Robert Kelley Ayala

Org psychology, leadership development, organizational culture. Dirty tricks for doing good. Cat metaphors. Lots of music and metamodernism.

[Sethy @Brizksie]

WATCH MORE MOVIES!!! READ MORE BOOKS!!!! LISTEN TO MORE MUSIC!!!! ENJOY MORE ART!!

[Robert Kelley Ayala @robertkelleya]

@florianederer Just watched the cinemacast of the Met’s Tristan und Isolde tonight, and now I’m having serious NYC FOMO https://t.co/ii0E97CluV

[Robert Kelley Ayala @robertkelleya]

@JoyceCarolOates And it was fantastic, right? I watched it in a packed cinema in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. I hope you enjoyed!

[Robert Kelley Ayala @robertkelleya]

@JoyceCarolOates @YouTube Seeing the Met’s performance of this tomorrow in the cinema, can’t wait!

[Hanzi Freinacht @HFreinacht]

Intelligence is to play the game well. Wisdom is to choose which game to play.

[Robert Kelley Ayala @robertkelleya]

I have 2 tickets for Geese in Köln / Cologne March 18, willing to sell or trade for 2 in Paris March 6.

[Robert Kelley Ayala @robertkelleya]

Always loved his writing, and his annual roundup of Wildwood T-shirts was legendary. RIP and love to his family and loved ones.

[Philly Mag @phillymag]

Longtime Philly Mag writer Dan McQuade died on Wednesday. Here, his former editor Brian Howard explains how McQuade was one of the most gifted chroniclers of the Philadelphia experience.

https://t.co/f9AI8FrkGa

[Robert Kelley Ayala @robertkelleya]

@_motherslug I watched it a couple years ago just after reading the story. I had no idea how someone could make something cinematic out of that text, but he succeeded marvelously.

[Zach Schonfeld @zzzzaaaacccchhh]

For this week's Sunday Review, I went long on a glorious album that is near and dear to my heart, and maybe yours: Giant Steps by the Boo Radleys.
https://t.co/Z4fnwpv8u1

[Robert Kelley Ayala @robertkelleya]

@annamomi Yes, two very different geniuses coming together and making some real comedy

[Berin Szóka @BerinSzoka]

“The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is to a more violent world.”
—Hannah Arendt, On Violence

[ari 🎏 @earlyxbt]

no money in the world can ever buy a person being really present in the moment with you. a profound gift that can neither be measured nor put into words

[𝘿𝙧. 𝙕𝙞𝙜 @ziggafoss]

Props to the Dodgers' organist for playing "Here's Where the Story Ends" by the Sundays as their starting pitcher was pulled. https://t.co/BrU1lSYpuq

[Robert Kelley Ayala @robertkelleya]

Just heard this in tonight’s game and thrilled to see it’s almost a year old!

[the boba girl 2.0 🧚🏻‍♀️🧋 @cucharon_fc]

i just heard the little souvenir song on the dodgers organ 😱 ‘ … here’s where the story ends … it’s that little souvenir …

[Robert Kelley Ayala @robertkelleya]

@Steven_Hyden I’m really hoping the Inspiral Carpets get some residual love from this Oasis reunion

[Robert Kelley Ayala @robertkelleya]

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Daniel’s piece is a quiet call to courage—for those building today’s ecosystems to stop hiding behind abstraction and step into their roles.

Read the whole thing:
👉 https://t.co/vl8aYh2U6k

[Robert Kelley Ayala @robertkelleya]

For my crypto friends:

We all want decentralization.

But getting there takes more than good intentions and tokenomics.

It takes design—and that means someone has to act first.

Daniel Görtz just wrote the best thing I’ve read on what decentralization actually demands.

🧵

[Robert Kelley Ayala @robertkelleya]

6/

The best central actors don’t dominate.

They don’t cling.

They design themselves out of the job—gradually, responsibly, and with dignity.

But they do the job first.