Most of What We Call Progress - Yusuf Aytas
What years of software development reveal about progress, process, and people, reflections on why good judgment outlasts tools, and simplicity always wins.| Yusuf Aytas
It’s Monday morning. A team gathers for a leadership check-in. The agenda is tight, but one team member challenges a critical decision. The leader, already […] The post No Gut Feeling: A Scientific Look at What Makes Leaders Effective first appeared on New Metrics.| New Metrics
What years of software development reveal about progress, process, and people, reflections on why good judgment outlasts tools, and simplicity always wins.| Yusuf Aytas
Blissful ignorance by Andrey Mir Electronic media has extended our nervous system to the entire planet… To protect the mind from informational and empathic overload, our news “receptors” become numb, which in turn results in the desire to avoid news. If the early Internet oversupplied the amount of news, social media aggravated this overload by […]| Tracy Durnell's Mind Garden
Considering autonomous AI agents from an organizational culture vantage point suggests that we won't trust them in predictable future.| Pawel Brodzinski on Leadership in Technology
But what is unrestricted funding, and what room is there for it in the philanthropic sector? More importantly, how will it change the way we manage programs, and how will it contribute to building more equitable and anti-colonial practices within a still-colonial system?| CCF
Dr. Debra Bercovici PhD: As a new therapist, I know how difficult it can be to find an autism-affirming therapist. In this article, I explore some of my thoughts and experiences, and offer practical tips for vetting your therapist.| Embrace Autism
Dr. Engelbrecht ND RP: Autistic burnout is distinct from classical burnout, with different causes and symptoms. In this article, I will explain the differences between the two.| Embrace Autism
Hikikomori is a condition of prolonged social isolation. In this article, we will explain how it affects autistic people, and what characterizes this form of extreme social withdrawal.| Embrace Autism
By Stewart Clegg, Torgeir Skyttermoen, and Anne Live Vaagaasar – the authors of Project Management – Creating Sustainable Value. This is the 4th of an article series of 4 articles (each can be read individually): 1: Beyond the Basics: What Project Management Needs Today 1/4 2: Beyond Waste: What Project Management can do Today (2/4) 3: Beyond Rock […] The post Beyond Control: How Project Leadership Maturity Creates Meaningful Impact 4/4 appeared first on ManageMagazine.| ManageMagazine
Exploring the critical need to secure LLMs with the same urgency and resources dedicated to achieving AGI, focusing on autonomy and agency in AI systems.| www.promptfoo.dev
We trust Southerners to make the best decisions for themselves to thrive in every area of their lives, including parenting, abortion, or other reproductive health decisions. The post Why Autonomy and Self-determination are at the Heart of ARC Southeast appeared first on ARC Southeast.| ARC Southeast
Recommender systems are online algorithms that can help users, reducing complexity and search costs. But they also target and exploit behavioral biases. Recommender systems lend themselves to regulation through 'budges'. … More Algorithms and Autonomy: Regulating Recommender Systems in the Age of Hyper-Nudging| Behavioural Public Policy Blog
Women have re-interpreted sacred texts, stepped into leadership roles, and created alternative communities.| Psychologs Magazine | Mental Health Magazine | Psychology Magazine | Self-Hel...
Las cuatro direcciones | The 4 directions : by arnoldo colibrí (18″x24″ acrylic on canvas; 1994) (c) The 10th CompArte: The Emiliano Zapata Community Festival The Chiapas Support Commit…| Chiapas Support Committee
The science behind what makes leaders effective, how neuroscience and psychology influence decisions, trust, motivation, and team culture.| New Metrics
Join Cait Lamberton and Peter McGraw to unpack how dignity shapes Solo living, partnered life, and everything in between.| Peter McGraw
Alliances are difficult beasts to manage. Priorities don't always align; gains for some are sacrifices for others. Resources aren't equally provided or distributed. It is a difficult dance for leaders to balance participation in alliances for the greater good while maintaining the strategic autonomy of their sovereign nation. Marcus Antonini spent his year at the U.S. Army War College as a member of the Advanced Strategic Art Program (ASAP) examining the concept of strategic autonomy, primari...| A Better Peace: The War Room Podcast
When every dev is just doing the next ticket, who’s steering the ship?| The Cynical Developer
"No" tells the world that we exist.| Kourosh Dini
By Gloria Muñoz Ramírez Subcomante Moisés during the Rebel and Revel Arte Meeting, Chiapas, April 2025. Photo: Luis Enrique Aguilar “The EZLN has plenty of ideas about what an organized and free pe…| Chiapas Support Committee
Without care, distributed autonomy and transparency will misfire. Power will be used for selfish gains instead of collective gains.| Pawel Brodzinski on Leadership in Technology
Discover how Amazon mirrors the Dutch East India Company, controlling modern trade like a colonial empire. A provocative look at digital monopolies, labor, and resistance.| lev.lc
Communities express their resistance to the mega-project highway Palenque-San Cristobal de Las Casa (2019). By Lucie Cabins (For the Chiapas Support Committee: May, 2025) “Impunity is not the resul…| Chiapas Support Committee
This past Sunday was Mother’s Day. I got to spend an entire almost two hours in the car driving to one of my favorite restaurants in Chicago to pick up brunch and bring it back home. It was absolutely glorious. Besides the anticipatory drooling over the amazing spread coming my way, for the first time … Continue reading Choice & Relevance for the Win| Confessions of a Former Instructional Coach
High autonomy, high alignment environment is optimal organizational model. Aligning individual efforts must happen before sharing autonomy.| Pawel Brodzinski on Leadership in Technology
"There's this concept called inbox zero, where everyone tries to get to their inbox down to zero. But I would suggest that a more noble pursuit is that of calendar zero". I chatted to Howard Lerman this week. I was blown away by this discussion - it captured exactly what is wrong about current work,| Eat Sleep Work Repeat - Make Work Better
At Lunar Logic anyone can make any decision. When people hear that they imagine all things that might go wrong. In reality, they don't.| Pawel Brodzinski on Leadership in Technology
Undergraduate Finalist paper in the 2025 National Uehiro Oxford Essay Prize in Practical Ethics. By Rahul Lakhanpaul, University of Edinburgh.| Practical Ethics
Understanding the autonomy level of a system is crucial for making informed decisions about its integration, design, and operation. It allows you to determine how much human intervention is required, the necessary level of oversight, and the decision-making authority the system should have. By knowi| Open Ethics Initiative
In January 2023, Democratic state Reps. Carlos González and Judith A. García introduced HD 3822 into the Massachusetts legislature. The bill proposed establishing a program within the Department of Corrections that would allow incarcerated individuals to donate bone marrow or organs in exchange for a reduced sentence. The bill aimed not only to address the…| Blog of the APA
The very short version: it is madness to continue transferring the running of European societies and governments to American clouds. Not only is it a terrible idea given the kind of things the “King of America” keeps saying, the legal sophistry used to justify such transfers, like the nonsense letter the Dutch cabinet sent last week, has now been invalidated by Trump himself. And why are we doing this? Convenience.| Bert Hubert's writings
In the beautiful Dutch booklet Over en Uit: Driekwart Eeuw Radiocommunicatie 1900 - 1975 (‘Over and out: 75 years of radio communications’), we read: 1916: As a result of British cable censorship, free communication between the Dutch government and the Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies was no longer feasible. (Dutch version of this post is here) The Netherlands was dependent on foreign countries for communication, which had already caused problems earlier:| Bert Hubert's writings
Want to leave home before 18? Here's the honest, no-bullshit guide you need. Learn your rights, strategies to protect yourself, and escape...| Bitches Get Riches
Robin Rosebrugh, Director of Workplace Strategy & Research at Aura, details how the office can take a page from the Gym's playbook.| Work Design Magazine
My paper, Games and the art of agency, is now forthcoming at Philosophical Review. The paper argues that games are the art form of agency. Game designers don’t just create worlds, or stories. They tell us who we will be in … Continue reading →| Objectionable
After her daughter was misdiagnosed and paralyzed unnecessarily at the age of 8, Leila Dudley has been a lifelong advocate for those who are or have been subjected to medical malpractice.| Palmetto State Watch
I changed my mind about euthanasia in June 2015. The world has been rushing in the other direction. For The Dispatch I explain why MAiD makes an idol of autonomy and endangers our sense of what it means to be human. Moving past the desire for “death with dignity” requires admitting that autonomy is not the ordering principle of a human life. Every person begins their life as a burden to someone else. It isn’t […]| Leah Libresco
Enero Zapatista 2025Tending to our dream from below:Rooted in Zapatista Principles A group of individual activists, community-based organizers and collectives based in Oakland, San Francisco and ot…| Chiapas Support Committee
Our new blog post, written by MSt student Eliora Henzler, delves into the ethics of sending people to a country they are not from. #Italy #Albania #PracticalEthics #UniversityofOxford| Practical Ethics |
U.S. Special Operations Command updated its technical areas of interest in a broad agency announcement to include additional autonomous capabilities that could aid commandos with their missions.| DefenseScoop
A report by the Chiapas Support Committee The Zapatistas have maintained autonomous self-government in their territories in Chiapas ever since the successful and unexpected uprising of 1994. Last year, for the third or fourth time since that uprising, the Zapatistas...| Chiapas Support Committee
Mark D. West has written a very helpful review (2024) of my recent book, Epistemic Care: Vulnerability, Inquiry, and Social Epistemology. I appreciate the review and this opportunity to respond to it. I agree with much of what West says in the review—questions of autonomy, independence, and obligation are central to understanding communities of inquiry and the duties incumbent upon their members. In this response, I aim to clarify a couple of issues brought to light by West’s comments and...| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
Leung's novel asks us to consider the social infrastructure of ecological resistance from the ground up The post Autonomy, Conviviality, Indigeneity appeared first on Lausan.| Lausan
What inclusive mobility solutions can improve the accessibility of public transit? Are they cost-effective? The answer lies with phygital... The post How to Foster Inclusive Mobility at Public Transit? appeared first on Inclusive City Maker.| Inclusive City Maker
This blog post will help managers understand the pros & cons of autonomy in the workplace so that they can strike the perfect balance.| Risely
Technology Operational Experimentation Event (TOEE) 25.2 is part of a campaign led by the Office of Naval Research-Global that will focus on emerging tech to support operational objectives related to subsea and seabed warfare.| DefenseScoop
From the EZLN’s Capitán, at Enlace Zapatista. August 2024. Let’s assume, without conceding, that you can imagine the following: You were born in an indigenous town. In a community you acquired your language, your culture, your way. All this makes...| Chiapas Support Committee
Lately there’s been some confusion: places like SIDN (Dutch national operator of all internet names that end on .NL) claim that nobody in Europe can deliver their computer needs, and that they therefore must outsource their operations to American cloud providers. Dutch version of this page here: Cloud Native, Europa, de ‘Bijenkorf’ Megascaler 🇳🇱 Meanwhile, we have large providers of servers and services in the Netherlands and in Europe who claim that they can (and do) provide thes...| Bert Hubert's writings
The short version: organizations often hesitate for many years before outsourcing tasks, particularly in the field of ICT (Information and Communication Technology). During those years, valuable ICT employees leave because constantly justifying their own existence is frustrating. In the long run, something will eventually go wrong, making the decision to outsource much easier: “We can’t and don’t want to do this ourselves anymore.” However, by hesitating for so long, you have created ...| Bert Hubert's writings
Written by Rebecca Brown Imagine going to a cafe for a drink and snack. At some point you need the loo – you go to the bathroom but discover the toilet seat is higher than your waist! Somehow you manage to clamber up, unfortunately touching parts of a toilet you would prefer you didn’t have| Practical Ethics
While asynchronous technology offers many benefits, preserving a certain level of human connection between co-workers is essential. Get tips to achieve it:| Gavel International
This is a lightly edited transcript of my presentation today at the ACCSS/NCSC/Surf seminar ‘Cyber Security and Society’. I want to thank the organizers for inviting me to their conference & giving me a great opportunity to talk about something I worry about a lot. Here are the original slides with notes, which may be useful to view together with the text below. In the notes there are also additional URLs that back up the claims I make in what follows.| Bert Hubert's writings
Shared with permission, identifying details changed by Jo Cormack PhD A few years back, I worked with the family of a ten-year-old girl with a very limited diet – let’s call her Amy. Amy is autistic and has quite a few sensory differences. She goes to a local school and is into video games and […]| Responsive Feeding Pro
