Men Managing Women Post-#MeToo

Handling Gender Dynamics for Pretty Good Dudes

A few weeks ago, I was tasked with writing a sample blogpost about management — anything having to do with management. The assignment came at the very height of the #MeToo…

The Day After

On Behaving Well in Times of War

In the past few years, my mom has been working on a fictionalized memoir entitled Behaving Well in Times of War. It’s great, and I hope that someone who publishes books will someday recognize its brilliance and publish it as a book. The title…

Good Guys IRL

Organizers for Non-Organizers in the Face of Trump

A few days ago, we were all still holding out a little blip of hope that this could be not as bad as it seemed. Maybe, some of us keep thinking, all the Trump electors will switch their votes…

An Octopus’ Confession

On one hand…

Some #vulnerability:

Power for Power’s Sake

Some Lessons from the AIDS Crisis

“To what end?”

That is the rhetorical or not-so-rhetorical question that I ask students when they tell me that what they want is “more people.” More people to come to their events…

On Being Pissed At Each Other

Facebook is PISSED right now. Here are some things it is pissed about:

Forgiveness: Two Applications

Part 1: Forgiving Myself, Or Something.

Kol Nidreeeeeeeeeee

It’s Yom Kippur today, so naturally I’m 1. eating toast with nutella (fast lasted till approx. 10:45a) and 2. thinking about forgiveness.

Coaching & Training

Investing in organizers for the long-term

Every day in Trump’s America, there’s a new crisis to attend to— and for that reason, leadership development can (understandably!) take a backseat to the urgent work of mobilizing.

Good Guys at the Barricades: An Explainer

What is Life? Who am I?

What is Good Guys at…

A few things about this Sean Spicer thing.

*Slightly edited from FB.

Hi, it’s been a while. I wrote this on the Face, and it seemed to resonate with a lot of people. So writing it here, too. More publicly.