A very long time ago, I had a teacher who taught a class I didn’t find particularly challenging. Like most lads of 11 or 12, I found other, generally disruptive ways to amuse myself (and often my classmates) in lieu of the lesson being taught. As an aside, once I became a teacher several years later, I didn’t find it all that amusing when some of my charges did similar things.
Inevitably, she would reel me back to Earth and ask me in a phrase that the whole class came to know and love “Keith, why you do these things?” No, English was not her first language but it was a language class anyway so not much English was spoken. I bring this up because I find myself asking the same question about something this morning and maybe you can help me answer. Continue reading
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Why You Do These Things?
Filed under digital media, Huh?
True Confessions
There are a few things going on these days which sort of got connected in my mind this morning. As you read this you’ll probably go “duh, it took him way too long as usual” but I’ve been trying not to jump to conclusions so I may seem a little slow. The three things are the gulf oil spill, the Goldman hearings, and the coal mine tragedy and while they’re very different things, I think at their cores is exactly the same behavior. Continue reading
Filed under Helpful Hints, What's Going On
Credibility
If you’ve been playing along with the home version of our game you know that I’ve been on a jury in a civil trial for the past couple of weeks. The trial is over, the jury dismissed and so I’m able to write all about it, which I’m not going to do in great detail. However, the basis upon which we rendered our verdict got me thinking and, of course, it became a decent business lesson. Continue reading
Filed under Reality checks, What's Going On
Consult Keith 