October 7, 2019

Good morning BOSLadies,

Where will you be this Tuesday at 6:30pm? At Available Light for our October Book Club meeting of course! See you on the sixth floor of 31 State Street in Boston. Reminder to please BYO wine, beer, White Claw, etc. and that if you didn’t get to read the book, it’s totally fine! We want to see you regardless of whether or not you like books or have time to read. Can’t wait

To tide you over until tomorrow night’s gathering, here are our weekly three:

Something about discomfort and anxiety: The need for change has been percolating within me for some time now but even still, making changes has been uncomfortable. I understand that the discomfort of change is preferable to the discomfort of staying where you don’t belong but I still have been seeking a lot of encouragement and reassurance. Some of that has come in the form of Brendan Leonard’s The Benefits of Discomfort.   

Something commissioned for London Design Festival and British Land: Please Be Seated by Paul Cocksedge.

Something from Safeena Husain at TED2019 about educating girls: In three years, her organization brought back 92% of out-of-school girls in India back to school. This isn’t a “wouldn’t it be great if we could…” talk – it’s a “here are the specific steps that we took to achieve our goal” talk. Here is part of why she has dedicated her life to this work: