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The Crushing Mental Load of Disability
https://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/2025/01/28/the-crushing-mental-load-of-disability-or-why-im-not-a-team-player-anymore/
Published: January 29, 2025 00:08
Photo credit: Statue Atlas by PeterKraayvanger on Pixabay This isn’t the essay I was planning to publish next. I’ve been working on an essay about the lack of solidarity around…
It’s not about information literacy: Why people’s risk calculus around COVID has changed
https://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/2024/12/03/its-not-about-information-literacy-why-peoples-risk-calculus-around-covid-has-changed/
Published: December 3, 2024 15:53
Image credit: Willet on the Beach by Korall inWikimedia Commons I’ve been doing so much thinking, reading, and writing on social media about COVID that I was honestly surprised to…
On 20 Years of Blogging at Information Wants to be Free
https://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/2024/11/16/on-20-years-of-blogging-at-information-wants-to-be-free/
Published: November 16, 2024 19:36
Today is the 20th anniversary of this blog. I put that on my calendar about 6 months ago when I realized how close to 20 years I was and then…
A review of Information Literacy and Social Media by SantamarÃa and Pfannenstiel
https://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/2024/09/24/a-review-of-information-literacy-and-social-media-by-santamaria-and-pfannenstiel/
Published: September 24, 2024 16:38
Santamaria, M., & Pfannenstiel, N. (2024). Information literacy and social media : empowered student engagement with the ACRL framework. Association of College and Research Libraries. When I started writing my book…
Community Time and Enoughness: The heart of slow librarianship
https://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/2024/09/11/community-time-and-enoughness-the-heart-of-slow-librarianship/
Published: September 11, 2024 15:58
Photo credit: Mushrooms surrounded by trees by Valentin S. This is the sixth and final essay in a series of essays I’ve written on time. You can view a list…
Queer Time, Crip Time, and Subverting Temporal Norms
https://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/2024/08/12/queer-time-crip-time-and-subverting-temporal-norms/
Published: August 12, 2024 18:27
Photo credit: The Harvesters by Pieter Bruegel the Elder This is the fifth in a series of essays I’ve written on time. You can view a list of all of…
Meredith’s Slow Productivity (not to be mistaken for Cal Newport’s Faux Slow Productivity)
https://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/2024/06/24/merediths-slow-productivity-not-to-be-mistaken-for-cal-newports-faux-slow-productivity/
Published: June 24, 2024 18:45
Image credit: Dolce Far Niente by John William Godward This is the fifth in a series of essays I’ve written on time. You can view a list of all of them on the first essay. Two weeks ago, I critiqued Cal Newport’s book Slow Productivity. In this post, I’m…
Slow productivity is a team sport: A critique of Cal Newport’s Slow Productivity
https://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/2024/06/12/slow-productivity-is-a-team-sport-a-critique-of-cal-newports-slow-productivity/
Published: June 12, 2024 15:41
Image credit: Dolce far Niente by John Singer Sargent This is the fourth in a series of essays I’ve written on time. You can view a list of all of them on the first essay. This was going to be a somewhat different essay before I read Cal Newport’s Slow…
The Productivity Trap
https://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/2024/05/16/the-productivity-trap/
Published: May 17, 2024 00:16
Photo source This is the third in a series of essays I’ve written on time. You can view a list of all of them on the first essay. In my last post, I wrote about the dominance of work temporality over every aspect of our lives and the push toward…
With Work Time at the Center
https://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/2024/03/27/with-work-time-at-the-center/
Published: March 27, 2024 17:31
This is the second in a series of essays I’ve written on time. You can view a list of all of them on the first essay. Once upon a time, people lived more by the natural rhythms of seasons, the movement of the sun, and their bodies. There weren’t clocks to…