Sabrina Hersi Issa
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Mar
28

Revolutions are built on trust.

People seek safety in small numbers.  I have a friend whose job is to match study abroad students with host
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Mar
21

Trust is consistency built over time.

Trust is consistency built over time.  Back in 2016-ish, I was on a team of analysts evaluating and assessing a
2 min read
Mar
07

Making meaning

In January 2017, I flew to Chicago for the Obama farewell speech. I am someone who deeply dislikes crowds and
4 min read
Feb
28

Grief and fearlessness

“Hope is a woman who has lost her fear…” the Alice Walker poem goes.  Hope rises,  She always does,  did
4 min read
Feb
21

Stolen scaffolding

An old mentor of mine is one of the world’s leading experts on analyzing extremist and insurgency movements. She
3 min read
Feb
14

Love is a verb.

They say love is a verb for a reason.  Last January, I was back in Washington, DC and on my
3 min read
Feb
07

The War on Work

Shame is a powerful weapon of control.  Crooked, lying, fake. These are the slurs mainstreamed by Donald Trump to describe
6 min read
Jan
31

How to Reset

Loss does not depress me. It focuses me.  Hello, Sabrina here. I last wrote to this list in January 2022.
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Jan
07

What comes in the silence.

(TW/CW: This email newsletter describes a car accident and bystander failures) About two months ago, while I was in
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Jul
03

Stupid rules.

Recall [https://sabrina.ghost.io/no-more-next-times/]: Last week we learned how to hack sunk cost and that I am a
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