2026-04-18.1_S Smith - organizing

“To start, there simply isn’t one way to be a good organizer. There are at least nine.

That’s because an organizer’s job is not to be good at everything; it is to find other people who, together, can be more than any one of us could hope to be alone.”

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“The organizer’s calling is not to do everything ourselves; it is to find everyone we need.”

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“These are particularly cruel and unsettling times. Every single one of us is going to feel overwhelmed at some point; like we just aren’t enough. When that happens, we can choose to embrace that fact.

Of course each of us is not enough.

That is why we organize.”

• Stephen Smith, There are Nine Kinds of Great Organizers. You Don’t Have to Be Them All, Convergence mag

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