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Unconventional Insight: 50 Hours in Academia
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Thursday, December 22, 2011. 50 Hours in Academia. The number of minutes allotted for presentation, the task becomes akin to fitting a sumo wrestler into a Porsche…. Of course, these slides are submitted hours in advance to the officials at the conference. Perhaps one of them enjoys sporting drives on the autobahns in his 2003 Boxster and has also obtained Yokozuna status. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). 50 Hours in Academia. Picture Window template. Powered by Blogger.
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Unconventional Insight: December 2011
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Saturday, December 24, 2011. Recently, I arrived at long-term parking at the Central Illinois Regional Airport. Given the abundance of open, flat space in Bloomington, Illinois, this lot is free to all travelers. For a young man whose most frequented airports lie are Philadelphia, O’Hare, and Newark (NJ), this is a financial boon that never ceases to amaze. Of course, the price paid for such a fiscal convenience is that one often has limited flexibility regarding the times of flights. Upon parking my car...
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Unconventional Insight: An Introduction
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Monday, September 5, 2011. So what is this blog about, and why should you take the time from your exceedingly complex and well-scheduled lives to consume it? I work in my pajamas. However, I do not sleep in them. I think “warp” is an excellent idea whether it is applied to wood, the starship enterprise, or a baseball-player’s statistics. I do not hold grudges politically, but I certainly vote grudgingly. I am theologically cynical…I met the woman I love at Hillel. There is a bottle of quintuple-X hot sau...
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Unconventional Insight: The Temporary Nature of Greatness
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Monday, January 30, 2012. The Temporary Nature of Greatness. I awoke at 6AM in the Midwest, in time to catch the 4. Sets of a tennis match which ultimately represented an epic struggle that no longer required the context of chalk-white lines and furry green spheres. Brian Phillips, a writer from grantland.com framed the greater meaning of this record-setting affair more eloquently than I could have hoped to manage myself. Nonetheless, I feel compelled to respond to chosen bits of his truly beautiful prose.
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Unconventional Insight: Superbowls and Athletic Addictions
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Thursday, February 9, 2012. Superbowls and Athletic Addictions. 8220;This was a night when you try to keep everything in perspective by going through the checklist of reasons why you shouldn't. Be depressed — "Are my kids healthy? CHECK) "Do I love my significant other? CHECK) "Are my parents still alive and healthy? CHECK) "Do I like my job? CHECK) "Do I have a good group of friends? CHECK) — and just by doing that, you feel like the biggest moron on the planet. Furthermore, despite visceral overreactio...
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Unconventional Insight: September 2011
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Tuesday, September 27, 2011. Failures of Collective Opinions. 8220;Nothing bound us to the firm but what had enticed many of us to apply: money and a strange belief that no other jobs in the world were worth doing…By coming to Saloman Brothers, we were doing only what every sane, money-hungry person would do. If we were unable to buck convention in our lives, would we be able to buck convention in the market? After all, the job market is a market. I suppose, on the surface, such a trend is not disturbing.
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Unconventional Insight: October 2011
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Thursday, October 27, 2011. 8220;More often than not, are hotter than hot, in a lot of good ways…”. The quote, from the opening song of Aladdin (that’s right, I have taken to quoting Disney movies from the late 1980s), refers to the thermal and salacious characteristics of Arabian Nights. That is not the topic of this particular discourse. Though the arid climates around the globe are often harsh and foreboding, the culinary gems they produce have become delicious additions to my gastronomic preferences.
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Unconventional Insight: February 2012
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Thursday, February 9, 2012. Superbowls and Athletic Addictions. 8220;This was a night when you try to keep everything in perspective by going through the checklist of reasons why you shouldn't. Be depressed — "Are my kids healthy? CHECK) "Do I love my significant other? CHECK) "Are my parents still alive and healthy? CHECK) "Do I like my job? CHECK) "Do I have a good group of friends? CHECK) — and just by doing that, you feel like the biggest moron on the planet. Furthermore, despite visceral overreactio...
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Unconventional Insight: Unaccountable
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Thursday, January 5, 2012. I'm not surprised that Reid was not fired. However, there is unmistakable disappointment when no one is truly accountable for undesired results. We live in an era of spin, plausible denials of responsibility, and bulletproof figures of wealth and power, whom are seemingly never truly at fault. Why do we continue to expect different behaviors? The only part of this that angers me is that we are still surprised and outraged. We get what we pay for. In total defense (no other team...
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Unconventional Insight: November 2011
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Saturday, November 19, 2011. A couple months ago, I commented upon the propensity of the human species to fail in staggering fashion as the result of collective opinions which are staggeringly wrong. I ran through the requisite arguments of evolutionary predisposition towards a herd mentality, then advocated the value of picking one’s own path. However, the dozen or so who were brazen enough to bet the house that the house of cards would collapse acquired not only fantastic amounts of money, but the pres...
