I find the concept of feminization—how the presence or predominance of women in certain roles or occupations affect those roles and occupations, their legitimacy, compensation, etc.—to be fascinating and directly affect areas I work in (nonprofits, service, social media). Below is the abstract from a paper presented to the American Sociological Association by Paula England, [...]
From Patricia Fara’s Science: A Four Thousand Year History. She takes a historical and comparative approach to explore the diversity of scientific experience (similar to Karen Armstrong’s A History of God). If you assume that todays science, along with its technological applications, represents the summit of human achievement, then Islamic philosophers do indeed appear to have [...]
The following quote is from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig. (The John mentioned is the protagonist’s buddy who wants to escape modern technological life via a motorcycle he deigns to tune-up): Precision instruments are designed to achieve an idea, dimensional precision, whose perfection is impossible. There is no perfectly shaped [...]
The following is from the conclusion of the Axemaker’s Gift by James Burke and Robert Ornstein: The first step may be to recognize that we can use our technology as it has been used time and again through history. We can use it to change minds, but this time for our own reasons in our [...]
On the ride home last night from my Institute for Nonprofit Management and Leadership Class, I was talking to my classmate about the difficulties of creating a comfortable workplace environment. Both of us had worked with organizations who’s good works externally did not match internal working conditions. Nonprofit organizations walk a difficult line. Businesses have [...]
