Tag Archives: The Harnisch Foundation
This Is Not Working
Day 46
The temptation to “work” today is stronger than at any time since the beginning of my sabbatical.
I resisted most compulsions to tweet and blog TED2010 . My output at TEDGlobal2009 was prodigious by comparison.
As expected, I connected with some of our grantees, but also as expected, that was a joyful reward, not workwork.
Today I am powerfully pulled toward [...]
You Never Step Into The Same Conference Twice
Day 37
If I hadn’t already signed up, I might have decided to skip the TED Conference.
This might shock those who know I love the annual gathering, that it is the one thing that is on my calendar in indelible ink, that I am paid up until 2017.
I’ve been attending in my role as president of [...]
Shut Up. No, Really, Shut Up.
Day 8
I used to take money to talk – on the radio, on television, on stage.
These days, I don’t talk much, and during my sabbatical, I’m talking even less. I am conscious of opportunities for silence, and I embrace them. I turn off the television, the speaker on the computer, and switch the phone to [...]
Making an “S” Out of Yourself
The Harnisch Foundation recently made news – that’s what happens when you give money to people in the news business.
Our gift to create the Center for Sustainable Journalism at Kennesaw State University under the direction of Leonard Witt has received no small amount of attention. Journalists being journalists, they smell more than a story here. They smell [...]
