The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure by Greg Lukianoff My rating: 5 of 5 stars Excellent. Required reading. Full stop. View all my reviews Share:Share Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Share on X (Opens...
Ten Arguments For Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier My rating: 2 of 5 stars I’ll disclaim this all with the fact that I agree with the thesis statement: I think “BUMMER” is (unknowingly?) building incentives for us to tear ourselves apart, both individually and collectively....
[Today is Mom’s birthday. She’s not hitting a ‘milestone’ age and, given my Father’s Day post last year, it would probably makes more sense to write this in May. But where’s the fun in that?] Against all odds, it appears that the workforce is getting younger and I’m staying the...
UPDATE: Oh snap – I totally missed these from earlier in the year when I presented at RecruitCon East: What Looks Like a Magnet May Not Be a Magnet Making Your Company into a Talent Magnet As best as I can tell, I set up a Google alert for “kurt...
Meerkat + Ubuntu + time^internet → Plex Spurred on by the universe giving me a big shove toward getting rid of my gaming laptop, I decided to take the plunge. So far, it’s been a relatively simple adjustment. Unfortunately, I didn’t foresee one thing: Sarah and Liam (and apparently a...
I feel like my Facebook feed over the past week captures the erratic feel floating about: Share:Share Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Share on X (Opens in new window) X Share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) LinkedIn Like this:Like Loading…
It turns out that, in addition to being a Possibilian and a Truthian, I’m a Transhumanist! I guess it’s not so much about ‘being against labels’ as it is about simply having my particular labels harder to find. Share:Share Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Share on X (Opens in...
221 credits and 14 semesters at 4 universitites across 15 years to get 1 B.S. Share:Share Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Share on X (Opens in new window) X Share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)...
Many many moons ago, Kyle asked me to make a few videos on Romania for one of his classes. I did and, for his ease of access, posted them to my YouTube account. There they have stayed. Funny thing about the internet… a few people have found their way to the...
So I teamed up with Sean this year to tackle National Novel Writing Month again. While Sean hit his 50k words (way to go, Sean!), I did not. I hit 30k, which is definitely better than I did in 2011, but it was still far short of the goal. For your entertainment,...
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