memi tecnosovversiv for ragazzettə agile
"Non si va ad ascoltare Nunes per organizzarsi, ma ci si organizza per andare ad ascoltare Nunes"
Invito a tutte le ragazzett* ad andare agli eventi con il cartello: "Rodrigo mettimi sia orizzontale che verticale"
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Monthly vibe check: how much organizing are you doing in your life?
Anonymous Poll
43%
I'm not actively involved in any political organization
38%
I'm doing less than I would like
13%
I'm doing enough
5%
I'm doing too much
Facilitating for neurodiversity - Thinking archetypes
More often than not, structured activities to brainstorm, exchange information, take decisions, or reflect on past activities are predicated on a specific single idea of how the brain works. We all known that there's no such thing, but we are intuitively inclined to build systems and practices that work for us, often filtering out from our organization people whose brain operate differently.
To think through the implications of a specific practice, here's a framework composed of four animal archetypes exemplifying four different modes of thinking, perceiving and processing the world. While we usually engage the world in more than one mode, most people have a mode that dominates all the others for most of their activities.
😺 Cat - Soloist - Internal Monologue.
Cats can work easily alone and prefer to separate from groups when working on things.
Like: Journaling, Document Production and Review, Research
🐶 Dog - Gregarious - Internal Dialogue
Dogs communicate with others by default, even when they are alone. They prefer diverging and converging conversations over linear reasoning.
Like: Group Discussion, Role Playing, Social Games (i.e. for decision-making)
🦅 Eagle - Visual - Weak, dissonant, or no internal voice
Eagles need visual support to think about things. They process images better than words.
Like: diagrams, visual examples, whiteboards
🦡 Racoon - Manual - Weak, dissonant, or no internal voice
Racoons prefer hands-on, physical activities. They prefer to experience an activity to form an opinion about it.
Like: test runs, experiments, group work.
Use these archetypes to reflect on how you approach activities and how your mode influence certain design choices. Observe the group you're part of or ask what animal people relate the most to. Then think about how different animals might participate in different ways to different activities, and if there are some that are strongly exclusionary to a certain mode of thinking.
#orgschool
More often than not, structured activities to brainstorm, exchange information, take decisions, or reflect on past activities are predicated on a specific single idea of how the brain works. We all known that there's no such thing, but we are intuitively inclined to build systems and practices that work for us, often filtering out from our organization people whose brain operate differently.
To think through the implications of a specific practice, here's a framework composed of four animal archetypes exemplifying four different modes of thinking, perceiving and processing the world. While we usually engage the world in more than one mode, most people have a mode that dominates all the others for most of their activities.
😺 Cat - Soloist - Internal Monologue.
Cats can work easily alone and prefer to separate from groups when working on things.
Like: Journaling, Document Production and Review, Research
🐶 Dog - Gregarious - Internal Dialogue
Dogs communicate with others by default, even when they are alone. They prefer diverging and converging conversations over linear reasoning.
Like: Group Discussion, Role Playing, Social Games (i.e. for decision-making)
🦅 Eagle - Visual - Weak, dissonant, or no internal voice
Eagles need visual support to think about things. They process images better than words.
Like: diagrams, visual examples, whiteboards
🦡 Racoon - Manual - Weak, dissonant, or no internal voice
Racoons prefer hands-on, physical activities. They prefer to experience an activity to form an opinion about it.
Like: test runs, experiments, group work.
Use these archetypes to reflect on how you approach activities and how your mode influence certain design choices. Observe the group you're part of or ask what animal people relate the most to. Then think about how different animals might participate in different ways to different activities, and if there are some that are strongly exclusionary to a certain mode of thinking.
#orgschool
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Leftists would be up at night researching and posting about sleep rather than just sleeping.
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Of all the naps, the "11AM on a working day" nap is possibly the most challenging, unpredictable and dangerous of them all.
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A small, yet impressive, example of lateral strategic thinking applied to personal political practice came from a story that was shared with me a few days ago.
The grandmother of the storyteller was a fervent feminist and community organizer in the 40s and 50s in Florida. She was married to a man who wasn't really sympathetic with the cause and imposed domestic standards and expectations in line to that time and place.
To liberate personal time to spend into political activities and organizing, she didn't chase a frontal conflict with the husband that probably would have led to unfruitful results given the power imbalance at home. She instead adopted an array of tricks to pretend to meet the expected standards without actually doing the work.
The most memorable of them all was to put bake a single onion in the oven over the afternoon. The smell filled the domestic walls, convincing the husband she had been cooking for the whole day rather than spending her time working on the backlog of her political organizing. He was then often served precooked industrial quick meals, which took only a few minutes to heat up. He never figured out the ruse.
You can say that, sometimes, there's solidarity in an onion.
The grandmother of the storyteller was a fervent feminist and community organizer in the 40s and 50s in Florida. She was married to a man who wasn't really sympathetic with the cause and imposed domestic standards and expectations in line to that time and place.
To liberate personal time to spend into political activities and organizing, she didn't chase a frontal conflict with the husband that probably would have led to unfruitful results given the power imbalance at home. She instead adopted an array of tricks to pretend to meet the expected standards without actually doing the work.
The most memorable of them all was to put bake a single onion in the oven over the afternoon. The smell filled the domestic walls, convincing the husband she had been cooking for the whole day rather than spending her time working on the backlog of her political organizing. He was then often served precooked industrial quick meals, which took only a few minutes to heat up. He never figured out the ruse.
You can say that, sometimes, there's solidarity in an onion.
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"Imagine what could go wrong if you try to build a plane without calculations and projections. Now think about what could go wrong if you try to build relationships based on calculations and projections"
- Hospicing Modernity, Vanessa Machado de Oliveira
- Hospicing Modernity, Vanessa Machado de Oliveira
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