Nailah | Remote work strategist
@remotework4humans.bsky.social
Public sector friendly remote work best practices that create the space for your best work.
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Some good context for why I say everything is not urgent.
When I was in EIS, I had a friend and trained ER doc say “I’ve seen people die. This is not an emergency” re: people overworking themselves on important but not life/death public health tasks.
Reduce urgency. Work like a human.
When I was in EIS, I had a friend and trained ER doc say “I’ve seen people die. This is not an emergency” re: people overworking themselves on important but not life/death public health tasks.
Reduce urgency. Work like a human.
ICU tonight we've done compressions, placed an arterial line, placed a central line, did an emergency needle thoracostomy, placed a pigtail catheter, and used methylene blue as a last ditch pressor. More ICU action tonight than I've had in the last 6 months, and the night is only halfway done 🫠
December 12, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Some good context for why I say everything is not urgent.
When I was in EIS, I had a friend and trained ER doc say “I’ve seen people die. This is not an emergency” re: people overworking themselves on important but not life/death public health tasks.
Reduce urgency. Work like a human.
When I was in EIS, I had a friend and trained ER doc say “I’ve seen people die. This is not an emergency” re: people overworking themselves on important but not life/death public health tasks.
Reduce urgency. Work like a human.
A snoot for you to boop this Friday
December 12, 2025 at 3:13 PM
A snoot for you to boop this Friday
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When this "AI" bubble pops, the men pretending they weren't pushing the hype, like "critics" whose position is "AGI is real but LLMs aren't the way," who were in eugenicist and "AI existential risk"🙄 circles, will get specials discussing what they saw coming, when its the women who told you so.
December 10, 2025 at 8:52 PM
When this "AI" bubble pops, the men pretending they weren't pushing the hype, like "critics" whose position is "AGI is real but LLMs aren't the way," who were in eugenicist and "AI existential risk"🙄 circles, will get specials discussing what they saw coming, when its the women who told you so.
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What's ominous is all of the trusted women of color who know a lot about AI are saying that a crash is on the way and the white guys are pretending they are taking it to the moon. This means that a crash is definitely on its way.
December 11, 2025 at 1:32 PM
What's ominous is all of the trusted women of color who know a lot about AI are saying that a crash is on the way and the white guys are pretending they are taking it to the moon. This means that a crash is definitely on its way.
I don’t use ChatGPT. This slop is directly from my brain 🙂↕️
December 10, 2025 at 5:23 PM
I don’t use ChatGPT. This slop is directly from my brain 🙂↕️
Today, I got to work in a way that made me feel human.
Working from home, weaving pockets of work between family time and chores. Not worrying about if my Teams icon was green. Bliss.
Unfortunately this was only possible due to working on my day off
Working from home, weaving pockets of work between family time and chores. Not worrying about if my Teams icon was green. Bliss.
Unfortunately this was only possible due to working on my day off
December 9, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Today, I got to work in a way that made me feel human.
Working from home, weaving pockets of work between family time and chores. Not worrying about if my Teams icon was green. Bliss.
Unfortunately this was only possible due to working on my day off
Working from home, weaving pockets of work between family time and chores. Not worrying about if my Teams icon was green. Bliss.
Unfortunately this was only possible due to working on my day off
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I've known a lot of people who work in very real, life threatening, acute crises. I've occasionally tagged along on MUCH less severe deployments. I've always been struck by how important active disengagement is. Time off is sacrosanct. It is mission critical to prevent burnout & operational failure
December 7, 2025 at 3:28 PM
I've known a lot of people who work in very real, life threatening, acute crises. I've occasionally tagged along on MUCH less severe deployments. I've always been struck by how important active disengagement is. Time off is sacrosanct. It is mission critical to prevent burnout & operational failure
Timeline cleanse
Slime mold, Arcyria stipata. This specimen is about 3” across. At Yellowknife, NWT, Canada.
December 5, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Timeline cleanse
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If you're an expert in your field but still occasionally feel a tinge of imposter syndrome, just have a look at some of the current ACIP lineup.
December 4, 2025 at 6:57 PM
If you're an expert in your field but still occasionally feel a tinge of imposter syndrome, just have a look at some of the current ACIP lineup.
My old employer 🥹
December 5, 2025 at 7:00 PM
My old employer 🥹
Organ perfusion is a helluva drug
Devastated to find out that a lot of my issues resolve when I actually drink enough water to be hydrated 😮💨
December 2, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Organ perfusion is a helluva drug
Devastated to find out that a lot of my issues resolve when I actually drink enough water to be hydrated 😮💨
December 2, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Devastated to find out that a lot of my issues resolve when I actually drink enough water to be hydrated 😮💨
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Promoting psychological safety in the workplace is essential to employee wellbeing and retention, especially during times of crisis—when, ironically, psychological safety is likeliest to dwindle, according to a study co-authored by Harvard Chan School’s Michaela Kerrissey. @harvardhpm.bsky.social
Psychological safety at work is essential--especially amid crisis | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Promoting psychological safety in the workplace is essential to employee wellbeing and retention, especially during times of crisis--when, ironically, psychological safety is likeliest to dwindle, according to a study co-authored by Harvard Chan School'...
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December 2, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Promoting psychological safety in the workplace is essential to employee wellbeing and retention, especially during times of crisis—when, ironically, psychological safety is likeliest to dwindle, according to a study co-authored by Harvard Chan School’s Michaela Kerrissey. @harvardhpm.bsky.social
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NASHVILLE Senator Charlane Oliver: “With 6 days until election day… An onslaught of right-wing attack ads by dark money groups shows cracks in the Tennessee Republican supermajority stronghold. Even Trump is panicking. I’m giddy about it TBH.” open.substack.com/pub/charlane...
November 26, 2025 at 8:02 PM
NASHVILLE Senator Charlane Oliver: “With 6 days until election day… An onslaught of right-wing attack ads by dark money groups shows cracks in the Tennessee Republican supermajority stronghold. Even Trump is panicking. I’m giddy about it TBH.” open.substack.com/pub/charlane...
Was asked by a supervisor to reflect on the past fiscal year
November 25, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Was asked by a supervisor to reflect on the past fiscal year
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November 25, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Excerpt from the blog:
November 24, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Excerpt from the blog:
This past week at work I had a couple of different people ask me about what they believed to be technical problems with Teams.
...they were actually dealing with human…
http://remoteworkforhumans.com/2025/11/24/is-it-a-tech-issue-or-a-human-issue/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
...they were actually dealing with human…
http://remoteworkforhumans.com/2025/11/24/is-it-a-tech-issue-or-a-human-issue/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
November 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM
This past week at work I had a couple of different people ask me about what they believed to be technical problems with Teams.
...they were actually dealing with human…
http://remoteworkforhumans.com/2025/11/24/is-it-a-tech-issue-or-a-human-issue/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
...they were actually dealing with human…
http://remoteworkforhumans.com/2025/11/24/is-it-a-tech-issue-or-a-human-issue/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
Getting back to why I actually started this page with a new blog post coming tomorrow morning. It only took me 8 or so weeks to get out of my doomscrolling haze 🫠
November 24, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Getting back to why I actually started this page with a new blog post coming tomorrow morning. It only took me 8 or so weeks to get out of my doomscrolling haze 🫠
One Health ☺️
November 23, 2025 at 2:33 AM
One Health ☺️
You are absolutely correct. Like, as a current fed now reading up on actual marketing vs. the science comms I’ve always relied on. Yes!
One thing this admin is really good at is a LOT of repetition of a few ideas (bonus points if using language they have heard their base use). Marketing 101.
One thing this admin is really good at is a LOT of repetition of a few ideas (bonus points if using language they have heard their base use). Marketing 101.
Here's the newsletter post I wrote today about the CDC vax page and MAHA as marketing buttondown.com/abbycartus/a...
The affiliate marketing HHS
I’m bumping what I had planned to work on today, a bit of critical reflection on AI, in order to write this up instead while everyone is reacting to the...
buttondown.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:51 PM
You are absolutely correct. Like, as a current fed now reading up on actual marketing vs. the science comms I’ve always relied on. Yes!
One thing this admin is really good at is a LOT of repetition of a few ideas (bonus points if using language they have heard their base use). Marketing 101.
One thing this admin is really good at is a LOT of repetition of a few ideas (bonus points if using language they have heard their base use). Marketing 101.
November 21, 2025 at 8:11 PM
This as a really clear example of the kind of top-down, suffocating, micromanaging that agencies and frontline staff are dealing with from their departments.
Insult to moral injury.
Also, as a former CDC-er, the bullet about HHS studies was a dead giveaway that frontline staff weren’t involved 🥲
Insult to moral injury.
Also, as a former CDC-er, the bullet about HHS studies was a dead giveaway that frontline staff weren’t involved 🥲
The frontline CDC staff first asked to change the vaccines-autism website to promote a false link between the two wouldn't do so, @lenasun.bsky.social discovered wapo.st/3X9Mr43
CDC in turmoil after agency backpedals on rejecting vaccines-autism link
Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-Louisiana), who voted to confirm Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. after he pledged not to remove language stating vaccines do not cause autism from the CDC website, condemne...
wapo.st
November 21, 2025 at 3:51 PM
This as a really clear example of the kind of top-down, suffocating, micromanaging that agencies and frontline staff are dealing with from their departments.
Insult to moral injury.
Also, as a former CDC-er, the bullet about HHS studies was a dead giveaway that frontline staff weren’t involved 🥲
Insult to moral injury.
Also, as a former CDC-er, the bullet about HHS studies was a dead giveaway that frontline staff weren’t involved 🥲
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Oh, so now it’s a crime to bring your whole self to work
So apparently my company can't remove the guy cooking his beets and tuna in the air fryer. People have picked up and moved their desks because of it. One guy said he was at his desk seasoning chicken breasts.
People are livid.
People are livid.
November 20, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Oh, so now it’s a crime to bring your whole self to work