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The co-op is doing awesome charity work through the Catalyst fund. We designed resources and a series of workshops to help these charities deal with the reality of going 100% remote and online with their staff and programming.
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We also kicked off our Seamless Government pilot program this week and had auhmazing sessions with folks from European governments. The second session was about Inclusivity and Policies of Trust. Since we haven’t had time to write a post, I’m going to invite you to steal wildly from Emma Irwin, who recently published the most epic “this is how to do D&I” post ever.
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Speaking of Diversity and Inclusion, I met up with a Greenpeace colleague I hadn’t seen in a while after we were asked to run a session on D&I in Tech for an upcoming internal GP meeting. I linked to this session I did last year at Open Source Summit Europe...a digital version of the privilege walk sounds like it could be fun.

Maybe I'm self-controlled

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I searched "meditation rage" thinking about how some folks like to pretend they have it all under control but actually they're just lying to themselves. Garden gnomes DO fill me with rage, and this one is meditating, so...Photo by dorota dylka on Unsplash
Last week I used a Carrie Fisher quote about her body being a brain bag, and then I included an image of Brain Bag brand backpacks, which I’d never heard of. Luckily, a journalist who for some reason reads this moldy trash of a newsletter*, sent me a note to say that for years he sent his reporters and photographers to Iraq and Afghanistan with a Brain Bag and that I should definitely read their company philosophy.

*self deprecation is one of my strong suits.

I do what my readers tell me because they’re usually right about stuff.

"We believe that there’s a time for action and a time for non-action. This is to say that when non-action is a conscious choice, it is an action in and of itself"

I completely lost my self control this week. Several times. Is anyone really surprised? I do my very best not to blame my behavior on my neurodivergence, but FFS y’all, the world is a friggin mess right now. My coping mechanisms aren’t as efficient as they used to be, I’m mostly on the distressed side of stress. Despite some slips in civility, it would appear that the fact that I talk to myself, have several alter egos and time travel to my future self on a regular basis means I'm NOT crazy but rather have incredible self control. Indeed wonderful news for me.

Maybe I need help?

It’s a short one this week. I’ve, again, not managed all the things I wanted to. I haven’t checked in on my open source contributions in weeks, I’m a year behind on starting my next book and I haven’t dead-headed the dahlias (ohhh good name for a band: Deadheaded Dahlias). There are things taking up too much of my brain space.

However, Confucius was 56 years old when he left his government job and started wandering and seriously spreading his philosophical perspective. It would seem that I still have time.

What are you doing? Do you want to give me feedback? How are you liking the lazy link format? What about that new section about work? Am I funny? Are you pleased? Do you have a filter on me that automatically reroutes me to your trash? Are you surprised I figured that out? It's ok, I don't mind, I autotrash it too 🤣

Laura, dear, this is Laura from the future and I just wanted to let you know that those date palm seeds you've been trying to grow will never sprout. Just give up.
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