I’ve been writing this blog for ten years! Here is the ChewyChunks top ten list over the last decade.
The year in memes
Each year I do a year-end lookback at major events and in memes. I am on my 7th consecutive year: (2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012) See also my 2016 Gratitudes list.
Millions of lives saved by Good Government in Japan, following the 2011 tsunami.
For passion week (Easter) I wrote a 7-part series about rethinking aid and international development in the context of Jesus’s life and teachings.
Have you ever been in a meeting and someone said something preposterous, and you wanted to challenge this assumption? This is how I used Amazon Mechanical Turk in Real Time as Focus Groups
Innovation, data, and ideas
Five things every aid worker should understand about evolution — the future of evaluations and the solution to ending poverty is going to come from this.
In a related post, why The Future of Big Data is quasi-unstructured
In 2016 I created a phylogenetic tree of all types of aid and charitable work and a complete NGO ecosystem map — showing how all sorts of programs are related to each other in a needs hierarchy.
Why the poor don’t speak up
This post combines the ideas behind GlobalGiving’s partner rewards, Information is Power, and Feedback Labs in a single theory of change. See also “Features of Great Organizations” an analysis that shows how a community-led mindset is correlated with achieving one’s intended impact.
Marc’s dating dashboard
Simplicity Beyond Complexity – illustrates the one time in my career I was able to freely iterate on a design. I had a good boss who let me tinker with everything so long as I kept a few key performance targets and design goals in mind, and we re-examined our assumptions and goals every 6 months over 2.5 years.
More Storytelling Project Posts
https://chewychunks.wordpress.com/storytelling/
https://chewychunks.wordpress.com/2011/01/21/the-story-theme-game/
https://chewychunks.wordpress.com/2013/05/02/storytelling-magic/
https://chewychunks.wordpress.com/2012/07/23/scribe-feedback-storytelling/
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