Perfect Whole
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Essays
- “Popping the Hood”
- Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
- The End.
- “Following”
- A New Year Every Day
- We Don’t Need Books to Free. We Need Them to be Brilliant.
- An Angel Packs a Suitcase
- The Other Julie Goldberg
- Lobbing Nerf Rocks
- Improvised Emergency Oil Candles
- “The Circus of Dreams”
- Perfect Whole, Superstorm Sandy Edition
- “One Lovely Blog”
- Unfriended
- The Anti-Debate
- An Imperfect Conduit
- The Girl on the Garden State Parkway
- Against Positive Attitudes
- “Cromwell’s Long Game”
- Permission Slip
- Teach the Timeless
- Adventures in Bothmind
- Vocation, Virtue, and Jerry Sandusky
- What We Got for $140,000
- Common Ground in the Culture Wars
- Definitely Not the Opera
- A Year Has Passed
- Confession of Love
- Internettled? Work With It!
- This Essay is Not Living Up to Its Potential
- The Overthrow of the Queen
- Post-Apocalyptic Career Counseling, Part III
- Post-Apocalyptic Career Counseling, Part II
- Post-Apocalyptic Career Counseling, Part I
- Grand Unified Theory
- I Don’t Have Time to Believe in Writer’s Block
- Elegy for a Thousand Stolen Books
- God Bless You. Or Not.
- Questions About Digital Natives
- Funeral for a Digital Immigrant
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We Don’t Need Books to Free. We Need Them to be Brilliant.
When I’m meeting people for the first time, some of them want to confess: “Bless me, Librarian, for I have sinned. It has been four years since I last read a book.” People tell me this sheepishly (and quite unbidden. … Continue reading
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Tagged authors, books, consumerism, ebooks, entrepreneurship, free, internet, Kindle, publishing, readers, reading, technology, writers, writing
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An Angel Packs a Suitcase
Politicians and business leaders demand that schools prepare students for the future, but the future is notoriously difficult to predict. Which future shall we prepare them for? Star Trek or The Hunger Games? How can we responsibly prepare students for whatever the … Continue reading
Posted in Criticism, Education
Tagged digital natives, education, employment, entrepreneurship, NJECC, teaching, technology
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Post-Apocalyptic Career Counseling, Part III
III. Conclusion If not even an Ivy League education is a guarantee of success, then what is? Well, the employment rate among neurosurgeons remains encouragingly high, if you have the hands for that kind of work. The Bureau of Labor … Continue reading
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Tagged economy, education, employment, entrepreneurship, PACC, wisdom
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Post-Apocalyptic Career Counseling, Part II
II. Life Beyond the Success Algorithm “My whole life, I had been doing everything everybody told me. I went to the right school. I got really good grades. I got all the internships. Then, I couldn’t do anything.” –Rebecca Chapman, … Continue reading
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Tagged economy, education, employment, entrepreneurship, PACC, teaching
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