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Rachel Happe
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I enjoy the absurdity of humanity. Perfect is boring. Things to say about communities, tech, culture, leadership, L&D, and social dynamics. Writing a book titled Control Is for Amateurs. Founder of Engaged Organizations. Prior, The Community Roundtable.
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Here are some great people to follow if you are interested in #FutureOfWork discussions.

Note: includes many perspectives including HR, tech, L&D, media, politics, economics, & other humanities.

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My teenager intimidates me.

Mostly because she is very grumpy, but also because she likes big jumps 😳
And yet, people are breathless o er it… 🤦🏻‍♀️
This is wild.

That a car company has to sell us on having a car, rather than just considering one car over another, is a sign that the hold cars have on us is waning.

My analyst brain is always alert to these seemingly small early indicators of shifts and change.
Trapped in traffic and stuck travelling long distances to work because of car-centric planning?

Be grateful, says Mercedes-Benz’s latest advert which aims to persuade us that spending two years of our lives stuck inside a car is somehow actually a good thing.
I got an email about how customers may no longer be human.

I’m not sure whether to laugh, cry, or ask for clarification.

What is the point of an economy where AI creates “products” that other AI then markets and sells that other AI then buys and… presumably… uses?
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Not nearly enough people think the 🤡 is dangerous - but it’s nearly twice what it was.

Keep going! #NoKings

www.cnn.com/2025/10/22/p...
These types of convoluted and overlapping relationships are a form of lock-in/monopoly that should be regulated.
Let’s trigger a negative feedback loop then - and watch the fun!
WEIL: “.. Circularity can be virtuous on the upside, and vicious on the downside. The deals can work fine, until they don’t.”

@wsj.com $NVDA $ORCL
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This is customer acquisition/engagement by extortion.
That plus the double-dipping on fees is really eye-opening.

I just shared with my husband who works at a foundation and with many local nfps here in Boston - and on a local community site.

Thank you!
Involved in a local nfp or charity?

You may want to check and see if GoFundMe has set up a page for it without the organization’s consent or awareness.
They mined public data to set up the pages, left their 'additional tip' of 16.5% on as default, didn't notify the organisations, and set the SEO feature on - creaming off profits, outranking org URLs on organic search and AI-generated results. And there's more...

sfist.com/2025/10/18/g...
GoFundMe Creates Placeholder Pages for 1.4 Million Nonprofits, Many Without Their Knowledge
Friends of the San Bruno Public Library discovered that GoFundMe created a donation page for it to “claim” without notifying its office. The site made 1.4 million such placeholder pages, which need to...
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Oh wow - first I am seeing thus. Yikes.
I don’t know how we elected 🤡 a second time because in his first term we would wake up every day to some kind of chaos.

Now, emboldened, the chaos has escalated to harm-at-scale on a daily basis, across every sector of society.

No one believed the outrageousness of Project 2025.
Absolutely outrageous!! 😡
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"You can just say no"

We all need to internalize this better
I was with a panel of people who were all making good arguments about why AI will never replace this or that skill or job, so maybe we'll be okay, and I finally said to one teacher: "you can just say no. you don't have to use it. it steals from people and teaches no skills. it's not a good tool."
But that same chaos may provide a defense ring that we desperately need.
It is interesting - infinitely infuriating at some level but hard to break and protective at another level. I have though about this too, especially given the shifting information environment which makes it very confusing (we see all the different rules)
This says everything about how the wealthy have grossly manipulated the United States using racism and fear-mongering, that in spite of staggering economic growth, the vast majority of Americans are much worse off than in 1981.

Racism and fear hurts us all in the end.
Who would gave imagined? 🤦🏻‍♀️

For me, this goes under the category of “If you don’t have a uterus, you shouldn’t have an opinion,” because it’s going to kill us.
Our analysis, which shows that more women nearly bled to death during miscarriage after Texas banned abortion, adds to a growing body of reporting revealing that maternal outcomes have gotten worse under bans.

(Published July)
By @andreasuozzo.com, Kavitha Surana and Lizzie Presser
Miscarriage Is Increasingly Dangerous for Women in Texas, Our Analysis Shows. Here’s How We Did It.
Using seven years of hospital discharge data, we found that the number of blood transfusions during emergency room visits for first-trimester miscarriage shot up by 54% since Texas banned abortion.
www.propublica.org
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The best time to abolish ICE would have been in 2021. The next best time is if we win in 2028. At this point, any Democrat unwilling to abolish ICE must be drummed out of the primary.
ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase.

The President is building an army to attack his own country.
If you are interested in #engagement, #communities of practice, #KM, or facilitation, or governance I shared some of my recommendations and research yesterday with the SIKM community.

Build a trellis, not a cage.
Recording of October 21, 2025 SIKM Leaders Community monthly call: Rachel Happe - Community of Practice Success Factors
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- Slides 1drv.ms/b/c/e7fcf906...
- Group Chat sikm.groups.io/g/main/messa...
#KM #KnowledgeManagement #SIKM #CommunityOfPractice
Conference Recording Ref #112
October 21, 2025 10:54 AM US/Eastern
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Thank you for hosting and inviting me to present Stan!
More of this please - from the side of the isle that keeps the puppet propped up.