Should be required reading for all. [As in ‘everyone’]. ===== WSJ 1/26/2019 by By Kate Bachelder Odell Americans may not agree on much, but here’s one point of consensus: Social media isn’t entirely wonderful. Facebook has its privacy scandals, and who would join Twitter for the camaraderie? This week an ugly online mob demonstrated the point by setting upon a... Read more
Archive for the ‘Personal Development’ Category
Not to Late to Quit Social Media – Cal Newport
January 27 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Personal Development, TechnologyHow to Make a Living
September 2 | Posted by mrossol | Economics, Education, Personal Development, Work worldOne of the best articles on the value of being able to write clearly and concisely that I have read in a long time. ======== WSJ 8/30/2018 As a 20-year-old graduate student in creative writing, I asked a professor how to submit work for publication. “If you’re already worried about publishing,” he said, “you’re not a serious writer.” I was serious—and desperate to learn... Read more
Digital sages | WORLD News Group
August 19 | Posted by mrossol | Personal Development, Western CivilizationInteresting article in World Magazine – which I do recommend. ========= Aug 18, 2018 The first time Youp Timmer heard Jordan Peterson speak in a YouTube video, he thought his voice sounded like Kermit the Frog’s. And like Kermit, this 56-year-old University of Toronto psychology professor was a skilled communicator, hands gesticulating and brows furrowing as he spoke about personal responsibility and bearing... Read more
Very, Very Rare Commodities
December 23 | Posted by mrossol | Health, Interesting, Personal DevelopmentHow about you? Got silence? ====== Silence, by Erling Kagge Reviewed by Sara Wheeler, WSJ 12/22/2017 Twenty-five years ago, the Norwegian adventurer Erling Kagge trekked solo across Antarctica without a radio (actually, the aviation company that flew him to the coast insisted that he take one, and he did—but he dumped the batteries in the plane’s trash bin). The experience of being alone for... Read more
How to Raise an American Adult – WSJ
May 10 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Personal, Personal Development====== WSJ May 5, 2017 We all know the noun adult. But I was perplexed last year to hear the new verb to adult. In social media, especially on Twitter and Instagram, it birthed a new hashtag: #adulting. As in: “Just paid this month’s bills on time #adulting,” or “Decided I couldn’t watch Netflix 8 hours straight and went to the grocery... Read more
Simon Sinek on Millennials in the Workplace – YouTube
January 1 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Personal, Personal Development, TechnologyThis guy has got the vast majority of it right. I know lots of companies where leaders need to take this message to heart. I mean really take it to heart and be adult enough to do something about it. ================
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