Activism

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“I’ve spent years and years trying to articulate this stuff.”

I spoke the words out loud to no one as I finished the last line of Change By Design by Tim Brown and Barry Katz. My next thought as I dropped the book on the table was, “If I had read this book when I first heard about it  in 2009, I would’ve saved myself a lot of time and energy”.

But hindsight is always 20/20. I’m working on not having to experience everything first hand in order to learn it. Life is more enjoyable when I can learn first from the successes and failures of others, and through experience as a final resort.

As a 29-year-old blockhead, I probably wouldn’t have grokked much. Three years of trial by fire later, I basically inhaled the book.

Here’s my “review”/”book interview”. Enjoy! [Read More…]

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