Sarah Bleiwas

Curious/care about how macro changes x lives (love, the good, values, phil, policy, psych, econ, tech, equity, freedom, learning, truth, history, the future...)

[Sarah Bleiwas @sarahbleiwas]

speak as though you are right; listen as though you are wrong. http://t.co/2UGSxgdiJw

[Sarah Bleiwas @sarahbleiwas]

Elements needed for #collective #DecisionMaking to work:
1) Real diversity of mental models/perspectives
2) Independent views
3) Decentralization of information

- James Surowiecki in The Wisdom of Crowds via https://t.co/01X66auBQ4

#silos #institutions #metacrisis

[Sarah Bleiwas @sarahbleiwas]

"#Institutions (may) empower #individuals to challenge the status quo (through) interpersonal #relationships (that) broaden perspectives and strengthen shared commitment to civic goals." Via @JSilbey @hartzog / https://t.co/JprFcLczvL

[Sarah Bleiwas @sarahbleiwas]

Federal, provincial, and municipal govts each control pieces of the (X) policy system.

The feds oversee (A); provinces (B); municipalities (C).

No one actor has the authority/ mandate to align the pieces, and this fragmentation leaves (Y) behind.

#policy #coordination ~via:

[iPolitics @iPoliticsCA]

The opioid crisis is not just a “crisis.” It is a chronic issue that demands a long-term, coordinated, evidence-based response rather than piecemeal reactions, write Coun. Stephanie Plante and Dr. Monty Ghosh #cdnpoli #ottpoli https://t.co/8g1eDAOs0O

[Sarah Bleiwas @sarahbleiwas]

"He lived in #Ottawa, after all, a city whose surface disapproves of its own depths." Andre Alexis

[Sarah Bleiwas @sarahbleiwas]

"The pace of life knows."

- Adam Wolfund in https://t.co/jArqIc5XuA

#pace #zoom

[Sarah Bleiwas @sarahbleiwas]

Gall's Law paraphrased:

A complex system that works ALWAYS evolves from a simple system that worked.

A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a simple system that works.

#complex #simple #systems

[Sarah Bleiwas @sarahbleiwas]

"We are under constant surveillance by each other, all the time." Cindy Cohn from @EFF at @BKCHarvard

#technology #creepy

[Sarah Bleiwas @sarahbleiwas]

Carl Rogers’ On Becoming a Person(1961): “The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.” 

Via @Jonathan_Rowson

[Sarah Bleiwas @sarahbleiwas]

"We cannot become the person we long to be by ignoring the persons we have been."

- R.H, Prayerbook for the Days of Awe on #change

[Sarah Bleiwas @sarahbleiwas]

"Barn's burnt down, now I can see the moon." - Mizuta Masahid

"Evil is a throne for the good." - Ben Zoma

"There is no sunshine without shadow." - Albert Camus

#contrast #relativity #shadow #light

[Employment and Social Development Canada @ESDC_GC]

Did you lose work hours or workers because of the 2024 wildfires in Jasper or Bunibonibee Cree Nation?

📣 Employers and workers, find out more about temporary changes to the Work-Sharing Program that could help you! ➡️ https://t.co/PisyFcDL6I

[Sarah Bleiwas @sarahbleiwas]

Marshall McLuhan's 'rear view mirror effect':

What we perceive as the present is actually the past; and what we perceive as the future is actually the present.

#past #present #future via @jessehirsh @TCIS_Canada

[Employment and Social Development Canada @ESDC_GC]

We want to hear from you!

Minister Boissonnault launched a public engagement and wants to hear your thoughts on how to build a modern 21st-century workforce: https://t.co/mmEZClofO2

Comment before September 30, 2024.

[Sarah Bleiwas @sarahbleiwas]

"This is a most difficult and non-negotiable condition for a living rebuke; if we do not first love, we cannot criticize."

- Prayerbook for the Days of Awe, p. 1048, on #goodfaithdebate

[Sarah Bleiwas @sarahbleiwas]

"A 'live player' is a person or group of people that can do things differently from how they were approached in the past. That’s pretty rare. Most individuals and institutions are 'dead players'. They operate off social scripts handed down from previous generations." -@SamoBurja

[Sarah Bleiwas @sarahbleiwas]

@HoytMandy Thinking of and rooting for you. Life is totally the occasion!💗

[Sarah Bleiwas @sarahbleiwas]

"If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else's." - Jung

#confront #2023x #psychology

[Sarah Bleiwas @sarahbleiwas]

Once you understand something, you need to then attempt to transcend it by understanding its deficiencies.

#learning #history #future

[Sarah Bleiwas @sarahbleiwas]

~"As paradoxical as it may seem, defending tolerance requires to not tolerate intolerance."

https://t.co/FIDV9uyUfg

@KarlPopperThink #history #tolerence #empathy #empathylimits
#culturewars

[Sarah Bleiwas @sarahbleiwas]

“Think about evidence-building as continuous learning.” - @cscihak via @CASBSStanford

#evergreen #learning #policy