Tag Archives: New York Times
Letter Rip
Day 174 While reading a book on creating intrinsic motivation, <note: link to the book was added because of requests.> I came upon an exercise I thought would be useful. Nobody gets a name tag. You have to introduce yourself with an adjective that begins with the same letter as your first name, like “Musical Michelle”. I [...]
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Day 140 Although I ought to be accustomed to it after almost two decades of occasional experience, every time the big machine suddenly lowers into view from a very high floor I’m startled. Seriously, you would be too. These are what the real estate agents call “helicopter views” and it is not usual for the broad [...]
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Day 119 This week I read about the scary notion that a cyberattack on the United States could shut down the country in 15 minutes. I confess that my world would shut down without the internet. So many of my relationships are maintained online, via email, instant message, texts, internet phones, Skype, Ning, social networking. [...]
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Day 109 I’m a sucker for “The Little Engine That Could ” stories, where a dedicated striver keeps saying “I think I can, I think I can, I think I can” and eventually does. When somebody beats the odds, comes from nowhere to great success, we grasp that story like a talisman. If it could happen [...]
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Day 74 Yesterday’s New York Times had an article about trade school ripoffs that should be required reading for anyone considering enrollment in a for-profit school. I’ve known about this scheme to rake in government money for almost 40 years. Barely out of our teens, my roommate and I were working at entry-level jobs. She was [...]
Full StoryOn the Ball, On My Feet
Day 59 Three of us meet often in the little office where one of us works. He sits behind his desk. The other person sits in the one visitor’s chair. They always offer to bring in a chair for me, but most of the time I prefer to stand. I work better on my feet. I have [...]
Full StoryScared Shiftless
Even though I haven’t earned a journalism paycheck in over a decade, I woke up several times last night because of terrifying “What Happened To My Job?” dreams. The seeds of these nightmares were probably planted when longtime Nashville television news anchor Dan Miller died last week. It’s almost as if the work I used [...]
Full StoryBill and TED’s Excellent Adventure
Did you seethe New York Times Magazine this weekend where Virginia Heffernan owned up to being a junkie? As friends of Bill W. say, “Hi, Virginia.” I, too, am a TED addict. I’m going for my big fix next week. The rush is indescribable. You can get a contact high at www.ted.com. Like the usual [...]
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