Carl Hendrick wrote an article titled Ultra-Processed Minds: The End of Deep Reading and What It Costs Us (17 April 2025).
Continue reading “The End of Deep Reading and What It Costs Us”Surge in community college fake students defrauds financial aid and displaces legitimate students.
Bots gaming the financial aid system are overwhelming enrollment for asynchronous online classes. Legitimate students are unable to enroll as classes fill quickly, delaying graduation. Once the classes start and fake students disappear, some classes are cancelled due to insufficient enrollment.
Here are two articles on the subject:
Continue reading “Surge in community college fake students defrauds financial aid and displaces legitimate students.”Fat Over Lean Rule in Oil Painting
George O’Hanlon wrote an article for Natural Pigments titled Fat Over Lean: Essential Guide to Oil Painting Techniques for Artists (11 August 2024).
Continue reading “Fat Over Lean Rule in Oil Painting”Complexity Debt
John Pavlus wrote an article for Kellogg Insight titled The Hidden Cost of Successful Experiments about the research of Yudi Huang, Sebastien Martin, and Zhiwei (Tony) Qin.
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Frank Ryan wrote an article for Natural Pigments titled Verona Green Earth for Vibrant Flesh Tones Paints (2 May 2023).
Continue reading “Frank Ryan’s Flesh Tone Color Palette in Oil Painting”Hiring Leaders: Am I looking forward or backward?
Josh Bersin and Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic wrote an article for Harvard Business Review titled Hire Leaders for What They Can Do, Not What They Have Done (27 August 2019).
Continue reading “Hiring Leaders: Am I looking forward or backward?”Businesses need to be comfortable with ambiguity as ambiguous definitions are often those which most accurately capture broader patterns
Doug Garnett wrote a bog post titled Complexity vs Precise Language in Business (31 March 2025).
Continue reading “Businesses need to be comfortable with ambiguity as ambiguous definitions are often those which most accurately capture broader patterns”Liminal Thinking
Dave Gray wrote a blog post titled Liminal Thinking (9 November 2014).
Continue reading “Liminal Thinking”George Orwell: Politics and the English Language
George Orwell, author of Animal Farm (1945) and 1984 (1949), wrote an article titled Politics and the English Language for the April 1946 edition of Horizon.
« Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is willing to take the necessary trouble. If one gets rid of these habits one can think more clearly, and to think clearly is a necessary first step toward political regeneration: so that the fight against bad English is not frivolous and is not the exclusive concern of professional writers. »
Continue reading “George Orwell: Politics and the English Language”Culture Fit vs. Culture Add
David Burkus wrote an article titled Does Hiring For Culture Fit Actually Work? (17 March 2025).
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