I always wonder if Luft and Ingham found as much humor in their matrix as many of us who use the concepts do. But this joke is beautiful
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I always wonder if Luft and Ingham found as much humor in their matrix as many of us who use the concepts do. But this joke is beautiful
I wrote about the first national book banning bill, which effectively seeks to erase trans people. At the end I include a link to let your reps know that you oppose this bill and all it stands for. lithub.com/why-we-must-...
For quality and systems folks, Laloux is a useful irritant. He asks what happens if you design everything—governance, HR, budgeting—to be congruent with your stated values, not just your latest continuous improvement project.
Frederic Laloux is interesting because he treats org design as an evolutionary question, not a reorg exercise. “Reinventing Organizations” asks: what structures become possible if we actually trust people and design for wholeness and purpose, not just control?
All three feel very compatible with Deming → Senge → Baldrige, but they force you to confront how messy the real system is.
Gerd Gigerenzer on heuristics and the “adaptive toolbox” in real decision-making
Amy Edmondson on psychological safety and failure as learning
Dave Snowden on complexity, sense-making, and why linear playbooks keep breaking in nonlinear systems
Love how you put that — the best frameworks surface how work actually flows instead of adding another layer of theater.
From the last decade, I’d add people pushing on uncertainty and learning:
Picking one more recent author from that list who leaders almost never actually read, I’d go with Gerd Gigerenzer. His work on heuristics and bounded rationality is a badly needed antidote to spreadsheet‑driven fantasy decision‑making.
Really appreciate this. That Deming → Senge line feels like one continuous argument about variation, learning, and responsibility that we’ve chopped into separate “methods.”
Totally agree — Deming→Senge is one continuous thread that gets treated like separate tribes. Most overdue to *really* read: Follett on power, Dewey on inquiry, Beer on viable systems. Schein on culture right after that. Who’s on your list?
Trying very hard not to drop everything and spin up a Nights Black Agents Burn-mode mini-campaign about Dionysian, riot-stoking Maenad vamps and their broken ritual sites now. (karloff-shelf.blogspot.com/2026/02/camp...)
My dog Ollie, a black and tan colored beagle chihuahua mix, sniffing the ground next to an enormous snow bank in our front yard
My dog Ollie, a black and tan colored beagle chihuahua mix, resting on our couch with his chin resting on a pillow
Took a photo of one of the snow banks in our front yard, with Ollie for scale. Then I took a photo of him napping, because it was cute
A link to Andrew’s website: rokuropottery.com He teaches classes, but he also sells his work, and is sometimes available for commissions
A round terracotta casserole dish with a wide mouth and narrow base, perfect for making cassoulet. It is glazed a mustard yellow with some lighter yellow. It has a spout in front, and handles on either side.
The same dish (A round terracotta casserole dish with a wide mouth and narrow base, perfect for making cassoulet. It is glazed a mustard yellow with some lighter yellow. It has a spout in front, and handles on either side.) as viewed from the side.
The same dish (A round terracotta casserole dish with a wide mouth and narrow base, perfect for making cassoulet. It is glazed a mustard yellow with some lighter yellow. It has a spout in front, and handles on either side.) as viewed from the top, so you can see the interior, which has irregular streaks of lighter color
The same dish again (A round terracotta casserole dish with a wide mouth and narrow base, perfect for making cassoulet. It is glazed a mustard yellow with some lighter yellow. It has a spout in front, and handles on either side.) but a close up of one of the handles, next to an Imbolc oracle card called Casserole, which features an illustration of individual dishes of casserole
After making cassoulet and reading that it’s traditionally made in a clay pot, I had the brilliant idea to commission one from our pottery teacher, Andrew Jacoff of Rokuro Pottery! It’s frankly gorgeous, and I can’t wait to try it out in the oven!
Manufactured doubt on the safety of vaccines has led to trying to fast track a “study” in Guinea-Bissau “testing” their efficacy by depriving infants of access to the Hep B vaccine.
the Tuskegee experiment is not just a historical monstrosity, it’s a warning.
A red hand knit hat with a ribbed brim, pointed top, and a tassel.
My husband (a white, middle aged man with greying hair and beard, and glasses) wearing the Melt the ICE hat. He’s also wearing a green sweater, so it looks rather Christmassy
Started a Melt the ICE hat, then realized I had a book (Norwegian Handknits by Sue Flanders and Janine Kosel) with a pattern for Nisse hats, so this is kind of an amalgamation of the two. 🧶 Thanks to @jeremiahgenest.bsky.social for modeling
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There has been some discourse about performativity among people who don't appreciate the importance of aesthetics in social movements.
No need to imagine. The country incarcerates children as young as 9 years old daily in youth prisons and jails. Those children are routinely sexually and physically assaulted and also emotionally tortured. They are fed terrible food and given barely any education. This country has done this for yrs.
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Katherine Eban is one of my favorite reporters. But then i’m a sucker for someone who makes such a big part of their reporting my industry
We all fell in love with cassoulet when we were in Toulouse so i’m very excited we are making out own
2025 was a great year for horror fiction and 2026 is shaping up to top it! The 🧵 below lists my most anticipated books by authors of horror & weird lit, but MANY more are coming out this year! @emilyhughes.bsky.social maintains the master list at readjumpscares.com/2026-new-hor...
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