Friday, December 20, 2024
It seems to be an Alan Jacobs day! His post called “The Work Itself,” about the difference between being an influencer and doing a job, is excellent. For me, it is coinciding with my current reading of Matthew B Crawford’s Shop Class as Soulcraft and The World Beyond Your Head, _as …Wednesday, December 18, 2024 →
I hate the post-Fed-announcement hysteria that hits the stock market every time the Fed cuts interest rates.
Tuesday, November 26, 2024
Ian Leslie, on his Substack site The Ruffian, wrote an interesting article entitled “Are You Charismatic or Charming?". It made me start considering my teaching and writing style. Leslie writes: In a new book, Charm: How Magnetic Personalities Shape Global Politics, the sociologist Julia …