March Edition

At an end of February dinner with off-tech organizers to celebrate community wins, I learn collective agency tastes like ladled bowls of homemade chili. Proposals drafted for prospective clients alchemize legal services into bottled elixirs of equanimity. I embark on a new project to demonstrate reading progress that is not captured by assessments designed to measure speed and misrepresented by the linear nature of curriculum. 

Along with the remainder of the half-finished drinks I help drain, over 150 people trickle out of telos.haus after a night of phone-free connection. An automated workflow breaks during an external demo, but Emad Ansari, Principal Counsel at Ansari Legal, is Yhprum's Law personified. The results from a student’s DIBELS assessment indicate an insignificant change in words per minute (wpm) from the initial session. 

I am seated next to an artist constructing a poster for Let’s Get Off Together, each laid piece of the collage a reminder that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. New members join the firm’s band amidst compliance listening tour stops. A parent asks me to conduct a reading assessment to measure progress over the last month. 

It is the start of February and I am charting how to answer which path I should eliminate. I do not yet know how to ask better questions.

Until next month,

Judy