Here’s a list of the blog posts I didn’t write over the last year or so. The ideas were there, but the time and energy just were not.
- Extractive partnerships in the aid sector
- There’s real life, and then there’s organizational life
- The result missing in your logframe: Feedback
- Scale is not my goal, so suck it
- The rhetoric of results and the incubus of information
- Actually, I don’t need to know the context. I need to know how to partner with people that do.
- Tractor? Hell ya!
- Narcissistic and naval-gazing: The INGOs that will not survive the changing tide
- Randomistas vs. holisticas
- Bad #globaldev days: We all have them. Weathering the “futility of it all.”
- How/when have you been marginalized in your life? Figure it out. It matters. (e.g. if you’ve never been poor, why do you suppose you can “solve” poverty?)
- Responsibility without authority: How bad managers thwart development (though I explored this a bit recently)
- Self-censorship in the aid sector (though I explored this a bit recently too)
- Feedback, failure and fecklessness
So what do you think? Any you still want to hear?
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“Scale is not my goal, so suck it” should be a quick post to write. I’m pretty sure the title says it all.
I think you’ve just 1. invented a new post form 2. inspired me to copy you (with due reference!).
I have a similarly long list of posts that never made it online and I wasn’t sure what to do with it. Now I do, so thanks!
“Self-censorship in the aid sector”…mmm, my unpublished post sounds like “How do deal with dissent in the aid sector”. Maybe it’s quite telling that neither have (yet) been published.
Here’s some more votes/feedback I’ve received from Twitter:
3 – Scale is not my goal
2 – What makes you think you can solve poverty
2 – Extractive partnerships
1 – Feedback
1 – Rhetoric of results
1 – for all!