02 April 2024

The Story of Technological Progress is Not a Given: A Review of Power and Progress

The cultural sector has to change its ideas about progress and technology.

06 February 2024

The View from Up There: a Review of The Future of the Museum: 28 Dialogues by András Szántó

A 2020 leader-focused book on the future of museums is more than meets the eye.

09 January 2024

Museum Luddites, Revisited: A Review of Blood in the Machine by Brian Merchant

A new book connect the Luddite uprising of the 1810s to current tech-directed work.

05 December 2023

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

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

28 November 2023

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.

07 November 2023

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?

21 July 2023

Links of the Week: July 21, 2023: Quarter Dump

The jury is still out on the future of workplaces.

18 July 2023

Checking out Museum Human's Second Quarter of 2023

The second quarter of the year was a time for Museum Human to up its interview game.

04 April 2023

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?

03 March 2023

Links of the Week: March 3, 2023: Minding the Gaps

Sometimes it's what's missing that defines our workplaces.

10 January 2023

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

These media have a lot of messages

29 July 2022

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

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

21 June 2022

The Dawn of a New Org Culture?

More thoughts about The Dawn of Everything and lessons it holds for museum org culture

05 April 2022

Museum Human's First Quarter 2022 Review

How has the first quarter of 2022 gone according to plan for Museum Human?

06 May 2020

The Museum at the End of the World: "I Didn't Mean It Literally" Edition

What should museums do in the apocalypse? Stop talking about leadership, realism, and the new normal, to start.