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A brilliant long (long!) read by Thomas Morton-Collings on the Rolling Stone "500 Best Albums" list. Do you have 500 top albums? Plus a first-person reflection on working at the U.S. Capitol during Jan. 6 and Srdja Popovic on humor as an effective protest strategy. All via your new favorite, the Medium Newsletter: https://lnkd.in/eftNayDC

Calling academics, scholars, and students! Come learn about writing on Medium tomorrow (1/29) at our Academics Hour, noon ET over Zoom. More here: https://lnkd.in/emVh2St9

Calling academics, scholars, and students! Come learn about writing on Medium tomorrow (1/29) at our Academics Hour, noon ET over Zoom. More here: https://lnkd.in/emVh2St9

Arjun S. breaks down exactly why inspiring ideas are rarely incremental. Plus insights from Caroline Sinders, Kara Stern, Ph.D., and more in today's Medium Newsletter. https://lnkd.in/eDwQtpiH

You need this for your meetings next week: Bobby Powers gets deep into the "Six Hats" framework for better meetings. Via your new favorite newsletter: https://lnkd.in/e2SQ9hnk

A must read: Mark G. Shrime gets deep on concrete ways to make better decisions. Via the Medium Newsletter, the single best newsletter on the internet: https://lnkd.in/g4SeGCkP

Insights from Jessica Steier, DrPH, PMP on the Red No. 3 ban. Plus wisdom from David Loewen, Nabeel S. Qureshi and more. Via https://lnkd.in/eixe9_XF

"𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘄𝗲 𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗻 𝗮𝘄𝗮𝘆 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲’𝘀 𝗽𝗮𝗶𝗻, 𝘄𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘆 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗵𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝗮𝗻 𝗼𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘀 𝘂𝘀. 𝗟𝗼𝘀𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗴𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗳 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗮𝗹 𝗵𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀. 𝗜𝘁 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗳𝗲𝗲𝗹𝘀 𝘀𝗮𝗳𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗼 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗹𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝗿𝘀𝗵 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆, 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗶𝘁 𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗲𝗹𝘀𝗲, 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗯𝗲 𝘂𝘀. 𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝘁 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗽𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘁, 𝗶𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗯𝗲." This is an excerpt from a new piece I wrote and published on Medium titled, 'Grief Takes a Village.' While grief support and education have come a long way over the years, the reality is we still live in a culture that struggles to sit with people in their pain without looking away or trying to fix it. And grief needs to be witnessed—not fixed. Over the past nearly two weeks, as fires have ravaged homes, businesses, and entire lives & livelihoods in the Los Angeles area, this concept has shown up in the form of bright-siding (a term I first learned while training with David Kessler, FACHE): "It's just stuff." "You can rebuild." "At least you got out safely." In these impossibly hard moments, what people really need is validation and acknowledgement: "This absolutely sucks." "I'm sorry this is happening." "I wish you didn't have to go through this." Our discomfort-averse society loves a good comeback story. They love to praise "resilience" and "overcoming" and "moving on" from hardship. The problem is, this leaves no room to acknowledge the stories of people who are struggling, who are getting through without getting over, who are moving forward instead of moving on. It leaves no room to hold space for the "messy middle" (shout-out to Brené Brown for this terminology), and the reality and nuance of life & loss. And it overlooks a central truth of grief: it is a journey, not a destination. In grief, and in life...we're all just walking each other home. #grief #griefsupport #griefeducation #griefawareness

Join Carin-Isabel Knoop, Rebecca Ruth Gould and Enrique Dans for Academics Hour on January 29 at noon ET. They'll share their experience and insights on about academic and scholarly writing on Medium. https://lnkd.in/emVh2St9

danah boyd and Ryan Broderick on the end of moderation on Meta and what it means; and Robert Stribley on what it's like to delete your Facebook account from a UX perspective. Plus insights from Sergei Savvov on "small language models" and Caryn Marooney on big communications moments. https://lnkd.in/eAf4TRSb