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The joke in law school was: “The curse of Yale Law School is to try to die with your options open.” Which means – at some point, you have to pursue one option, which means foreclosing other options, and to try to avoid that is crazy. The Happiness Project: Paradoxes of Happinesss: the sadness of …
It isn’t an inquisition; it’s an exploration, usually an exploration into the past,” he once said, explaining his approach. “So I think the gentlest question is the best one, and the gentlest is, ‘And what happened then?’ Studs Terkel, Listener to Americans, Dies at 96 – Obituary (Obit) – NYTimes.com
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Economic downturn hitting public libraries. Also, library fines. Another popularly focused article on the digital dark age; it proposes using open-source rather than proprietary file formats. The best suit for your body type. Proto-scholar learns the hard way to ask the right people for process advice. No one would blame her for feeling angry and …
James Weldon Johnson, 1871-1938, Aaron Douglas, Illustrated by, and C. B. Falls (Charles Buckles), 1874-1960, Illustrated by. God’s Trombones. Seven Negro Sermons in Verse
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In the end I like structures that are human-shaped, not idea-shaped and humans are great heaps of inconsistency, ambiguity and complexity. The New Adventures of Mr Stephen Fry
I forebear telling him that the reason I do not find Mormonism especially ridiculous is because I find all pretend invisible friends, Special Books and their rules equally ridiculous. Mormon ideas about realms of crystal rebirthing and special underpants are no weirder than the enforcing of wigs and woollen tights on orthodox Jewish women or …
Late night thoughts on getting a Ph.D.
Anthonio. In sooth I know not why I am so sad, It wearies me: you say it wearies you; But how I caught it, found it, or came by it, What stuffe ’tis made of, whereof it is borne, I am to learne: and such a Want-wit sadnesse makes of me, That I have much …
No Heroic Efforts
I meant to add this time management rule to my previous Fall Review post. I can’t remember whether it originated with Mark Forster or David Allen, but it goes something like this: At all costs, avoid heroic efforts to get things done. Examples of an heroic effort would be pulling an all-nighter or shoving all …
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