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The Middle of the Spectrum, Between Nonprofit Burnout and Value
This dispatch holds space for the in-between: where personal leadership meets structural underinvestment. You’re not a fraud. You’re doing high-level strategy in a field that doesn’t pay for strategy. You're not underperforming. You're building infrastructure in scarcity logic.

Lauren Watson
Sep 262 min read


They Said Calculators Were Cheating Too: A Love Letter to the Tools That Change Us
They said calculators were cheating too. Like AI today, every transformative tool sparks fear before it reshapes us. This article explores how new technology often threatens entrenched power, and why access to tools has always meant access to freedom; especially for marginalized communities.

Lauren Watson
Sep 113 min read


Dear Nonprofits: You Deserve Real Development, Not Free LaborÂ
Dear nonprofits,
Let me say this plainly: You deserve real development. Not free labor. Not exposure-based favors. Not speculative writing in hopes of magic money.

Lauren Watson
Aug 202 min read
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