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The New Englander: November 2013

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Tuesday, November 19, 2013. Show Me a Man Who's Angry. And I'll show you a man who cares. It works in nearly any context. The only trick is that by 'angry' I don't mean someone who just gets mad when it's his or her issue (i.e. a dispute about pay, sick days, leave, etc.) I mean show me a person who gets fired up about the job itself. And I'll say you've got a quality employee on your hands. Monday, November 18, 2013. The Sorta Counterintuitive Thing About "Free". Does that make them desperate? In their ...

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The New Englander: Adjuncts, Wages, and Poverty

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Friday, April 17, 2015. Adjuncts, Wages, and Poverty. I've read a few articles lately about adjunct salaries. Some have quoted adjuncts at various universities who talk about how they earn a poverty wage, how they're on food stamps, how they're considered expendable, etc. In exchange for teaching these courses, I receive what I consider to be a fair supplement. To my annual household income. It would qualify me as poor. By itself. It would leave me without health insurance. Some of the articles I've seen...

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The New Englander: August 2014

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Thursday, August 14, 2014. Why Quarterly Goals Matter. A Lot. Yes, it's been quite some time. Thanks for coming back. I love to write, and I don't care how many times I've said it - I love the way this blog sort of passively keeps me in touch with a small group of friends I don't see that often. So now back to the blogging. Here's a quick thought before I turn in for the night: Quarterly goals are hugely important. Save 'em for the review at the end of September. Ice 'em until Q4. Instead, say something ...

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The New Englander: December 2013

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Saturday, December 28, 2013. The Best Thing I Heard in 2013 About.Public Speaking. During one of our Sandbox Summer Accelerator classes, Todd Frye (Mill Cities Leadership Institute) offered us a class on public speaking. One thing he said that stood out for me was a break-from-the-crowd opinion about so-called "filler words." His take on them? Only when they become a distraction - like when Caroline Kennedy says 'you know' 163 times in a three-minute TV interview - are they bad. Monday, December 23, 2013.

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The New Englander: March 2014

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Sunday, March 30, 2014. Just the Answers, Nothing More. A UML student doing a research project about downtown just e-mailed me a '10 questions about downtown' survey. I pasted in my answers below. With most of the questions, you'll be able to figure out the question through context.with the rest, it's whatever you want it to be.your very own Rohrshach test. 4 I'd say 200 Market St, because that encompasses Canal Place I, II, and III. 8 Lowell Downtown Neighborhood Association. It's a great group but ...

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The New Englander: December 2014

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Monday, December 8, 2014. Lots of time has elapsed between entries, so thanks for coming back. Things are good. I'd say things are 'busy' but as I've written about before, the word 'busy' doesn't seem to have much meaning today. When the sideshow stuff crowds out the main effort, it can seem frustrating.but the seasonality to it all is that Labor-to-Turkey is always going to be the nuttiest time of year. So things are easing up a bit now. Of the outside work.which crowds out. Sometimes that all makes me ...

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The New Englander: Privileged? Oh, Let Me Count the Ways!

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Wednesday, April 29, 2015. Oh, Let Me Count the Ways! I am a straight, white, Protestant male. I didn't choose any of that - except, sort of, the next-to-last one - but I benefit from unearned privilege in an immeasurable number of ways, large and small. I could write a lot more about these ways, but here are two specifics for you, for the sake of brevity and for the sake of the students whose exams I need to grade en masse. What is about me. How might they react to a 'me' that wasn't quite so pale?

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The New Englander: Why Quarterly Goals Matter... A Lot

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Thursday, August 14, 2014. Why Quarterly Goals Matter. A Lot. Yes, it's been quite some time. Thanks for coming back. I love to write, and I don't care how many times I've said it - I love the way this blog sort of passively keeps me in touch with a small group of friends I don't see that often. So now back to the blogging. Here's a quick thought before I turn in for the night: Quarterly goals are hugely important. Save 'em for the review at the end of September. Ice 'em until Q4. Instead, say something ...

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The New Englander: May 2014

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Wednesday, May 21, 2014. I thoroughly enjoyed this. Article about the role of "busy" in modern American life. I have a confession to make: At times, over the past five or so months, I've grown to loathe this word - so much so, in fact, that I've tried to stop using it altogether. I tried to stab at it a couple entries ago; basically, the long and the short of it is that several opportunities came together a la fois. Hence my confession - I got tired of hearing people talk about how 'busy' they were all t...

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The New Englander: Perma-Working

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Monday, December 8, 2014. Lots of time has elapsed between entries, so thanks for coming back. Things are good. I'd say things are 'busy' but as I've written about before, the word 'busy' doesn't seem to have much meaning today. When the sideshow stuff crowds out the main effort, it can seem frustrating.but the seasonality to it all is that Labor-to-Turkey is always going to be the nuttiest time of year. So things are easing up a bit now. Of the outside work.which crowds out. Sometimes that all makes me ...