sunset in santa teresa last night

What bothers me about academic and corporate D&I is that it focuses so heavily on political correctness and program pushing that it ignores the lived experiences of the people it claims to “empower”. A few quick examples from my professional experiences: Before breathwork and therapy, I worked in HR at IBM (wild in itself). I spent my first year as a D&I Strategy Partner focused on “career accelerator programs” for women and under-represented minorities. I then moved to the “non-inclusive behavior investigations team”, where I investigated employee-raised harassment concerns. Despite clear evidence, it was almost impossible to substantiate anything. Especially sexual harassment concerns. Interesting response from a company that claims to be so passionate about the advancement of women in the workplace. Last weekend I had a three-day orientation for the MSW program at Michigan. We spent a LOT of time talking about pronouns, and exactly no time discussing the experiential realities of lgbt people. Considering the room was full of training psychotherapists, wouldn’t the latter be helpful for us to learn? For an agenda so obsessed with accountability, there sure does seem to be a lack of it.

‘Those that say, don’t know. And those that know, don’t say.’

Love this perspective. Consider my mind expanded this Monday evening. I’ve been working on a project where I refer to “mental-emotional resilience” as a key indicator of mental health. It didn’t feel right, so today I changed it to endurance. Not sure about that either. I love the idea of striving for something greater than merely “getting through” hard shit, I.e. displaying resilience, and instead repurposing the experience to create something productive/sustainable, I.e. anti-fragile (whatever that means in context of said “hard shit”) View quoted note →

Am I the only one who didn’t know that the Stanford prison experiment was a complete scam? Looking back, it was referenced constantly in my social psych lectured in undergrad. Now I understand that it’s only so well-known because Zambardo was manipulating the scientific community and media to make money & gain power. Shocking! Important reminder to be critical of “science” until it can be proven as _science_ And highly recommend you watch the doc on Hulu if this is new info to you too.

I haven’t been active on nostr lately for reasons largely unrelated to the application itself… It’s no coincidence that I popped back on the day after the election. I had a feeling that people would be having honest, informed conversations here. I can point it to craving humanity over the msm driven illogical perception of collective tragedy. My intuition was right. Nostr is a safe place to disagree, be curious, and communicate with authenticity. What a breath of fresh air.