2026-03-22 05:19:04
I will be speaking on Sunday at BSides on "Power Dynamics in Security Leadership: a legato leitmotif lullaby on leading lightly and luminously"
Sunday 4:25pm, AMC Theatre 12
#BSidesSF
I will be speaking on Sunday at BSides on "Power Dynamics in Security Leadership: a legato leitmotif lullaby on leading lightly and luminously"
Sunday 4:25pm, AMC Theatre 12
#BSidesSF
“This workforce has been fundamentally traumatized in the way that this leadership team said that they intended to do at the outset,”
Max Stier, Partnership for Public Service’s CEO, told Government Executive.
“That’s not good for anyone. It’s bad for the workforce, it’s fundamentally bad for the American people, and it will lead to us to be less safe, healthy and prosperous as a society.
The things that we want and need from government are not what we’ll get.”
The su…
'Jarring disconnect': Maine voters at odds with Democratic leadership in high-stakes Senate primary (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/video/-jarring-disconnect-maine-voters-at-odds-with-democratic-leadership-in-high-stakes-senate-primary-261737541537
http://www.memeorandum.com/260420/p157#a260420p157
"Society functions like a hive, where no single actor directs the whole, yet a coherent pattern emerges from the interaction of countless parts."
"This does not mean that leadership, institutions, or strategy are irrelevant. It means that they are not sufficient to explain historical outcomes on their own."
"History…It is made in the accumulated choices of ordinary people, acting within the constraints and possibilities of their own lived realities.&quo…
Every Womyn & Her Dog
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I've mentioned it before, and I'm sure I will again, but, as much as there's a reason why I reject Christianity, there were also a lot of good things. Churches have governing bodies (with varying degrees of democratic representation) that guide the ministry (preaching and actions) as well as managing logistics (building maintenance, accounting, etc). This provides opportunities for self-governed collective action.
Quakers are the most radical in terms of this, and are basically anarchists. Quaker circles often meet at people's houses and can be as small as 3 people. There is often no leadership. A Quaker service could easily just be everyone sitting in a circle and someone talking at one point.
I grew up in a Presbyterian church, and one of my first jobs (at 11 or 12) was landscaping there. Within the church there were a lot of different trades, which meant that you could volunteer time and learn basically any kind of maintenance. Basically everything that needed to be done was done in-house. This also meant that if you needed a plumber, an electrician, etc, that you could pick one from within the church.
I remember painting the church, learning how to paint, with a bunch of other members of the congregation at a work party. I also remember being volunteered for child care during choir. There were a few rooms around that were used for different things, such as music practice. But these rooms could be made available for any type of community activity. This can actually include community organizing. In fact, Seattle GDC was offered an occasional space for organizing in a church (we didn't take it, but appreciated the offer), and that same church hosted a lot of other community events. I actually went to a queer relationships skills class once hosted in a church, which was great.
What I'm saying is that churches often act as a kind of parallel society up-to-and-including acting as dual power structures....
Friday Links 26-03
This week I enjoyed the podcast about Venezuela, the blog post about asking, and the one from Lara Hogan about employees getting stuck.
https://christof.damian.net/2026/01/fr
Disney's incoming president Dana Walden unveils new Disney Entertainment leadership, including elevating Debra OConnell as chairman of Entertainment TV (Nellie Andreeva/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/03/dana-walden-disney-entertain…
Pollinators of Privilege — https://www.brichapman.com/p/pollinators-of-privilege?utm_source=bri-mastodon&utm_medium=social&src=mstdn
Trump extends ceasefire indefinitely as Iran says it won’t join talks now
Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he would extend a ceasefire with Iran
hours before it was due to expire,
pledging to refrain from attacks until discussions with Tehran “are concluded, one way or the other.”
Trump said Iran’s leadership was “seriously fractured” and needed to “come up with a unified proposal.”
Trump made the announcement of an indefinite ceasefire as talks scheduled t…
"Librarian Leadership in the Age of AI"
https://doi.org/10.5860/ital.v45i1.17659
"Librarians have managed and lived through many seismic shifts brought by technology. How should librarian leaders approach the coming anticipated AI workforce disruption?"
After many years as a staunch fence-sitter/political neutral, I voted in two previous political leadership races. The first was the 2020 Green leadership race. I was excited to support a candidate, and was then horrified to find out he was a Russian propagandist claiming to be a ‘anti-imperialist’. You can figure out who that is on your own lol. Have fun :)
The second leadership race I participated in was the BC NDP race that pitted David Eby against Anjali Appadurai.
She was treated horribly, and I would say with fear, by the BC NDP leadership. She could have been a sea change in real social progressive leadership in BC and Canada but was pushed out.
She's working for Avi Lewis’ campaign.
Every one of the NDP leadership debates to date, even the catastrophic French-language debate last fall, have made me think that if more us gave the party a chance, we might just be alright.
An internal BBC survey: 34% of workers said they had confidence in the executive leadership, down from 46% in 2025; 43% were "excited" about the BBC's future (Jake Kanter/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/04/bbc-staff-confidence…
It's "important that she spell out exactly how a Rayner leadership would differ from Starmer on Gaza, on public ownership, Treasury rules, house-building, military spending and more."
Left must put pressure on Rayner | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/articl
RE: https://mastodon.social/@workchronicles/116260028658995411
If this is the decision making process on your project, it means your project is fucked.
Yes, I have suffered through those projects. They mean project leadership is incompetent. I…
Ähnlichkeiten mit dem Challenger-Unglück liegen auf der Hand.
NASA Chief Classifies Starliner Flight As 'Type A' Mishap, Says Agency Made Mistakes - Slashdot https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/0…
Palantir moves its HQ from Denver to Miami, as the city's leadership aims to turn it into the next Silicon Valley, with backing of billionaires like Ken Griffin (Pierre Paulden/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-…
The V-formation maps cleanly to how we think about leadership: someone sets direction, others align behind. But the murmuration model — distributed, adaptive, leaderless — might be closer to how real teams work. https://www.poppastring.com/blog/leadership-from-birds
Andrew Luck and Bruce Arians weren’t expected to win together. Here’s how they did anyway https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7195812/2026/04/15/andrew-luck-bruce-arians-leadership-colts/
Joel Webbon says God punishes rebellious nations by putting women in political leadership
because "nothing hurts more."
https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/joel-webbon-says-women-political-leadership-sign-gods-judgm…
Iran's leadership DESTROYED "IN ABOUT AN HOUR": Trump SHOCKS with Middle East operation details: https://benborges.xyz/2026/03/02/irans-leadership-destroyed-ampquotin-about.html
RE: #avilewis ) see a bump in those
We just found out our AI has been making up analytics data for 3 months and I’m gonna throw up.
Support
So we’ve been using an AI agent since November to answer leadership questions about metrics. It seemed amazing at first fast answers, detailed explanations, everyone loved it.
I just found out it’s been hallucinating numbers this entire time.
Our VP of sales made territory decisions based on data that didn’t exist. Our CFO showed the board …
The US succeeds at regime change in Iran as Khamenei replaces Khamenei.
165 dead schoolgirls is sometimes the price you have to pay for such things.
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2026/3/8/who-is-mojtaba-khamenei-a-conte…
reminder that no matter how funny that translator may be, generative AI is still awful and immoral and Kagi kinda sucks balls too[1]. thank you for your attention
1. https://d-shoot.net/kagi.html
The Leader's Handbook Study Series
https://www.in2in.org/shop/p/the-leadership-handbook-study-series
In his forward to the Leader’s Handbook Ackoff offers a format to study the book which we will follow in these sessions:
“I suggest a small group …
Israel Is Hunting Down Iranian Regime Members in Their Hideouts, One by One (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/israel-iran-leadership-528c6114?st=YoQu1w
http://www.memeorandum.com/260318/p29#a260318p29
I think I need to put into my talk this line that keeps running through my head
So many leaders want people to trust them, which is exactly backwards
In organizations, positions are typically appointed through the hierarchy and authority of the organization. However, like trust, "leadership" is earned: slowly built and quickly lost.
Asking how to earn trust means admitting you have failed, and more importantly means committing to a change. If you don't uphold…
Christine Fréchette is Quebec’s next premier after winning CAQ leadership
Fréchette beats out Bernard Drainville to become leader of the governing party
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-new-premier-leadership-race-caq-9.7157880
Check out my latest article - "Liberatory Leadership: how to lead without authority"
https://www.brichapman.com/p/liberatory-leadership-how-to-lead?utm_source=bri-mastodon&utm_medium=social&src=mstdn
Police chiefs failed to tackle racism due to lack of leadership, watchdog finds | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/apr/01/police-chiefs-failed-to-tackle-racism-due-to-lack-of-leadership-watchdog-fi…
Friday Links 26-10
The podcast about culture is great, so is the one with the creator of Kotlin.
@…'s techno set is pretty great too.
https://christof.damian.net/2026…
MLA 27 - Medieval Studies, Leadership, and Public Humanities Advocacy https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/02/08/mla-27-medieval-studies-leadership-and-public-humanities-advocacy
Blender mögen sinnentleerte Phrasen. Jetzt auch wissenschaftlich belegt: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWRlF4clBEO/?igsh=MXc3YzgxbzZiejM5dA==
Just published 🚀: Leadership from Birds
#leadership
You.com appoints Saahil Jain as new CTO after co-founder Bryan McCann left to Anthropic; You.com, which began in consumer search, is targeting enterprise more (Kevin McLaughlin/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/ai-st…
One of the main areas of pushback that Republican leadership in Congress has faced in trying to pass an extension of "section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act" (Fisa) is push to keep the bill “clean”,
-- despite GOP hardliners insisting that reforms and additions are needed.
Some members of the conference, like Representative Anna Paulina Luna, a Republican from Florida, have said that
if Donald Trump’s sweeping voter ID bill ends up falling off th…
I’m almost done reading Careless People. And here I thought I couldn’t think less of Meta leadership than I already did. Silly me.
On The Mic...WIT Shaz - Women In Tech Leadership: The Upsides
Dedicated to inspiring and empowering more women in tech to enter into and remain in C-suite, Exec and leadership roles and to encourage this we need to be talking more about the upsides of being in tech leadership roles...
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Zelensky orders 'purges' at Ukraine’s Security Service amid anti-corruption probe and leadership shake-up: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/17/zelensky-orders-purges-at-ukraines.html
Friday Links 26-13
I caught up with my YouTube, two good videos from NotJustBikes about cars and oil being bad.
I really liked all the links in leadership this week, all highly recommended.
https://christof.damian.net/2026/04/friday-links-26-13.html
RFK Jr. shakes up leadership team (Shawn Zeller/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/12/rfk-jr-shakes-up-leadership-team-00779554
http://www.memeorandum.com/260212/p115#a260212p115
Fourteen months after
Robert F Kennedy Jr was sworn in
as US health secretary,
the country’s prime public health agency over which he presides
is in a state of disarray.
Eighty per cent of the top director positions at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) stand vacant,
with no permanent leader to drive policies affecting the health of millions of Americans.
No one is in place to coordinate the agency’s day-to-day work fighting infecti…
Lenore Taylor, editor of Guardian Australia, is leaving the outlet after 13 years in senior roles and 10 years as editor; David Munk will serve as acting editor (Amanda Meade/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb
“President Trump exhibits what forensic mental health experts have, across dozens of independent assessments, identified as the ‘Dark Triad’ of personality traits: narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy … Rather than constituting a clinical diagnosis, this trait-based assessment is grounded in behavioral observation and is particularly useful for assessing the level of danger an individual poses in a political leadership position. We do not offer this as a clinical verdict. We offer i…
"‘Weakening climate leadership’: Is the EU’s 2040 emissions target ambitious enough?"
#EU #EuropeanUnion #Climate
Tension builds ahead of NFLPA leadership vote https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48179641/jc-tretter-nflpa-executive-director-vote-election
Memo: Satya Nadella says ex-Snap executive Jacob Andreou will lead Copilot for commercial and consumer clients; Mustafa Suleyman will focus on new AI models (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/17/microsoft-copilot-ai-suleyman.html
MLA 27 - Medieval Studies, Leadership, and Public Humanities Advocacy https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/02/08/mla-27-medieval-studies-leadership-and-public-humanities-advocacy
N.I.H. Director Will Temporarily Run C.D.C. in Leadership Shake-Up (Sheryl Gay Stolberg/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/us/politics/bhattacharya-kennedy-cdc-director.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260218/p79#a260218p79
Comics platform GlobalComix raised $13M, following a $6.5M raise in 2023, and acquires digital manga platform INKR, adding 200K volumes of Asian comics (Rob Salkowitz/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/robsalkowitz/
When a company moves its headquarters, it's making a statement
— whether leadership spells it out or not.
That's the case with #Palantir's surprise announcement Tuesday
that it has relocated its home base to Florida from Colorado.
The defense-tech contractor disclosed the change in a one-sentence press release citing a new address just outside Miami.
Palantir, le…
Sources: Sequoia raised ~$7B for a new fund, the first fundraising round under its new leadership; the firm's last expansion fund was a $3.4B vehicle in 2022 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04…
EMpowered
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It was hard to leave my teams and the small Cloud Security org that I grew, but days like this are why it was worth it
After 5 years at Netflix, I've sorely needed time off to recover. I'm deeply proud of the work that Netflix Cloud Security did, and I will miss them
In a few months, I will be looking for a security leadership role at an organization that aligns with my values
Meanwhile, I'm glad to finally feel calm, safe, and secure
Friday Links 26-12
Two weeks of links. A lot of AI related articles again. I liked the paper about using chatbots in leadership, and the one about the YAML of the mind.
If you want a podcast, check out the one about night trains.
https://christof.damian.net/2026/04/fri…
Calls to Impeach Trump Collide With Reluctant Democratic Leadership (Time)
https://time.com/article/2026/04/09/calls-to-impeach-trump-collide-with-reluctant-democratic-leadership/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260410/p36#a260410p36
I drank beers with Mike Vrabel the week before the Super Bowl. This is what I learned https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7021513/2026/02/05/mike-vrabel-patriots-coach-super-bowl-leadership/
Cuba's latest blackout underscores its deepening economic crisis as Rubio calls for new leadership (Milexsy Duršn/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/cuba-power-outage-electricity-trump-28db6c460ed84df539a574bed16a819d
http://www.memeorandum.com/260317/p63#a260317p63
OpenAI's economic agenda is oddly socialist and wildly hypocritical, and is largely undermined by OpenAI's support for Republicans who attack welfare programs (Eric Levitz/Vox)
https://www.vox.com/politics/485461/openai-economic-policy-superpac-sam-altm…
Mike Vrabel's leadership got the Patriots to the Super Bowl, but it wasn’t enough to win https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7032318/2026/02/09/mike-vrabel-patriots-seahawks-super-bowl-60/
On Saturday, former Trump administration official and radical Christian nationalist
William Wolfe delivered a speech at Bethel Church in Petersburg, West Virginia, entitled
"Five Popular Lies About Faith & Politics."
Wolfe, who now runs the Center For Baptist Leadership
and has become an increasingly fanatical anti-immigrant activist,
openly admitted that the goal of Christian nationalists is to
👉gain political power and
💥impose their m…
The Latest Blows to Iran's Leadership (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/world/middleeast/killings-iran-leadership.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260406/p72#a260406p72
Was that messy Bills press conference really a ‘disaster’? A former owner and GM weigh in https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7004536/2026/01/29/terry-pegula-brandon-beane-keon-coleman-leadership-analysis/
After a wet January and February, Carrizo Plain National Monument has entered superbloom
The mountain ranges have been flowering for weeks.
The valley floor has begun to follow.
And if the weather holds,
the display could stretch into early April.
https://www.
Trump's leadership restores US influence in Latin America (Peter Laffin/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/4447336/trump-leadership-restores-us-influence-latin-america/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260206/p55#a260206p55
Trump appears to careen between two opposing visions for victory in Iran:
He has demanded Tehran’s “unconditional surrender”
and also has signaled that he might abruptly declare victory and leave.
Neither scenario is likely to end this war, because neither reflects any real understanding of the adversary.
Washington appears to have begun the conflict on the assumption that sustained military pressure would either collapse the Iranian regime or force its leadership to…
TRANSCRIPT: Leader Schumer, Leader Jeffries, And Democratic Leadership Call For Oversight And Accountability To End The Violence And Rein In ICE (The Senate Democratic Caucus)
https://www.democrats.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/transcript-leader-schumer-leader-jeffries-and-democratic-leadership-call-for-oversight-and-accountability-to-end-the-violence-and-rein-in-ice
http://www.memeorandum.com/260205/p84#a260205p84
Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Todd M. Lyons submitted his resignation Thursday,
capping his leadership of one of the agency’s most tumultuous eras,
saying he wanted to spend more time with his family.
Lyons, a career ICE official, presided over the agency’s rapid expansion
to implement Trump’s mass deportation campaign.
ICE more than doubled its workforce and detention beds,
deported people to countries where they are not citizens, …
White House is expected to shake up more leadership roles at Justice Department, sources say (Sarah N. Lynch/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/white-house-shake-up-more-leadership-roles-justice-department/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260404/p51#a260404p51
It’s Justin Pearson,
Democrat running for Congress in TN-09.
𝘕𝘖𝘛𝘜𝘚 named our race as one of the 2026 primaries to watch — and they’re right:
our race is already drawing 𝘢 𝘭𝘰𝘵 of national attention.
I’m running for Congress because Memphis and TN-09 deserve leadership that stays close to its People,
speaks the truth,
and fights like our families’ lives depend on it — because they do.
If you believe in leadership that’s rooted in the People, I’m hoping…
LEADERS JEFFRIES AND SCHUMER DELIVER URGENT ICE REFORM DEMANDS TO REPUBLICAN LEADERSHIP (Chuck Schumer/Congressman Hakeem Jeffries)
https://jeffries.house.gov/2026/02/04/leaders-jeffries-and-schumer-deliver-urgent-ice-reform-demands-to-republican-leadership/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260205/p34#a260205p34
Canada’s left-leaning
New Democratic Party (NDP)
has elected a new leader,
someone whose campaign drew comparisons to the politics and style of U.S. figures like
Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Zohran Mamdani.
On March 29, the NDP elected
Avi Lewis on the first round of balloting
with 55 percent of the vote in his first successful political campaign.
The NDP was decimated in the April 2025 federal election.
Former leader Jag…
Trump says Iran's succession bench wiped out as Israeli strike hits leadership deliberations (Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-says-irans-succession-bench-wiped-out-israeli-strike-hits-leadership-deliberations
http://www.memeorandum.com/260303/p107#a260303p107
Secretary of Health Robert F Kennedy Jr, is currently testifying before the House Ways and Means committee,
about his leadership of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the White House budget request for the 2027 fiscal year.
Donald Trump’s blueprint pushes lawmakers to appropriate funding to establish the Administration for a Healthy America (AHA).
This is health secretary Kennedy’s planned consolidation of many subagencies whose workforces he slashed las…
White House sidesteps vaccine skeptics in potential CDC leadership reset (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/04/16/erica-schwartz-cdc-director-trump-vaccines/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260416/p17#a260416p17
Several Republican lawmakers are ramping up anti-Muslim comments
and facing little to no response from their leadership.
"Muslims don't belong in American society," Rep. Andy Ogles posted on Monday. "Pluralism is a lie."
The Tennessee Republican, whose seat is in a safe red district,
has previously expressed support for banning immigration from Muslim-majority countries
and said in a speech last year that "America is and must always b…
House GOP leadership silent as more members post anti-Muslim statements (Barbara Sprunt/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2026/03/14/g-s1-113667/republicans-sharia-law-andy-ogles-mike-johnson
http://www.memeorandum.com/260314/p51#a260314p51
The State Leadership Initiative (SLI),
is a policy-focused organization that investigates and counters the influence of progressive ideologies
—specifically Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) standards
and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) policies
—within state-level bureaucracies and government,
particularly in conservative "red" states.
🔸Focus on Policy Influence: SLI investigates how national associations and "shadow gov…
Amy Klobuchar's governor run sets up Senate leadership shakeup (Calen Razor/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/01/29/congress/amy-klobuchar-senate-leadership-00755417
http://www.memeorandum.com/260129/p150#a260129p150
Search for: -- Thanks to the leadership and vision of President Donald J. Trump ... (President Donald J. Trump/The White House)
https://www.whitehouse.gov/maritimemight/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260214/p1#a260214p1
Rep. Lofgren to Noem:
You know there's an old adage that states there are no bad dogs, just bad owners.
One of the questions we have is,
are there bad agencies or just bad leadership?
https://bsky.app/profile/rachelbitecofer.bsky.social/post/3mg…
Scoop: House Democrats told by leadership not to go to Minnesota (Andrew Solender/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/29/minnesota-minneapolis-democrats-travel-leadership
http://www.memeorandum.com/260128/p132#a260128p132
Tillis to Noem:
"A 14 month old dog is basically a teenager in dog years.
You decided to kill that dog because you hadn't invested the appropriate training,
then you have the audacity to write a book & say it's a leadership lesson! ...
Those are bad decisions not unlike what happened in Minneapolis"
Exclusive: Grenell expected to shift out of Kennedy Center leadership on Monday (Alex Isenstadt/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/13/grenell-kennedy-center-president-renovation
http://www.memeorandum.com/260313/p98#a260313p98
'This is not serious leadership': Donald Trump and Marco Rubio watch UFC in Miami as Iran talks fail (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/apr/12/donald-trump-marco-rubio-ufc-iran-war
http://www.memeorandum.com/260412/p44#a260412p44
Pam Bondi lashes out as lawmakers press her on Epstein, cases against Trump foes
Attorney General Pam Bondi combatively defended her leadership at the Justice Department to House lawmakers on Wednesday
amid sharp criticism that she botched the release of the Epstein files and has wielded the nation’s most powerful law enforcement agency to heed Donald Trump’s calls to prosecute his political foes.
In exchange after exchange,
Bondi lobbed brash insults when Democrat…