Insights
The Lazy Drama of ‘The Polycrisis’
If you haven’t yet heard about “the global polycrisis,” it’s coming for you. “The global polycrisis” has caught fire in policy and pundit circles as a shorthand way of saying the world today is, not to
Flywheels, Forcing Functions & Painted Pictures
Doing good content consistently for non-specialists — that’s hard. But we make it much harder, because our support mechanisms suck so badly. By mechanisms, I’m not talking about annual objectives, or encouragement from your board or
Your Precision, Their Confusion
Friend, scientist and longtime reader Jon Fisher alerted me to the following tweet by Jim Elser, a limnologist, field station director, faculty member at two universities and member of the National Academy of Sciences: The Arizona
Your Public Expert Ecosystem
True story: A well-known, must-read climate journalist quit their job last year to join an NGO and start a newsletter — and the newsletter is boring. “Their stuff used to be so good,” a colleague said
Category Narrative: Getting Them to Your New Thinking
One thing I find hard to take about the storytelling industry is its insistence that you need something called “storytelling” to tell a great story. In your public expert’s role, you want to begin engaging with
Power, Media, Science & Public Experts
How odd: Researchers who are otherwise exquisitely aware of the inequities power causes in the world — and in science — are often blind to those inequities when it comes to who gets to talk about