Hi Friends-
I had a great conversation with massage therapist Rich Mhlanga for a brand new episode of Hurry Slowly. We talked about what self-care looks like in a world where we are largely isolated from touch and how to navigate the emotional shockwaves that are constantly rolling through our bodies.
Listen to: "Rich Mhlanga: Your Check Engine Light Is On"
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What is owed. As my friend said, "Every American should read this." I agree. This article on reparations from Nikole Hannah-Jones is essential: "At the very moment a wide array of public policies was providing most white Americans with valuable tools to advance their social welfare — ensure their old age, get good jobs, acquire economic security, build assets and gain middle-class status — most black Americans were left behind or left out," the historian Ira Katznelson writes in his book, When Affirmative Action Was White. "The federal government … functioned as a commanding instrument of white privilege."
Women's roller derby has a plan for COVID, and it kicks ass. Pulling from the ranks of their own players, the international women's roller derby association put together a crack team of public health professionals to set guidelines for a safe return to play. This is so inspirational: "The guidelines don't just address athletes, but also include recommendations for officials, photographers, announcers, and other volunteers. The section spelling out the WFTDA's safety-first policy on spectators is so good, it "almost made me cry," Binney says. "It's so nice to see a clear, unambiguously right take."
Our remote work future is going to suck. Sean Blanda takes off the rose-colored glasses and calls WFH like it is: "When you work remotely, mentorship is stifled because there is no learning via osmosis. You can't model your behavior on your successful teammates because you only see them on Zoom and in Slack. Whatever process they are using to achieve their results is opaque to you. Much of the language used around remote work (and remote events) assumes that one is in the mid-to-late stages of their career. When you're young, you don't need "focus" or to "get things done." You need exposure to new ideas and people. You need the serendipitous fortune of sitting in on the right meeting, attending the right happy hour, or earning the respect of the right observer. All of the above is more difficult in a remote environment."
Jia Tolentino on practicing the discipline of hope. A great interview with one of my favorite journalists: "I'm also suspicious of the way that Not Being Racist is a project that people seem to be approaching like boot camp. To deepen your understanding of race, of this country, should make you feel like the world is opening up, like you're dissolving into the immensity of history and the present rather than being more uncomfortably visible to yourself. Reading more Black writers isn't like taking medicine. People ought to seek out the genuine pleasure of decentering themselves, and read fiction and history alongside these popular anti-racist manuals, and not feel like they need to calibrate their precise degree of guilt and goodness all the time."
+ Podcasting, IP, and creators of color.
+ The fullest look yet of the racial inequality of coronavirus.
+ In a crisis, we can learn from trauma therapy.
+ Zuckerberg never fails to disappoint.
+ How to build an equitable space.
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Hi, I'm Jocelyn, the human behind this newsletter. I created the online course RESET, a cosmic tune-up for your workday, and I host Hurry Slowly — a podcast about how you can be more productive, creative, and resilient by slowing down. | | | | |
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