Inspiration… The Apple of Your Eye 2 Nov 201131 Oct 2011 Novelist and English professor Mona Simpson delivered this eulogy for her brother, Steve Jobs. Not everyone will be remembered by millions, but anyone can aspire to succeed in both career…
Entrepreneur… Do You Look like a Writer? 25 Oct 201125 Oct 2011 Naturally, I teach my students to write, but what gets more attention is inspiring them to look employable. Before job fairs and interviews, I've taught men to choose, tie, and…
Business… Summer Survival 11 Jun 20119 Jun 2011 Is summer over yet? Oh, yeah, I don't have a break. And my children do! So here's what I want--or rather don't want--for me (and everyone around me) to be…
Change the World… Friday Flick: Virtual Choir 3 Jun 2011 We're so glad Eric Whitacre did not make it as a pop star. Here's a TED talk on his composing and creating influences: Mozart and a fan on YouTube. It's…
Art Books… Books: Too Good to Die 14 Apr 201117 Apr 2011 True--you're reading this online and you probably read eBooks of some sort. But technology also expands the options for traditional books as well. Back in 2005, Valerie Kirschenbaum published Goodbye Gutenberg:…
Business… HBR on Hiring Humanities Majors 6 Apr 20116 Apr 2011 Second Road's Tony Golsby-Smith writes for a Harvard Business Review guest blog, "People trained in the humanities who study Shakespeare's poetry, or Cezanne's paintings, say, have learned to play with…
Blogging… A Word about Copyright 2 Apr 201122 Apr 2011 My composer son believes in copyright karma. In high school, while pirated music surrounded him, he could have played his iTunes around the clock for two weeks straight without duplicating a track,…
Blogging… Warning to Fellow Bloggers 31 Mar 201131 Mar 2011 A word to the wise: whatever you blog about, never stray into that dangerous topic territory known as Ice Cream. If you blog about Ice Cream, the purveyors of Ice…
Academic Writing… Why Do I Have to Take this Class Anyway? 10 Feb 201112 Feb 2011 I haven't studied math since high school. I excelled in it. I took all four years of accelerated classes, keeping college majoring options open. Then I tested out of college…
Blogging… Information Radiation 19 Jan 201120 Jan 2011 My young scientist borrowed this laptop for school research. He’s preparing to impersonate Wilhelm Röentgen, the man who discovered and named x-rays (and had their units of measurement named for…
Business… What Makes Me Smile 4 Jan 20113 Jan 2011 This passage shared in one of my end-of-the-year posts a couple years ago still makes me smile: I always knew that one day I would take this road but Yesterday…
Business Communications… Friday Flick: Validation 17 Dec 201027 Jan 2011 Click on the image to access the 17-minute film, "Validation," a fable about more than the magic of free parking.
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