Archive - Open CoLab

Between stocks and flows

Recent work on shared goals, working in cycles, and demystifying strategy—plus lessons from my job hunt

Jul 12, 2023 •

December 2022

Reflections and projections (🤔 / 🔮)

Plus: What is strategy? And what is a strategist?

Dec 20, 2022 •

August 2022

Critical junctures

In which the newsletter writer has an existential crisis and plots a career pivot

Aug 3, 2022 •

December 2021

wrap it up, tie a bow, let's move on

Dec 14, 2021 •

August 2021

Movements of movements, stories about storytelling, leading leaders, and more

Aug 12, 2021 •

June 2021

Strategy, people, money

The newsletter is back: strategy (elephant problems, systems change); people (digital organizing, think tanks); and money (Gates + other foundation…

Jun 7, 2021 •

April 2020

Welcome to Peak Uncertainty

Welcome to Peak Uncertainty. Population: You. (And your team. And probably everyone else.) A few weeks ago I put out a framework on how to plan in this…

Apr 15, 2020 •

March 2020

Social change in a time of social distance

Hi. Your friendly neighborhood facilitator here. Have you been getting a lot of messages about how your local library, every nonprofit you know, and…

Mar 16, 2020 •

December 2019

Reflections, failure and privilege

Dec 19, 2019 •

September 2019

Open CoLab get insights | make change This newsletter has fallen a bit behind schedule. It launched as a monthly at the beginning of the year, and I…

Sep 27, 2019 •

May 2019

Boundary problems

Open CoLab Where one thing ends and another begins. Where we face immovable objects but freedom as well. This month's theme: boundary problems. In math…

May 24, 2019 •

April 2019

Nothing is what it seems

Open CoLab This is the Open CoLab newsletter. Or is it? Wait… yes, it definitely is. Here in New York, April gives us a glimpse of spring. But winter…

Apr 9, 2019 •

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