Is The Future In-Office, Remote or Both?
Where people work will influence what jobs are available. Back in March, the assumption seemed to be that most white collar workers being sent home because of the coronavirus outbreak would be able to...
View Article2021 Writing Encouragement Courtesy of “Disenchantment”
Luci is here to help you finish that project. If you’re looking for a way to get your new year's writing started on the right foot, you need look no further than Luci, the helpful demon on Netflix’s...
View ArticleWell, That Was 45
It was, as they say, a year. I’ve likely said something like this before, but for someone like myself who likes clean starts, having a birthday that comes within days of the turn of the new year is...
View ArticleLearning As a Vocation
Today I learned… Much of the period between July, 2016 and March, 2020 was a combination of thrilling, frustrating, exciting and nerve-wracking. After being let go from Voce Communications I embarked...
View ArticleRandom Writing Advice From Movies and TV
Let’s get this all out in the air. Last Friday, for reasons unclear to me, everyone started sharing their own Harsh Writing Advice on Twitter. https://twitter.com/ChrisThilk/status/1355273806080831491...
View ArticleConsidering the Future of the Workplace
“Where” may not be as important as “how” people work. First, let’s acknowledge that the U.S. labor market is still a complete disaster. U.S. employers added 49,000 jobs in January, after a revised drop...
View Articleeditors, blogging and platform/publishing confusion
Rough couple days for the media, mostly because the rules have been thrown out. Over the last few weeks a bruhaha has been bubbling around Substack, the hot new email publishing tool that allows...
View Articleon sweet tooth
“Sweet Tooth” an adaptation of the Vertigo series from writer/artist Jeff Lemire, debuted on Netflix earlier this month and has been accumulating positive reviews and word of mouth....
View Articlefeatures for a new wave of rss readers
Sure, at various points over the last several years I’ve joined in the lamentations of others over the fate of Google Reader. As a die hard RSS junkie, it was a tool I used for a good long while, and...
View Articlesocial media experience vs. learning
Let’s talk about this story about the maturation of “social media manager” as a job. The basic premise – that the responsibilities usually covered under that title have certainly evolved and now play a...
View Articleon the great facebook outage of october 2021
a few thoughts about what happened yesterday As you likely know, Facebook – along with other apps owned by the company including Instagram and Whatsapp – were offline yesterday for a bit over six hours...
View Articlecelebrating two years @ gonoodle
It’s been Champ-tastic Last week marked my two-year anniversary as Director, Content Programming at GoNoodle. For those unfamiliar with GoNoodle, we offer hundreds of videos designed for kids –...
View Articleproposal for new hiring requirements: mst3k fans
Hire someone willing to make fun of anything There are certainly bigger things going on in the world right now, but something media-related caught my eye a couple weeks ago. Specifically, the...
View Articlewe’re still making workers jump through unnecessary hoops
Why haven’t employer expectations changed? A couple weeks ago LinkedIn announced a new feature offering people a new way to “explain” a career break or other gap in their resume. According to the...
View Articlebe the jedi you know you are
I’ve been doing this for 40+ years and thought I was the only one, but it turns out not only do others do the same thing but Ewan McGregor is among our number: Because it turns out McGregor has, in...
View Articlewhittling down to the essentials
I know we’re supposed to rise and grind. Or that we’re supposed to hustle until it hurts. That the TED Talkers espouse two hours of sleep because that’s what it takes to make it happen. That...
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