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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
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New Incentives is a charity that provides cash incentives to boost childhood vaccination rates in Nigeria, offering cost-effective lifesaving interventions backed by evidence.

New Incentives
www.newincentives.org

#Resource #Charity #GlobalHealth #CashTransfers
November 27, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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SCiO is an international community for systems thinking practitioners offering resources, events, and training to advance organisational complexity management.

SCiO - Systems and Complexity in Organisation
www.systemspractice.org

#Resource #SystemsThinking #Complexity
November 27, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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The Center for Election Science advocates for better voting methods to enhance democratic outcomes and voter understanding.

The Center for Election Science
www.youtube.com/channel/U…

#Resource #ElectionScience #VotingMethods #Democracy
November 25, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Herbivorize Predators is a nonprofit researching genetic modification to transform carnivorous species into herbivores, aiming to reduce animal suffering.

Herbivorize Predators
www.herbivorizepredators.org

#Resource #WildAnimalSuffering #HerbivorizePredators
November 24, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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An insightful and angering video concerning the system of exploitation that immigrant workers face on U.S. farms:
youtu.be/zdWrHb8b-…

#WorkerExploitation #Agriculture #USAgriculture #ImmigrantRights #FarmWorkers #LaborJustice #FairLabor #HumanRights #LaborEquity
November 6, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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The Gottman Institute is a research-based resource offering relationship tools and therapy methods to improve communication and foster healthier partnerships.

www.youtube.com/channel/U…

#Resource #Relationships #Marriage #Partnership
November 5, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Waitlist Zero is an advocacy group working to end the U.S. kidney shortage by promoting living donations and supporting legislation to compensate donors, offering life-saving solutions and policy reforms.

waitlistzero.org

#Resource #KidneyDonation #OrganDonation
November 5, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Innovate Animal Ag is a think tank advancing technologies like in-ovo sexing to enhance productivity and animal welfare in agriculture through research, consulting, grants, and policy advocacy.

www.animalinnovation.org

#Resource #AnimalWelfare #AnimalAgriculture
November 5, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Terra.do is building the world’s largest platform for climate action. Their mission? Get 100 million people to work directly on climate in this decade.

terra.do

Also check out: workonclimate.org

#Resource #ClimateChange #ClimateAction #WorkOnClimate
November 5, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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The Climate Impact Map provides a highly localized picture of future climate impacts across the US and the globe. Explore how climate change will affect you and your community.

impactlab.org/map

#Resource #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateResiliency #ClimateImpacts
November 5, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Cooklang is a simple, human-readable text format for writing recipes that can be understood by both cooks and computers.

cooklang.org

Also check out its Obsidian plugin: github.com/cooklang/…

#Resource #Cooking #Recipes #LocalFirst #PlainText
October 28, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Gamestorming is a method and mindset that uses structured play and game-based techniques to help teams spark creativity, drive innovation, solve problems, and collaborate more effectively at work.

gamestorming.com

#Resource #Play #Facilitation #Ideation #Collaboration
October 27, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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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."
February 6, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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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.
January 21, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Hanzi Freinacht on society's capacity to manage complexity through the fostering of collective intelligence:

#Complexity #SocietalProgress #SystemsChange #SocialChange #CollectiveIntelligence
January 21, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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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.
January 20, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Jenny Blake on overcoming career stagnation by clarifying your "North Star" / essential intent.

#Career #CareerDevelopment #CareerPivot #Stagnation
January 20, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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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.
January 19, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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This moment is a gift. That's why it's called the present.

#Mindfulness #Gratitude #Presence
January 19, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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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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December 18, 2024 at 4:57 PM
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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.
December 8, 2024 at 4:57 PM
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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?
November 24, 2024 at 10:23 AM
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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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November 5, 2024 at 1:43 PM
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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.
November 4, 2024 at 4:57 PM
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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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November 4, 2024 at 4:51 PM