Charleston, Dylann Roof and the racism of millennials
Karen Attiah, writing for The Washington Post: The danger in invoking the myth of the presupposed racial tolerance of millennials (and subsequent generations) is that it works to absolve today’s...
View ArticleTaylor Swift Criticism Spurs Apple to Change Royalties Policy
Ben Sisario, writing for The New York Times: Less than 24 hours after Ms. Swift complained publicly that Apple was not planning to pay royalties during a three-month trial period of its new streaming...
View Article5 Mistakes
Lucy Leske, writing for Inside Higher Ed: In more than 20 years of executive search in higher education and nonprofits, I have spent countless days, evenings, even weekends sequestered with search...
View Article★ My Apologies to Sarah Wallace (and My Ten Year-old Self)
I was easily the least cool kid in elementary school. Truth be told, I was probably the least cool kid in middle school as well. Though, I was never deterred in my efforts to rectify my poor social...
View ArticleStop Worrying About How Much You Matter
Peter Bregman, writing for Harvard Business Review Many of us are unhealthily—and ultimately unhappily—tied to mattering. It’s leaving us overwhelmed and over-busy, responding to every request, ring...
View ArticleWhy I’m Setting Myself Back In My Career In Favor Of A Happier Life
Original article by Evans Prater via Elite Daily. “Imagine a world of people sitting outside in the sunshine, enjoying some coffee, while answering their morning e-mails. They would be measuring work...
View Article★ Reach for the tag: bouncy toys, multi-tasking, and distraction
My 9 month old daughter has this bouncer/toy/spaceship looking thing. Children’s toys are unnecessarily complicated. It has more buttons, lights, sound, bells and whistles than the cockpit of a small...
View ArticleObama’s Overtime Proposal Could Be Costly for Colleges
Paul Basken, writing for The Chronicle of Higher Education: American institutions of higher education employ more than 3.8 million people, according to government data cited by the College and...
View ArticleIf you want happy workers, stop treating them like children
Aimee Groth, writing for Quartz: As we’ve moved away from a post-industrial society into an information age, knowledge and customer-service work make up a greater portion of all labor. This kind of...
View Article★ When You Give It a Shot
I’m the person in our office who fields the phone calls after roommate assignments are sent out. I’m the person who talks to students and parents who have quickly browed the social media presence of...
View ArticleDefine Yourself by Your Work? How (and Why) You Should Stop Now
If your job was eliminated today, how would you describe your life tomorrow? “But when I think about my identity, how I mark my place in the world, I think of my profession first. I bet you do, too....
View ArticleGuess Who Doesn’t Fit In at Work
Lauren Rivera, writing for The New York Times: But cultural fit has morphed into a far more nebulous and potentially dangerous concept. It has shifted from systematic analysis of who will thrive in a...
View Article★ The Weight That You Carry
My partner and I piled lake rocks to make a fire ring as our golden retriever fetched sticks from the water. I popped the cork of a riesling we bought on our last Finger Lakes wine tour and poured it...
View ArticleSelf-proclaimed ‘experts’ more likely to fall for made-up facts, study finds
Rachel Feltman, writing for The Washington Post: According to the researchers, the big takeaway from the study should be that many of us may actually stop learning about a subject when we start to...
View ArticleWhat Privilege Really Means (And Doesn’t Mean)
Maisha Z. Johnson, writing for Everyday Feminism. Say you’re a man who’s been successful in a competitive STEM field. You’re happy with the money and recognition you’ve earned, feeling proud of your...
View Article★ Being Right Is Not Enough
I wasn’t sure if I was going to say anything. Looking around the room, I could see some of my colleagues asking themselves the same question. Some were uncertain, some weren’t paying attention, some...
View ArticleYour job will never love you: Stress and anxiety in our frightening new job...
Allison J. Pugh in Salon: One might think that the pervasive sense of increasing job insecurity— and its resigned acceptance by precarious workers—would give rise to increased detachment from work, as...
View ArticleIf you want happy workers, stop treating them like children
Aimee Groth, writing for Quartz: As we’ve moved away from a post-industrial society into an information age, knowledge and customer-service work make up a greater portion of all labor. This kind of...
View Article★ When You Give It a Shot
I’m the person in our office who fields the phone calls after roommate assignments are sent out. I’m the person who talks to students and parents who have quickly browed the social media presence of...
View ArticleDefine Yourself by Your Work? How (and Why) You Should Stop Now
If your job was eliminated today, how would you describe your life tomorrow? “But when I think about my identity, how I mark my place in the world, I think of my profession first. I bet you do, too....
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