Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name, Unpacking My Library opens with an essay from Walter Benjamin. “… there are spirits, or at least little genii, which have seen to it that for a collector - and I mean a real collector, a collector as he ought to be - ownership is the most intimate relationship that one can have to objects. Not that they come alive in him; it is he who lives in them. So I have erected one of his dwellings, with books as the building stones, before you, and now he is going to disappear inside, as is only fitting.” The pages that follow present a series of bookshelf images along with commentary from each Architect. The jargon sometimes makes the text less accessible, but the images alone would have interesting enough for me.

Liswood writes about the challenges associated with diversity (specifically cognitive diversity) in enterprise. Citing examples from her decades at Goldman, she tells a story of dominant and non dominant groups, unwritten rules, and unconscious perceptions. I gained an appreciation for the influence of culturally-specific lessons from ‘Grandma’ on participation in the workplace. (ex: [US] The squeaky wheel gets the grease vs [China] The loudest duck gets shot).