Agency, Ethics, and Becoming

Organizations are often described as structures: charts, departments, roles, systems, workflows, policies, and reporting relationships. This language is useful, but incomplete. An organization is not merely a structure. It is a living field of human becoming.   Every workplace is made of people having experiences, interpreting those experiences, and responding from within those interpretations. Meetings, […]

Interpretive FrameThis essay examines the cultural ideal of the autonomous self—the belief that individuals are, or should be, fully self-directing and self-sufficient agents. Focusing on economic life and educational merit in the United States, it reveals how this ideal is learned through stories and expectations, how it legitimizes inequality while appearing fair, and how it

Interpretive FrameThis essay explores disruption not as a personal anomaly or moral failure, but as a patterned condition of human life shaped by history, culture, and systems. By examining how agency and ethics are reconfigured through disruption, it reframes becoming as an ongoing practice rather than a stable possession. Disruption is often experienced as rupture: