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.
A meditation on the long term—the commitments, projects, and relationships we can work on when our "temporal bandwidth" widens.
How HBO’s The Pitt can help us rethink busyness—and find ways to navigate it with care and grace
How I use the “man behind the curtain” framework, the process of normalization, and the theory of value capture to make sense of chaos.
More and new seem to present themselves as possibilities, when really, they are more often dead-end cycles that do nothing to satisfy us.
A meditation on the long term—the commitments, projects, and relationships we can work on when our "temporal bandwidth" widens.
To tackle the problem of job loss in the 21st-century economy, we need to disentangle “jobs” from “work.”
A “Wait, what?!” moment is a chance to get curious and learn about the systems behind an unexpected event.
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
