Jenna Guarascio

Data is always an abstraction of reality based on underlying assumptions as to how to categorize the unstructured phenomena of the real world.

Taking notes, I’ve come to realize, is a form of collecting. I’ve never been interested in collecting physical things, but when it comes to beautiful literary quotes, I have thousands of notebook entries.

It's a common misconception that burnouts come from hard work.  Burnout comes from a felt loss of control and/or impact.  Remember that you can burn out employees (or yourself) with little to no work.

When people ask you for decisions, use the opportunity to remind them that they are the expert and ask what context they need from you to make their recommendation.

our thinking and acting toward the future must challenge the systems that would seek to short-circuit the very future in which we hope to prosper. As author and philosopher Bonnitta Roy would say, we must “dream ourselves awake.”

“Right now, we have a crisis of leadership because we have a lot of un-whole people running the show. We can’t fault those people...they played the game as it was meant to be played. But, we can do better. And we must... We have a system built from a wounded, fragmented collective psyche that rewards unconscious, fragmented actions. It’s winner tak... See more

The first is from my friend Sabrina Meherally, the Founder of the inclusive design and imagination firm Pause and Effect:

Complex and non-prescriptive approaches to change, innovation, or design can often be invalidated through the assertion that they “sound nice” in theory, but “lack practicality”. In these cases, I am inclined to draw awareness t

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On the other end of the spectrum is where we experience the “Pull of the Future,” or the intentional thinking and acting around aspirational and transformational futures. As you might have imagined, this part of the spectrum aligns with the emerging novelty and anticipatory imagination of “Ontological Unpredictability.” Here — where the very nature... See more