I’m sure I'll still share the occasional rant, complaint, or eyeroll here, but all reflective and productive writing (and audio) is now over at Substack:
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David Sasaki
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“individual freedom, collective self-governance"
davidsasaki.substack.comJoined February 2007
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I know these bosses. I hope to never become one!
“Research finds managers are less likely to pursue viable ideas that come from internal versus external sources because they see colleagues as threats.”
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Substack Notes is the Twitter alternative I have been looking for. Come play! substack.com/profile/330338
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Kinda feels like everyone needs to watch the demo of Microsoft’s AI co-pilot. But man, I feel so bad for her daughter!!
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Trying to wrap my brain around the fact that next year is going to be the first big AI + Tiktok presidential election.
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In this week's newsletter: James Earl Jones has licensed his Darth Vader voice to be AI-replicated. JAY-Z hasn't. Will our own AI replicas make a good impression on our great-great-great grandchildren?
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Then maybe would hire me as her mechanic for her next adventure. These photos are amazing.
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Maybe this will strengthen my case to my colleagues in HR that I ought to be able to use my professional development funds to take a bicycle mechanic training course.
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Is there a way to filter words on LinkedIn? Specifically: humbled, honored, proud, privileged, excited, amazed, thrilled, and grateful?
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I bet that Suzanne poured her heart and soul into writing this book and only a couple hundred people will read it. But 4.2M have seen this tweet. #FutureOfPublishing
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If you ever want to see a career low point, this is it. Crying my entire way home.
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i have a notion page dedicated to listing down random memories from my childhood so i don’t forget it completely
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There ought to be a Harvard Biz School case study about why is able to release useful features faster and more reliably than any other major software product. e.customeriomail.com/deliveries/dgT
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"64% of us feel alienated in our workplaces & 74% in our local communities.
Today’s politics tap feelings of non-belonging and seek others to blame for the feeling. The problem: To feel like you belong — whoever you are — you must find someone else to be excluded."
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We're increasingly a nation of self-declared misfit toys: the feeling of belonging for Americans of every race/ethnicity is quite low.
This makes us ripe for exploitation by unprincipled political leaders who thrive on division and resentment.
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“The sad thing is the moment you get better [at writing] is the same moment you become too old to be interesting or relevant to the public you’re writing for. But maybe there’s a sweet spot, and maybe I’m just about to pass it.”
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“The longer you write, the more revealed you are. It’s just embarrassing. I’m interested in the things that people can’t escape, like their bodies and their families and their circumstances.”
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“I have a little secret theory that lower-middle-class people are the happiest in the world. Everything is possibility.”
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“The feeling of not belonging is a very productive feeling for me. People would ask me about having a confused identity, but for me that ambivalence, that confusion, that variety is life. People who are very, very sure of who they are can be pretty oppressive.”
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“To me, being attendant to history is a kind of resistance. It offers the possibility of alternative worlds, that there is a reality outside the one we are living in.”
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Every time I read quotes of Zadie Smith saying just about anything, I feel compelled to keep them in a safe place … like Twitter?
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“Do you need to have a sense of morality in order to see inequity, or would a purely rational AI also see it? If it did recognize inequity, what would it suggest that we do about it?”
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We're hiring a new Editor . We're looking for someone excited to cover the impact of tech on society and excited to join our innovative media-academic-think tank collaboration.
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As I read about the “emerging field” of political innovation, I am reminded of ’s text (2013!) about the maximal desire to brand a new field and the minimal desire to connect with existing knowledge. democracyspot.net/2013/06/17/ope
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“How can political innovation become a beacon of democracy in flawed democracies or even autocracies?” @johannamair, Josefa Kindt & Sébastien Mena (@thehertieschool) share research into the innovators, orchestrators, and enablers of political innovation. ssir.org/articles/entry
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How else am I going to fill my time? Are you suggesting that we let civil society organizations do their work instead of administer to donors and our army of consultants?
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How many more reports and reviews and plans and strategies and convenings do we need?
I can’t.
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OMG, yes! “Sometimes I’d wear short-sleeve t-shirts over long-sleeve t-shirts, which I find a little embarrassing now even though I admit I still like the look.”
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I love my Republican friends. Politics is a thin slice of life. We need more peace entrepreneurs to stand up to the conflict entrepreneurs.
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If you are a Republican in 2023, you are a fascist.
If you are married to/in a relationship with a Republican in 2023, you are a fascist.
If you are friends with a Republican in 2023, you are a fascist.
At some point, your actions need to match your memes.
It’s a low bar.
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My Uber driver asks me how my day is going. “Pure meetings, all day,” I tell him. “They pay you to talk, not work,” he says and laughs. So true. 🙈
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. has a knack for asking the obvious questions that don’t occur to the rest of us. theconnector.substack.com/p/what-theyre-
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I’m such a big fan of , , and . I’ve spent many hours reading their journalism with my morning coffee. Lovely to see them in person.
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Of the dozens of international transparency standards that have come up over the past 15 years, I wonder if greater adoption in Turkey could have saved lives. And I wonder if there will be more calls for construction transparency
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Love this profile of . 👏 Definitely gonna check out McMillan Library this week. cc:
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The Kenyan nonprofit Book Bunk is restoring public libraries in Kenya's capital Nairobi, and remaking them into inclusive spaces where people can gather to read, share ideas and negotiate history. My latest for @nytimesbooks nytimes.com/2023/02/04/boo
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I keep a note on my computer of my 10 favorite works of fiction, nonfiction, self-help, etc. My fiction list hadn't changed for years until 's Red Pill knocked off Franzen's Freedom. My review:
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.”
-Alice Walker
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El libro Oaxaca Resurgent del prof. @asdillingham de @ASU_SHPRS fue reconocido por @clahistorians como la obra más significativa publicada en 2022 sobre historia de México. Conoce al autor y su investigación con comunidades indígenas en el estado de Oaxaca
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“On the scale of the cosmos, my life is meaningless. To the people around me, how I act is very meaningful. So I should pay attention to how I act to the people around me.”
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“the number of meetings a week attended by the average user of Microsoft Teams more than doubled from February 2020 to February 2022, while the amount of time spent in meetings more than tripled.” 🤯
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We are hiring our first INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS tech fellow at ! Apply to work with the International Civic Engagement & Government team and bring a tech lens to their work around the world: fordfoundation.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/FordFoun
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I’ll try anything, but pretty sure that “a personalized news feed driven by RSS” is my forever jam.
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All of these experiences added up to a point of view about the purpose of a constitution that I didn't know I had. I put a lot of sweat and tears into this one and would love to hear your thoughts if you have a chance to read it
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And finally, I learned from about Us@250 to celebrate the 250th anniversary of American independence by re-examining and reinvigorating our social compact.
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The next month I was in Kenya listening to the disappointments of Kenyan lawyers and activists who have spent the last 12 years fighting for social change and better governance through Kenya's 2010 progressive constitution.
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