Field Notes from the Floor
Dan KershawI write about the realities of nonprofit leadership, AI adoption, and the mission-driven work of turning empty housing into furnished homes.
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Did This Need to Exist?
I nearly did not write this
Sam Illingworth’s new book handed me the question that stops most writing before it starts, and then I had to decide whether this piece survived it.
The question is four words.
Did this need to exist?
Sam t...
We Swung for the Fences. We Shipped a Bunt.
Most AI pilots in our sector die as a line item in a deck.
Ours shipped, after a year that looked nothing like what I pictured when we started.
Field Notes from the Floor is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support...
You Already Have Permission. You Always Did.
In 1989, the federal government cut funding for newcomers. Sister Anne Schenck was running a refugee centre in Scarborough at the time. She walked into an apartment and found a mother with four children under five, sitting around a twelve-i...
A Classroom Is Not Your Office
Sam published the fifth session of the Slow AI Curriculum this morning. If you want the careful walk-through of Mei et al.’s study, the methodology, the cognitive offloading argument, the transcript, read his piece first. It is the definiti...
The New Grads Are Not the Risk. They Never Were.
Not a Grand Slam. A Successful Experiment.
Eight weeks. 150 applications. Three hires. What worked, what did not, and what I would do again.
Most leaders I talk to say they cannot find AI-forward new grads. I just hired three of them....
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I lead Furniture Bank, a social enterprise ending furniture poverty in Canada. We furnish homes for thousands of families in crisis. Applying AI for Good to scale our impact & prove that a simple table can change a life.
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