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Two Shot Rule
English Pool at Rileys Story behind the Passage “Thank you for your understanding.” You know that phrase, right? How often do you hear it when you actually have little to no understanding? Yes, this is exactly what I need to talk about today. There is a simple story behind this topic. I actually violated one my…
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Book Of The Week 100 Million Hair Ties And A Vodka Tonic Part Ii
Trelles-Tvede, Sophie (2020). 100 Million Hair Ties and a Vodka Tonic An Entrepreneur’s Story. Story behind the Book Choice Last week, I started discussing Sophie Trelles-Tvede’s book about the founding and expansion of invisibobbles but I did not get through with the reading (Part I). That is obviously why I have to do my remaining…
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Lighting A Fire
Attributed to William Butler Yeats Story behind the Passage I attended an online workshop today. It was interdisciplinary but very literary-studies-scholar dominated. It was kind of a reverse culture shock for me. If you are used to working so much with so many different disciplines (theory and practice), always in the in-between, you kind of forget…
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Creative Junkie
Zoo Station: The Story of Christiane F. (2013/1978). Story behind the Passage There are people who want to move on, get out of their comfort zone — learn. And there are people who learned early in life that, whenever they have some idea, other people can implement it. They watch, they cheer, they are proud of the…
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Democracy
Follett, Mary Parker (1998/1918). The New State: Group Organization the Solution of Popular Government, 142. Story behind the Passage On a day like this one when the German chancellor publicly admits that she made a MISTAKE — one has to write about democracy. It is so interesting to observe what pandemics do to political systems and cultures….
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Coming Of Age
Cuddon, J. A. (1999). Dictionary of Literary Terms & Literary Theory, 81–82. Story behind the Passage It is quite revealing to learn that everything has a time. All innovations have their time. I always think back of Steve Jobs in this context. Had he invented the iPhone or even the Mac many years earlier, there would…
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Chaos Communication
Rio, Ezequiel del, and Sergio Elaskar (2016). “The Intermittency Route to Chaos.” Handbook of Applications of Chaos Theory. Ed. Christos H. Skiadas, Charilaos Skiadas 2016. 3 Story behind the Passage Chaos is the thing that I am most afraid of and it is also the thing that constantly keeps occurring in my life. As with anything,…
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Life Writing Changes Lives
Koelbl, Susanne (2019). Behind the Kingdom’s Veil: Inside the New Saudi Arabia under Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, 260–61. Story behind the Passage Yes, I discussed Susanne Koelbl’s book Behind the Veil before (“Unveiling the Paradox”) but I have to write about it again today. This is not because I want to write about Saudi Arabia…
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Bureaucracy And Power
Gerth, H. H., and C. Wright Mills, eds. (2009). From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology, 232. Story behind the Passage There is no way of doing justice to Max Weber in one short blog post — so I am not even going to try. I simply have to write about the topic today because it is increasingly…
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Book Of The Week 100 Million Hair Ties And A Vodka Tonic
Trelles-Tvede, Sophie (2020). 100 Million Hair Ties and a Vodka Tonic an Entrepreneur’s Story. Story behind the Book Choice My story today is going to be very simple because it is very short. Well, short is not always simple, to the contrary. Still, in this case, brevity is a matter of making the writing easier…