Nailah | Remote work strategist

MEMPHIS’ @repcohen.bsky.social on the shutdown…

When you control all the levers of power and can't get shit done, you don't get to blame anyone else.

Running this back since the gov actually shut down. 🥲

Five Self Care Activities for Feds as a Government Shutdown Looms (Free and 5 minutes or less) A quick resource for federal workers as a government shutdown looms.

Five Self Care Activities for Feds as a Government Shutdown Looms (Free and 5 minutes or less) remoteworkforhumans.com/2025/09/29/f...

My little porch garden goes a long way to help fill me up

This administration has stated they want us in trauma.

I’m petty enough to learn healthy coping mechanisms so they don’t get what they want 😉

For my fellow fed workers as a shutdown looms.

Please make a plan to pour into yourself no matter what happens.

MEMPHIS: “This is abuse of power — choose investment over militarization… safety without trust is no safety at all.”

FULL: www.localmemphis.com/article/news...

Mood:

There will always be more work to do.
You should give your efforts the breathing room and respect required to make them part of a life well lived, not an obstacle to it.

-Cal Newport,
Slow Productivity

This space has never been about being more productive.

It has always been about centering and honoring our humanity in the ways that we work.

John Oliver Offers Four Defiant Words of Advice to Disney Over the Kimmel Situation It works. Try it out, Bob Iger.

"history is also going to remember the cowards who definitely knew better but still let things happen—whether it was for money, convenience, or just comfort. Use ... the only phrase that can genuinely make a weak bully go away: F**k you. Make me.”" www.pajiba.com/news/john-ol...

I Got Rid of My To-Do List Let’s explore how remote work best practices can help us get radically intentional about how we work.

I Got Rid of My To-Do List

Let’s explore how remote work best practices can help us get radically intentional about how we work.

Have you noticed?
Reminders of abundance are everywhere. Remember to look.

just saw a tiktok from a disney adult reading from On Tyranny and asking their followers to cancel their d+ and disney trips omg

Cream text on milk chocolate brown background. Believe that your can get out of your inbox and create the space for the work that matters.

Stop grinding. Start creating.

Cream text on milk chocolate brown background. When you look back at your career and reflect on your contribution to your field, will Outlook come up?

Cream text on milk chocolate brown background. YOUR BEST WORK DOESN'T LIVE IN OUTLOOK @remoteworkforhumans

Gentle reminder.

This is Not Normal With remote work, how we work is just as important as where we are working. Rather than replicating the office at home, let's redefine what remote work could be. Let's seek to leverage the unique properties of remote work to honor a more humane approach to work.

The way we've been conditioned to think about remote work is not normal. Let's change that.

Confirming this for NIH. It is very, very bad inside the agency— and all of US medical research and universities are at risk.

Thread of some USAID projects (still) cancelled that were providing lifesaving support, from the Project Resource Optimization list. They could still be restarted, they could still save lives...

Gutted: How Deeply Trump Has Cut Federal Health Agencies More than 20,500 workers have left or been pushed out of federal health agencies, a ProPublica analysis found. Staffers say the cuts will leave their agencies less equipped to conduct studies, perform...

While Kennedy once claimed that he was increasing the number of scientists and front-line workers, ProPublica found that more than 1,050 scientists, physicians and public health specialists left or were pushed out of the CDC from January to mid-August.

Why do we need to clear out that space?

From Slow Productivity by Cal Newport.

This is why I love creating systems and thinking through how to make those “little tasks” go away entirely. It really does clear the way for more imagination and creativity.

The 16th Ebola Virus Disease Outbreak in Bulape Health Zone, Kasai, Democratic Republic of the Congo: A new spillover event from an unknown reservoir host Background The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is currently facing concurrent outbreaks including mpox, cholera and malaria (1-4). The Ministry of Public Health, DRC has declared the 16th Ebola...

Sequence data from the new Ebola outbreak in DRC suggests it is indeed a new spillover.

And just incredible to see the virus sequenced and the data publicly shared less than 24 hours after confirmation of the outbreak.
#IDsky 🧪

virological.org/t/the-16th-e...

Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health

An extraordinary joint op-ed and plea by NINE former directors or acting directors of the CDC under both Democratic and Republican administrations, succinctly describing undermining of public health, and what’s needed now.
(gift link)

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

Today we celebrate the strength and resilience of working people everywhere. Nearly 300,000 federal employees have lost their jobs this year not because of necessity, but because of a political agenda. And while people’s lives were destroyed in the name of “saving money,”

Some excerpts from this week’s blog

What Learning Tatreez Taught Me About Purpose I write in this space about public sector friendly remote work best practices that create the space people need to do their best work. What I haven't really written about is why I feel compelled to do this work and how it connects to my purpose. Going to my friend's business launch for her own purpose fueled business and learning tatreez from her re-affirmed my purpose and I'd like to share that experience with you.

What Learning Tatreez Taught Me About Purpose

AP footage of Demetre Daskalakis’ speech at the CDC rally held in Atlanta. He is holding a microphone and saying: The watch is yours AND you must take care of yourselves

AP footage of Deb Houry interview at the CDC rally held in Atlanta. She explains that they literally got on a teams chat to coordinate their resognation

A couple of gems from the CDC rally. Dr. Demetre’s reminder is much needed ❤️‍🩹