Tara McMullin

Nov 13, 2024 | sarahkpeck.substack.com | Tara McMullin

The stress of work can be especially tricky to describe for creative and knowledge workers who love what they do. That doesn't make it less real. “Oh, you’re a writer? So you sit at a computer all day? What exactly do you do?” Goodness, I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard this question, and how I’ve also wanted to know just what other creatives d…Keep reading with a 7-day free trialSubscribe to Sarah K Peck to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives.

Oct 24, 2024 | share.transistor.fm | Tara McMullin

Stop me if you've heard this before: we're overloaded and overwhelmed by information. There's more content than you could ever hope to consume. More scientific theories, philosophical concepts, and art forms than you could ever hope to engage with. Enter personal knowledge management (PKM). It's a modern term for an ancient practice—how one collects, preserves, and utilizes knowledge worth remembering.

Oct 16, 2024 | share.transistor.fm | Tara McMullin

In management cybernetics, there are 3 types of systems: simple, complex, and exceedingly complex. The systems we pay the most attention tend to be, you guessed it, exceedingly complex. In this episode, I explore what that means for how we do our work and run our businesses—and what happens when we forget that people are exceedingly complex systems, too.

Oct 10, 2024 | share.transistor.fm | Tara McMullin |Robin Wall Kimmerer

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Sep 25, 2024 | share.transistor.fm | Tara McMullin

We're constantly bombarded by data. And it's easy to think that with the right clues, we could answer the ultimate questions of life, the universe, and everything. But data aren't facts. They're not a secret code. Data are media—they mediate our interactions with the world around us. To make them useful and meaningful, we need a critical framework for working with data as media.