-Field Conversation Post Bird

Museum professionals are despairing about conversations without a certain social media platform. But is the issue bigger than just one app?

The "fAIt" Accompli of AI in Museums

Is the rush to AI obscuring a dangerous techno-solutionism in museums?

Links of the Week: June 28, 2024: Project Manage This

Museums are ignoring the need for skills and culture as they rush towards a future they define in strategic plans.

Links of the Week: May 31, 2024: Think about the Future

Museums as institutions don't collectively ponder their futures enough.

The Top Museum Human Posts of 2023

Museum Human readers in 2023 enjoyed interviews almost as much as reading about quiet quitting.

Links of the Week: December 15, 2023: Collapsagideon Time

Is there room for different approaches to—or even understandings of—societal collapse?

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 10, 2023: Not My Problem, Give Me Some

Are museum workers ready to help society confront hard choices?

Links of the Week: September 29, 2023: Finding Abundance

Can we choose abundance amongst all the scarcity out there?