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How to Be More Agentic

"... leadership is produced collectively in the community, not the individual. The individual’s responsibility is to be ready and willing to show up, serve, and then, most importantly, stand back. Leadership for this era is not a role or a set of traits; it’s a zone of interrelational process. Step in, step out."

Nora Bateson • Nora Bateson — The Paradox of Agency

In the long run, scientists who still subscribe to the basic emotion method are very likely helping to create the universality that they believe they are discovering.

Lisa Feldman Barrett • How Emotions Are Made

Network science, and its related suite of analytical methods, prioritizes social structure, rejecting the assumption implicit in much quantitative social science work that individual attributes are what matter when accounting for social outcomes.

Moya Bailey • #HashtagActivism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice

Rebecca Solnit’s 2004 book Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities. In the book, Solnit writes about how the urgency of the political moment (then, the Bush Administration and the so-called “War on Terror”) calls for letting go of any fixed ideology.

“To be anti doctrinal is to open yourself up to new and unexpected alliances, to new... See more

you can estimate the quality of someone’s opinions about large scale social systems by evaluating their experience as a small scale organiser if you can’t create harmonious relationships in a collective of 15 ppl, why should I trust your opinion about policing or governance?

Richard D. Bartlett

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She’s a Nobel Prize–winning economist who has identified eight features necessary to maintain a stable community property resource.1 This wisdom applies to many of the communities you’ll grow. While Ostrom’s work overlaps with ideas I have already shared, it focuses more on long-term community management than on creating belonging and is worth expl

Charles Vogl • The Art of Community: Seven Principles for Belonging

Moreover, our culture of specialization conflicts with something most of us intuitively recognize, but which career advisers are only beginning to understand: we each have multiple selves. … We have complex, multi-faceted experiences, interests, values and talents, which might mean that we could also find fulfillment as a web designer, or a communi... See more

Maria Popova • How to Find Fulfilling Work

I may personally hope to be a warm, life-affirming person with strong social bonds, but given the rage that customarily greets women who don’t feel put on the planet to be earth mothers, giving trees, community glue, or moral consciences, their icy or insurgent rejection of such roles can be a bracing, doxa-rearranging pleasure.