Key Ideas of the Week

Each week we share key ideas from our client work, our interactions with the Humanizing Work community, and our travels on the internet. We’re constantly thinking about how individuals, teams, and organizations can be more effective in a human-centric, complexity-aware, and sustainable way.

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This Week

Do Something That Won’t Compute - In his 1973 poem “Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front,” farmer-philosopher-poet Wendell Berry suggested, “every day do something / that won’t compute”. In 1973, “doesn’t compute” meant, can’t be reduced to math or a decision tree. Do things that make sense from a human perspective but can’t be reduced to calculations. This line came to […]

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