A few weeks ago, Adam Kotsko hypothesized a connection between privilege and austerity that relies on the grounding idea that a privilege is a possession rather than a feature - “something extra” that can be lost or taken away. By that...

I have always loved the word "spalling," ever since I first heard it in my youth. It's the word for the process by which a large chunk of stone, concrete, ice, or some other solid material breaks down, shedding smaller fragments along fault lines...

It's a well-established truth that the easiest way to get attention is to get in the way. Crashing the seamless background against which our lives play out will do it. If you're lucky, you get incorporated into the foreground for a little while....

That door was always different somehow. I think it started with the doorknob. Different lock than all the other doors on the house, different style of hardware. And they treated it differently, since it was the only one that would lock them out...

One time I was traveling for business, and I decided to list the separate data streams that the company that I currently work for could use for our operations and strategy. Final count was about fifteen, everything from what the servers show to...

Maybe you'll be surprised to hear it, but one can end up in the same position with both a poem and a career: simultaneously overwhelmed and unmoved. I've seen university students stymied by John Keats and Ode on a Grecian Urn. I've seen adult...

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If you have an audience--especially a client-audience or a customer-audience--you have to talk to them. Unless you’re in the business of taking advantage of your audience, you need to find a way to open lines of communication with them that allow...

(Being my second post in response to Jane Hart's 10 Tools Challenge 2013) For business, the Internet means that a potential customer could receive your message almost anywhere. But although it’s getting better at it, the Internet can’t tell you...

I’m going to make a suggestion, especially to anyone whose vocation, avocation, or general tendencies get them walking around out in public. If you have to assume something, assume this: It’s better to expect that everyone is everywhere, rather...