Imagine a mixed salad.
Let’s make it simple: You’ve got lettuce, cucumbers, tomatoes, and garlic (because garlic should go on just about everything).
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The myth of “shameless self-promotion”
I never got the concept of “shameless self-promotion.”
The phrase presumes that self-promotion is normally shameful. And that if you’re promoting yourself—if you’re putting your ideas and your work into the world—you must be shameless.
Please stop ghosting people
Ghosting is becoming too common.
If you’ve never heard the term, it refers to the practice of ending all communication with a person.
The one question I ask myself frequently
Back when I was a professor, I was appointed the chair of a faculty committee.
At the time, the committee had a decades-old practice of holding meetings every month. Having sat through—no, suffered through—these meetings as a junior committee member, I knew we could cut the number in half and still get the job done.