I think I'm starting to get it
I have a longer article on nuclear families and systemic violence and units of care, but it's taking me a while. In the process of writing it though, I had a...
Ground Rules
Burnout Week 6 (link to my "I'm burned out and taking a break" post for context) When I started planning my break, the one thing I knew was essential was...
Walking Through Hell Like I Own the Place
The one where Betts gets really personal about the messy, emotional part of burnout. If you are triggered easily by topics of death, abuse, and incarceration...
The Time I Have
Yesterday I got up and inexplicably had energy. I drank my coffee. I did my yoga. Then I went downstairs to get breakfast. In typical spicy-brain fashion,...
It Was The Org Chart All Along
From Scott D Clary (whom I do not from Adam) Let's begin with the fact that I actually agree with this. You enter a room on your own two feet and you get to...
Yes, she's still talking about burnout recovery
Betts! How is the Sabbatical? The answer is generally – great! I'm feeling more myself and really glad I've done this. But really? I am reading. Just...
Betts Burnout Bonanza Week 3
The longer version On cognitive load, somatic release, and why a vacation was never going to be enough. My husband said something about time hurtling at...
The Existential Threat Will Arrive By Noon
I saw another hate-on-the-poors video today on Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mgqa5yjxc22c The tl;dv is Sen Jon Husted from Ohio...
The Labor Commons Has to Save Itself
A follow-up on who actually has to do the work Yesterday, I made an appeal to the owner class. I laid out the case for why labor — as a commons resource —...
The Labor commons
Labor is an exhaustible resource. That is not a metaphor, Dear Reader. A systems-level observation that the owner class has somehow avoided internalizing...
A confession - I'm not an organized person
I am not as organized as I appear. Sure, I am literally the Director of CS Operations as my day job. I’ve kept a cadre of kids alive to the late teen years...
