Curated links. Favorite Article I Read This Week: Inconsolable Loss and Overpowering Damage Useful Article on Focusing More on the Things That Matter to You: In Your Own Way, Oliver Burkeman Useful Article on Writing (especially if you write short stories or novels): The 22 Rules of Storytelling, according to Pixar A Book I’m Currently …
Month: November 2022
Courageous Discomfort, Journey to a Promised Land, and 13 Months in a Year
Reading lists. Favorite Book on Race I Read This Month: Courageous Discomfort: How to Have Important, Brave, Life—Changing Conversations about Race and Racism. Books like White Fragility and How To Be An Antiracist discuss how to have uncomfortable conversations with white people. But there is something unique about Courageous Discomfort, a book on race and racism written by a Black …
I’m Exhausted by People Thinking the Reason I’m Sitting in a Senior Room Is That I’m Black,
NOT That I’m Excellent At My Job At Beshale hotel, in Addis Ababa, I met a Friend of a friend for Ethiopian Coffee. This Friend of a friend was a white man in his late 30s. In our conversation, what position I am at the institute I work for came up. When I said I’m …