The work we do (and the people we are) don’t exist in a vacuum. To make sense of the 21st-century economy and the markets it creates, we need to make sense of the systems and society we inhabit. Explore Tara’s articles featuring systems thinking, social theory, accessibility, philosophy, and more.
Work and education overlap in all sorts of ways, from the economic to the political to the cultural and social. Lauren Lassabe Shepherd, a historian of education and the host of the American Campus Podcast, shares how higher ed has evolved and what that means for the future of work.
Old assumptions and beliefs created future selves we invested time and effort into—when we deconstruct those beliefs, we must also grieve the selves they bore.
How HBO’s The Pitt can help us rethink busyness—and find ways to navigate it with care and grace
Crosswords, coffeeshops, and untangling life’s challenges by rethinking the problems we think we have.
How I use the “man behind the curtain” framework, the process of normalization, and the theory of value capture to make sense of chaos.
Thoughts on college prep, midlife, and as-of-yet-uninvented careers.
The federal bureaucracy is going through a “reduction in force.” What does that have to do with you and your work? Quiet a lot, actually.
To break the Validation Spiral, we have to change the structure of the system.
When we mistake a model for reality, we risk shaping reality to fit the model.
To solve intractable challenges—big and small—we need systems and structures that catalyze our imaginations and urge us to realize higher values.
In an era of information overabundance, how we structure our ideas matters more than ever.