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Learning to Get Unstuck

There’s a fair amount to be anxious about these days. Pick a card, any card: frayed democracies, fractured alliances, railroaded citizens, “your body, my choice,” on and on. It’s one thing to obsess over yoyoing stock portfolios, but how’d you like to be a young adult bracing for the third recession of your short life as you flirt with such…

On Taking Tech Bros to Task

Perhaps Kara Swisher was destined to cover the internet, given that both she and it came into existence in 1962. Back then the web was envisioned as an Intergalactic Computer Network with the potential to deliver “unity among humankind, too, brought to you by the miracles of technology.” Assuming you agree we’ve fallen a smidge short of that lofty goal,…

Never Mind the Tariffs, Here’s the Real News

I gotta respect a business book writer who names a passage “Forget Best Practices.” Steve Pratt does just that in 2024’s Earn It, and his point is a good one: if everyone follows purported best practices in their messaging, there’ll be a sameness in what’s produced. Pratt’s career in marketing was built by being different (odd, even) and he implores…

Tune In to the Groovy New Sound

That college radio has endured over many decades is no small feat. The constant struggles are what should it be, who should it serve, and what is the point. All this and more is deeply explored in Live from the Underground by Fitchburg State University history professor Katherine Rye Jewell. Even at just 10 watts, these non-commercial, educational stations are…