I took a photo of the first class I spoke to here in Madison, so when I arrived in Bob Drechsel‘s intermediate reporting class this afternoon the students asked if I was going to take their picture. So as an illustration of, I dunno, the self-indulgence inherent in blogging (or at least my blogging), I’ve decided to take their picture …
10 career killers (or 9, or 26, whatever)
My colleague Julie Rawe forwarded me this piece of joy. It’s from someone named Merilee at Kern Communications, and promotes “world-class career coach John M. McKee, author of Career Wisdom among other business success titles.” McKee, she says, “details 10 key self-destructive workplace habits sure to endanger one’s longevity on the …
So many ways to suck at parenting
“Snack.”
That’s the word that woke L.A. Times columnist Rosa Brooks up in a cold sweat recently. She’d remembered that she’d promised to supply her child’s class with snacks the next morning, an ordeal she recounts in a column this week titled, “Modern ‘parenting’ insanity:
having kids today has turned into a full-time job and career …
It’s morning in Madison
And it’s really cold. At least it is if you’re riding a bike along Lake Mendota before 9 a.m. with no hat and no gloves.
Bloggers who love Ray Hudson move the media world closer to perfection
I’ve blogged before about the loopy brilliance of Ray Hudson’s soccer commentaries on GolTV, and linked to the Hudson Wikipedia entry in which some of his gems are collected.
But now I’ve learned (via DuNord, who says Grant Wahl told him about) that there’s now a whole friggin’ blog dedicated to “Hudsonia–the Wisdom of Ray Hudson.” Two …
Larry Lessig says corporations are like pet tigers (personally, I prefer guinea pigs)
From a Larry Lessig review of Robert Reich’s new book, Supercapitalism (via Ezra Klein):
[W]e need to understand the nature of the corporation — to make money — and come to love it, and yet, to keep it in its proper place, just as you can love a tiger, but know that it’s not the sort of thing that should play with your kid.
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I work, therefore I eat at home
“Me want food.” Anyone else watch 30 Rock? This is the thought bubble floating above my head at all times these days, so I thought it appropriate to blog consecutively about said subject matter.
My colleague Jeninne Lee-St. John pointed me to this article in Ad Age (did I mention I interned there? Worst internship of my life, except for …
What stands in the way of a nation of Macs?
The guy sitting at the table next to mine at the Fair Trade Coffee House here in Madison had a Dell laptop. He asked me for help. It was his son’s computer, he said, and he couldn’t figure out how to make the wifi work. I looked at the screen for a minute and finally said, “I dunno, I’m a Mac guy.”
“Me too,” he said. We both looked …
Greetings from Madison
I guess I should mention at some point that I’m writing this week from America’s most insanely livable city, Madison, Wisconsin. Above is the view from my table at the Fair Trade Coffee House on State Street, where I’m typing these very words. Here’s a view down State Street toward the Capitol:
I’m in Madison because I’m the …
Why I’ll never take another breakfast meeting
I don’t usually waste this space commenting on other workplace columnists’ work, but Lisa Belkin’s piece in this Sunday’s New York Times got under my skin. Not that I disagreed with it. Titled “Oh, Joy! Breakfast With the Boss,” she begins,
PLEASE do not invite me to breakfast.
It’s not that I don’t like breakfast. To the
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No, it’s not 1987. But neither is it 1998
Stock markets around the world are having another crummy day. It’s always worth reiterating that the plus or minus 2% daily drops we’ve been seeing are nothing compared with the more than 20% decline on Oct. 19, 1987.
But this decline is not the product of some weird hiccup in the workings of financial markets, as was the case in …
What regulators are good for: Cleaning up
Hedge fund manager and poker ace David Einhorn was the speaker at the 17th annual Graham & Dodd breakfast Friday morning. I arrived too late to get a seat, and left early because I was starving, but I did write down this quote:
Regulators are good at cleaning up fraud after the money is gone. Government doesn’t really know what to do
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