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Quinn McHugh (he/him)

@quinnmchugh.bsky.social

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🌟 Systems, data, plurality.net, collective intelligence / sensemaking, & social impact 🎵 Jazz fusion, funk, RnB, DnB 🌱 Former Community Organizer, Effective Altruism Philadelphia 🚴 Bicycled 4,230 miles across the USA 💸 10% Pledge since 2018

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Quinn McHugh (he/him) @quinnmchugh.bsky.social · 2d

Random resource drop 🪂🎁

A year of reading the world
ayearofreadingtheworld.com

Quinn McHugh (he/him) @quinnmchugh.bsky.social · Feb 6

Hot take: "America First" is an ideological virus - a national embodiment of America's anti-social, individualistic, "fuck you, I got mine" mentality. In a time when global cooperation is desperately needed to address the meta-crisis, "America First" translates to "our collective future last."

Quinn McHugh (he/him) @quinnmchugh.bsky.social · Jan 21

Hanzi Freinacht on redesigning society to optimize for "goals of the soul" instead of goals of industrial output.

#Society #InnerDevelopment #MoralProgress #Capitalism

Our current society is designed to achieve growth of industrial output and redistributing its spoils. Future society must expand upon today’s society’s way of functioning; its institutions must be geared towards achieving more psychological goals. More goals of the soul.

Quinn McHugh (he/him) @quinnmchugh.bsky.social · Jan 21

Hanzi Freinacht on society's capacity to manage complexity through the fostering of collective intelligence:

#Complexity #SocietalProgress #SystemsChange #SocialChange #CollectiveIntelligence

Quinn McHugh (he/him) @quinnmchugh.bsky.social · Jan 20

I tend to self-sabotage by manufacturing steps I "need" to take before I can achieve big scary goal (TM). This is something I'm trying to unlearn by asking questions like "how could I achieve this in 6 months as opposed to 5 years?"

#SelfSabotage #CareerDevelopment #BeingAgile #Agency #CareerPath

The days of mapping an entire career path are over. You do not have to specify the details of your life five moves or five years out. Consider what you were doing five years ago. Did you have any idea where you would be today? The challenge now is to be present. In doing so, we stay awake to the dots that are right in front of us.

Quinn McHugh (he/him) @quinnmchugh.bsky.social · Jan 20

Jenny Blake on overcoming career stagnation by clarifying your "North Star" / essential intent.

#Career #CareerDevelopment #CareerPivot #Stagnation

Quinn McHugh (he/him) @quinnmchugh.bsky.social · Jan 19

Jenny Blake on being agile amidst life's challenges:

#Career #Essentialism #AntiUnhappiness

One of the keys to being agile in life is knowing how to quickly find your way back to equilibrium. It is difficult, if not impossible, to pivot from a place of anxiety or unhappiness. Your ability to proceed with the next Pivot stages will be severely hampered if you are weighed down by people, habits, an environment, or activities that drain you.

Quinn McHugh (he/him) @quinnmchugh.bsky.social · Jan 19

This moment is a gift. That's why it's called the present.

#Mindfulness #Gratitude #Presence

Quinn McHugh (he/him) @quinnmchugh.bsky.social · Dec 18

Have you ever gazed at the countless manicured plots of grass dotting our landscape and wondered, "why?" This lovely short documentary explores the concept of the lawn and it's impacts on our health and the world we call home.
https://buff.ly/4gjjD17

The devastating cost of America’s favorite plant | A guide to the revolution

Lawns are slowly choking us to death. This is a handmade blueprint for unf*cking our land.subscribe for moreunsubscribe for lessChapters:0:00 Intro1:34 Drast...

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Quinn McHugh (he/him) @quinnmchugh.bsky.social · Dec 8

Don't strive for happiness, strive for anti-unhappiness.

"Ultimate quantification of success? For me, it’s not how much time you spend doing what you love. It’s how little time you spend doing what you hate.

Quinn McHugh (he/him) @quinnmchugh.bsky.social · Nov 24

From now on, when you have a conflict with someone, ask yourself: (a) What am I perceiving? (b) What are they perceiving? (c) Is there a mismatch?

Quinn McHugh (he/him) @quinnmchugh.bsky.social · Nov 20

Just a couple of months! I don't use it very extensively. I just post about resonant content here and there.

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Quinn McHugh (he/him) @quinnmchugh.bsky.social · Nov 5

Why you might want to consider voting even if you think you're not civically obligated to:
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Why is voting important if you care about social impact?

Do the odds your vote is decisive make it rational to vote, given the vast power governments wield?

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Quinn McHugh (he/him) @quinnmchugh.bsky.social · Nov 4

If this format is interesting to you, you might find The Long Game Project intriguing: longgameproject.org/about/

About

WHAT IS THE LGP? THE LONG GAME PROJECT AIMS TO IMPROVE INSTITUTIONAL DECISION-MAKING, PLANNING AND CREATIVE THINKING USING TABLETOP EXERCISES AND SCENARIOS. WHAT ARE TABLETOP EXERCISES? Tabletop exerc...

longgameproject.org

Quinn McHugh (he/him) @quinnmchugh.bsky.social · Nov 4

Vivek Murphy on serving others:

#Service #Care #Attention #Compassion

If we look around us, we'll find that there are many ways in which we can serve. Serving isn't always volunteering at a soup kitchen or volunteering to build homes with Habitat for Humanity, as powerful as those methods of serving are. But service can also be calling a friend who you know may be struggling to balance work and kids and could use a pick-me-up or could just use the knowledge that somebody has looking out for them. Service can be checking on a neighbor who might be elderly and struggling. Service can be helping a colleague at work who might be having a tough day, just bringing them a coffee or stopping to say, hey, I want to know how you're doing. And then actually pausing to listen to what they have to say. In one of the greatest gifts that we can give another person is the gift of our full attention.

Quinn McHugh (he/him) @quinnmchugh.bsky.social · Nov 4

Came across this phenomenal program from PBS today. I'd love to see more of this DnD-style, scenario-based role play with influential people possessing varied social perspectives and backgrounds.

youtu.be/Up2pSBUdswk?...

How Would You Respond to These Ethical Dilemmas? | DEADLOCK: An Election Story | Full Episode | PBS

YouTube video by PBS

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Quinn McHugh (he/him) @quinnmchugh.bsky.social · Nov 4

Cynthia Rayner & François Bonnici on the role of institutions in achieving (or stunting) societal progress:

#Institutions #SocietalProgress #SocialImagination

these pervasive norms and beliefs calcify into values that no longer work for us, or prevent us from assuming new ways of being and behaving that will work better for our societies as they evolve and change. They create cultures of exclusion and derision, and bolster prejudices and injustices. Our institutions fail us when they entrench our beliefs and behaviors to the extent that we cannot only not change, we cannot even imagine change.

Quinn McHugh (he/him) @quinnmchugh.bsky.social · Oct 6

Greg McKeowen on choosing your life's pursuits:

#Attention #Focus #Goals #Prioritization #Acceptance #Commitment

Quinn McHugh (he/him) @quinnmchugh.bsky.social · Oct 3

Nassim Nicholas Taleb on being lucky:

#Success #Failure #Achievemeny #SelfServingBias

Quinn McHugh (he/him) @quinnmchugh.bsky.social · Oct 3

Nassim Nicholas Taleb on success:

#Success #SurvivorshipBias #Luck

Mild success can be explainable by skills and labor. Wild success is attributable to variance.

Quinn McHugh (he/him) @quinnmchugh.bsky.social · Oct 2

Ashley Lin on being the change you wish to see in the world:

#Agency #SocialChange #Power #Motivation

Stop waiting for celebrities to use their platforms, corporations to take action, or politicians to get elected and “do the right thing.” The truth is the vast majority of what can be done to better the world does not depend on the decisions people in power make. People are power. You give power, create power, and have power to build a brighter future.

Quinn McHugh (he/him) @quinnmchugh.bsky.social · Sep 22

Came across this video on an /r/MensLib post: Cult survivor Kristiana Miner shares how extreme ideologies can justify abuse, control, and patriarchy, recounting her experience growing up in the Quiverfull movement.

https://buff.ly/3ZxGbp2

#Beliefs #Ideology #Patriarchy

Growing Up Quiverfull - The Duggar's Destructive Cult

An interview with cult survivor Kristiana Miner about her involvement in the Quiverfull movement, Bill Gothard's destructive cult and the influence of Michae...

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Quinn McHugh (he/him) @quinnmchugh.bsky.social · Sep 14

The Happy Urbanist on how individual safety is a function of a space's "liminality" - The more daily activity a space has, the less likely it is for crime to occur there.

#UrbanDesign #CrimePrevention #CityPlanning

TikTok · The Happy Urbanist

88.3K likes, 824 comments. “#stitch with @danielle hendricks Part 2 in the Chicago series: Liminal spaces.”

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Quinn McHugh (he/him) @quinnmchugh.bsky.social · Sep 13

"Science progresses one funeral at a time," as they say.

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Quinn McHugh (he/him) @quinnmchugh.bsky.social · Sep 13

Well said! Developing frameworks and classification schemes to understand the world is valuable, but it's important to recognize the tendency for these artifacts to reinforce themselves, creating a less favorable environment for new perspectives to take hold.

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