Produced by Chicago Public Schools, this is “a toolkit to help foster productive conversations about race and civil disobedience.”
Twitter post from Chicago Public Schools announcing toolkit
Action
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Powerful statement on racism in his life…
Just hear me out.
Via Dave Winer, I am going to start following Patrick Skinner, it sounds like he understands both the problems and how to solve them…
Patrick Skinner spent a decade running counterterrorism operations overseas for the CIA. He worked in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Jordan; met with kings and presidents; rose through the ranks. But he came to believe he was part of the problem, that the very premise of the work was flawed. So he came home, and joined the police force in Savannah, Georgia, where he grew up.
I first learned about Skinner in a New Yorker profile. Then a friend mentioned his Twitter feed to me: There, Skinner reflects, in a thoughtful, continual stream, on the work of policing, the importance of treating your neighbors like neighbors, the daily work of deescalation, and the behavior of his menagerie of pets.
In 2020 all Americans are deciding whether to be on the side of the race-baiting President Trump , or the American people who are protesting to make our democracy inclusive for black Americans. George W. Bush made the right choice: “Achieving justice for all is the duty of all,” writes Dorothy Brown. Which side will you be on?
A moving article, glad to see GWBush stepping in…
Takeaway: work constantly to create alliances with others
Extensive site with tools/processes on building skills of investigation.
I attribute much of my success in 2019 to the practices of:
- writing to develop my thoughts
- learning to focus
Starting off the year 2020 – My Three Words
As I came to work this morning, I began to think about how to start the New Year. Over the Christmas break, I did some listening/reading at Sean McCabe’s website on writing (It All Starts With Writing, podcast episodes 39, 139, 303). I would like to do more writing in 2020. I also listened to an Akimbo episode on “showing your work“. Harold Jarche (Seek-Sense-Share) and Dave Winer (Narrate Your Work) are other views on this topic.
Other thoughts that I had:
- If you keep doing the same things, you will get the same results
- Failing to plan means planning to fail
After this reflection, I think the three words I would like to guide my year (following Ron Chester’s example) is – Read Write Help.
How can we work together on the open web and on software development
I have been in several conversations in the last week (voice and email) where the concept of “working together” in software development came up, and several threads emerged:
- how the original developer doesn’t/shouldn’t have to do everything – others can contribute (to me, a key concept in open source)
- how interested/engaged users can be an important force in the direction in which a software application or tool goes forward
Dave Winer has written about this many times:
- The magic of working together
- Key concept of the open web: working together
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Working together means this: If someone else has a good-enough way to do something, rather than reinvent what they do, incorporate what they do into what you do.
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- Working together (SOTN 2018)
- Working together in 2019
I have tried to follow that second point in several ways:
- My blog uses WordPress, I did not develop my own blogging tool
- I use River5 as my RSS reader engine
- I use RiverBrowser to display my own rivers of news
- I document and evangelize how to create your own rivers of news
- I document how to use tools like River4 and 1999.io
- I help others set up these tools
I am getting ready to start working in the computer music area again after a long absence, and I am reviewing available tools to see if they fit the areas I am interested in. In that way, I am trying to practice the concepts of working together as I have outlined above.
Anyone want to work together with me? Let me know!