An excellent primer on the racial politics of time and toxic productivity in non-profits (and the world more generally). Enjoy.
📢 📢 I wrote a two-parter about non-profits, urgency cultures, toxic productivity and the racial politics of time. With thanks to the 221 people who filled in the survey which informed this article 🙏🏾 PS Share with your funders! medium.com/@leila-billing/ti…
ALT Tile says 'Time, Urgency, Toxic Productivity and Why we need to claim our right to time. Black text in varying sizes on orange and pink background
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📢 📢 Non-profit friends! I’m writing an article about urgency and how non-profits approach time management. I’m keen to explore how we can reimagine time!
✍️🏾If you have a spare 5 minutes (!), I’d be grateful if you’d fill out or share this survey. forms.gle/dQskn4EzvdUbF41y6
This Sault multiple album drop is 🔥🔥🔥
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This is so a reaction, and so absurd. I've been called 'f***ing foreigner' on Trinity Street, right at the genteel heart of oh so genteel Cambridge, by an elderly gentlement in hat and suit. The gaslighting is worse than the original episode.
My wife was racially abused this morning while walking the dog in Cambridge. Not the first time it's happened. Whenever she talks about this, the reaction she gets is 'really, in Cambridge??'. Yes, really, in Cambridge. And everywhere else in the UK too. Open your eyes. – at Cambridge, England
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Yes. We have the receipts. Sorry this happened to you, Leila, leaves you feeling helpless and sick.
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Really digging the spa pumpkin at @PhilzCoffee.
ALT Pumpkin painted with a face mask and a towel on top
The Tintin French-English/English-French dictionary is absolutely full of useful day to day phrases. Sadly (and entirely predictably) much of it is unfit to reprint.
‘The Bear’ is very well done and well acted but, honestly, do we need another show about men who just need to get some therapy and call their mum?
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Security tags on cheese and butter in my local shop. As #CostOfLivingCrisis bites get ready for gov to start pushing narratives about ‘heroic’ volunteers & food banks in a bid to frame these as complementary rather than oppositional to govt efforts. Don’t be fooled - 1/PA
ALT Packets of butter with security tags attached
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Working on feminist leadership has taught me a lot about purity, perfection... and trauma. So I wrote about it: bit.ly/3R9forq
If Liz Truss is worried about productivity maybe she should have a word with the people who decided to use shire horses to transport tonnes of flowers to a big compost heap.
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What do Financial Times readers think of the mini-budget? This is the most-recommended comment on our news story:
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Here we are at Cambridge University- doing our best to spread @sribatli ‘s work on feminist leadership far and wide. And bringing subversive politics to the academy and incoming scholars. @we_are_fl @nataliebrook @AForringerBeal
ALT Picture of a woman on a university stage speaking about Srilatha Batliwala’s work. Pic of batliwala on PowerPoint
Spinning the ETH 'Merge' as a net good for carbon emissions pre-supposes that ETH generates enough value in the world to justify emitting *anything*.
I love "Measure What Matters" but I've always been troubled by the 'Indy 500' OKR example. 🧵
Doerr states that "completion of all [KRs] _must_ result in attainment of the objective. If not, it's not an OKR."
The trouble with framing OKRs as, in effect, guarantees, is that doing business is far too nuanced for this to work. Better to treat them as a tool for increasing focus, ambition and accountability.