Leading from a Place of Tomorrow is necessary in ethical leadership. Anything that I do in advocacy work, I do from a place of tomorrow. Not “How will this affect me now, but how will this affect the people after me?” Leading from a place of now is selfish and self-centered. Making ourselves comfortable now…
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Because of the Internet: Social Media Innovated Groupthink
The internet right now feels very much like, “If your friend jumped off a cliff, would you do it too?” Algorithms give way to groupthink, which is dangerous on so many levels. When your feed is heavily curated to feed you what you want to hear (and monetized for doing so), it’s creating a bubble…
Confessions of an Ex-Millennial Mayor
I imagine 18-year-old me, 28-year-old me, and the me today sitting at a bar. They’d all get along kee-keeing with one another. They’d converse about talking the crying customer out of the plane bathroom before take off, or telling the one man, “I’m as hot and chocolate as he was going to get,” because we…
37 in Less Than 7 Days: Flexibility is a Flex
I will be 37 in 7 days. What am I learning? Mostly, I’ll never have it all figured out. After briefly being a flight attendant, my 9-year career in tech came to a pause. The position got eliminated, so I leaned heavily into pivoting. I will continue to lean into pivoting my entire life as…
The Dream Should Be Community
What does it mean to dream? What is your dream? What would it feel like if you woke up and your dream came true? All lighthearted questions, but they all pulled something out of me. Last week, I went to a Dreamers Event, and it was amazing to just be present and sit still. Putting…
We Are All Exhausted
We are all exhausted right now, but we show up with as much as we can every day. One hundred percent looks different to the same person each day, and we just do our best and try again tomorrow. Times in this political climate (which some of us predicted if we got there) are hard…
Capitalism Killed the American Dream
Once upon a time, in an American neighborhood, you could buy a house, work through college to pay your tuition with zero student loan debt, and have a child without feeling as if you would never financially recover. The credit score wasn’t even created until 1989. It wasn’t until 1978 that federal student loans were…
The US Government: Scarier than Any Halloween
I’m afraid that we’re not going to successfully bully the billionaires with peaceful protesting and letters. They’re actively choosing to be morally corrupt. I don’t think they care about optics. Honestly, if you look back at how we all got the rights that are being dismantled, it was the Civil Rights Era. They protested, but…
Death by Documentation: Do You Want to See Change or Do you Want Credit?
Both can happen in tandem. A good example of why putting documentation before helping people is the April 29th tragedy where 2 people lost their lives and they 300k people in Allegheny County lost power. What was the tragedy? Lack of infrastructure and a lot of wind. The aftermath left a lot of people without…
America, The Great Disillusion
America has a gun problem but we would rather deport all of the people who weren’t born here. Most mass shootings happen by Americans but, statistics, science, this admin doesn’t care. 263 mass shootings have happened just this year. But the government wants us to look away because the right to bear arms, it’s in…
