Another death. Another killing. Another explosion. Another shooting. Another outrage perpetrated by those in power on those with none. Another set of babble and bile from the privileged talking heads. Another day of confused thoughts and feelings no one knows what to do with. I dread hearing the word “another.”
Category Archives: Ideas
Robertson Davies on Useful Knowledge
In one of his early novels, a Robertson Davies character delivers a little speech that impressed me so much at the time that I’ve delightedly trotted it out whenever the subject of information management rears its tedious head.
An improv principle and event planning
In the winter of aught-six, I took a beginning improv class at DSI Comedy Theatre and learned a lesson that I pass along almost as holy writ to others.
A student or a scholar
One of the things I discovered about myself during the past year is that I’m a student, not a scholar. I’ve always thought of myself as a “lifelong student,” but I’m not sure I really understood what that meant till recently. In my view, a master’s candidate is a student, a PhD candidate is a …
Research Journal for my 780 class
Cover of 7 Up Since our 780 Research Methods class doesn’t have a Blackboard site for the class, I’ll post my various links and thoughts to the blog, tagged with “780.” I wonder if Michael Apted’s wonderful Up series of documentary interviews would be an example of a kinda sorta longitudinal study or panel study? …
On specifying your terms
One of the books I read over the Christmas vacation was Writing the Mind Alive, which one Amazon reviewer tags as the book to go to after freewriting has taken you as far it can. I used to write morning pages and still enjoy journaling, but I’m always open to new approaches and methods (the …
Overreactions and decisions
The SILS MSIS curriculum requires a master’s paper or project and the professors of even the core required classes encourage the students to begin thinking early about likely topics. Fortunately, it’s possible to review a database of previous master’s papers from SILS graduates so you can gauge the scope and treatment of the topic areas. …
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