More Than Just a Good I.D.E.A.

There's a lot of talk going on in the political sphere about equity and diversity initiatives, and there's a lot of work going on in both educational and corporate settings around diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility. This post is less about the talk (although I hope it might inform it in a useful way), and more about the work. To begin with, let's operate under the assumption that everyone working in this area is approaching it with the best of intentions (even when their organizational motivation is profit), and that the biggest issues that arise in this work are actually results of bungling the implementation. With all of that in mind, I want you to consider the possibility that the biggest issue starts with the fact that we keep putting the letters in the wrong order.

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Neither Here nor There

Every passage is thus, a place unto itself, a thing that connects, but is also disconnected. Each moment is its own molecule, each transition its own ellipsis...

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Try, Try Again

We don’t like to talk about failure much. It’s understandable really. Failure is kind of a downer as topics go, and at least in America we’re fundamentally obsessed with success and improvement as the underlying themes of life and society. We’re a pretty unbalanced culture if you look at it from say a more Taoist slant where you need to embrace an understanding of darkness (and know its value) to stand in the light and appreciate what it has to offer. In America we love to celebrate success, but we don’t even like to acknowledge failure. Even the Silicon Valley mantra of “fail fast” isn’t so much an embrace of real failure as a way to reassure the investor class that the gambles they make will pay off eventually in the next start-up.

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Blank Pages

As all writers know, the blank page can either be an open invitation that offers you the opportunity to pour forth expression from the fount of creativity that resides in your very soul, or an impenetrable brick wall that appears rather suddenly in your path and blocks any forward progress whatsoever. Be it page, canvas, tape, file, or any other medium, confrontation with these empty spaces is an inextricable part of any creative process.

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Some Gatekeeping

Life is not a game. Governance is not a game. Education is not a game, and Love is definitely not a game.

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