What We Preserve
On Sunday we were taught to make room for the neighbor. On Monday, the neighbor became a competitor. On what our institutions are built to preserve, and one priest who carried the Sunday teaching into the room where money is made.
The Return We Refuse to Count
An idea of mine once came back to me as someone else's presentation. On reciprocity, what our institutions count, and a library that lent seeds.
Work Is Not a Meritocracy. It Is Ecology.
The most naïve thing I ever believed about work was that it was based on meritocracy. But merit does not exist outside ecology, access, power, and recognition.