We went out of town last weekend, so I didn’t do the customary wrap-up post, which means you get a whole lot of stuff this weekend.
Me on Substack:
— What’s Most Useful from College?: A look at how I’d rank the different things I did as a college student (categories of courses, extra-curricular activities, etc.) in terms of their importance to my future career.
— Bad Advice Isn’t Evil: A plea for recognizing that just because some well-intentioned advice doesn’t work for you doesn’t mean it’s actively harmful to everyone else.
— Letting the Perfect Be the Enemy of the Better-Than-Expected: Despite a lot of hand-wringing about the current state of the pandemic, we are in a vastly better position right now than we had any reason to expect in the spring of 2020.
— Half a Chair: A look at the first three episodes of Netflix’s show about academia.
—Pictures of The City: Some explanation of our out-of-town trip.
— The New School Year Arrives: Some thoughts as SteelyKid starts eighth grade and The Pip fifth.
—It’s All Kabuki: So much of what goes on with political media is just ritualistic theater.
Links Dump: I opened a bunch of stuff in tabs, but I’ve had less time than usual to read any of it…
— Academia: Policies and Procedures: Timothy Burke on the way rules accrete in academia, and the cost of dealing with them all.
— America’s inflexible public health institutions: Matt Yglesias repeating a common theme.
— Readers Respond with Useful Professional Development: Matt “Dean Dad” Reed collects some suggestions of things that were actually a good use of faculty/staff time.
—Athletes Have Become Stunningly Dissimilar: I don’t remember why I opened this, but it’s an interesting collection of measurements of the very different body types now seen in different sports.
Pseudo-Random Photo of the Week:
From our lunch in Manhattan last Saturday.
Pseudo-Random Song of the Week:
Came up on shuffle play this morning, seemed sort of fitting.
Here are the traditional buttons:
And if you are so moved, the comments will be open.