Kategorie: Allgemein
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Book Of The Week The Music Business And Digital Impacts
Nordgård, Daniel (2018). The Music Business and Digital Impacts: Innovations and Disruptions in the Music Industries. Story behind the Book Choice This morning someone whom I greatly admire for his visionary thinking and his ability to also implement visionary ideas sent me an article about the disruption of the music business and the latter’s inability…
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The Wave
“Surfin’ U.S.A.” The Beach Boys. Story behind the Passage On some days — only poetry can do. My Learnings You want to surf, Desperately. You go to the beach, Every day. You wait for the wave, The big one. It does not come. You go again, You wait. You pray. You hope. You research the perfect place. It…
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Unveiling The Paradox
Koelbl, Susanne (2019). Zwölf Wochen in Riad: Saudi Arabien zwischen Diktatur und Aufbruch, 77. Story behind the Passage Today I watched a short report about the German war and crisis photographer Ursula Meissner. The report was about her decade-long work and the fact that right now all the trips have been canceled due to the…
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Poets As Managers
Pink, Daniel H. (2005). A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future, 143. Story behind the Passage Hardly any day passes without a conversation about the future. Most people I talk to think about the future of business. Some think about their personal future. Others try to not think about the future at all…
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Learning About Learning
Zipfel, Astrid, and Michael Kunczik (2001). Publizistik, 414. Story behind the Passage Is it normal that people who learn a lot also think a lot about learning? And why do I even worry about that? I mean, I already know that my ‘normal’ is usually not the normal of others. But I am not asking…
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Book Of The Week What Tech Calls Thinking
Daub, Adrian (2020). What Tech Calls Thinking. Story behind the Book Choice “Arrogance” is going to be the buttom line of today’s book discussion. No, this is not because I am annoyed by the fact that I actually had to start a new Word document today. The old file with my previous 127 posts is…
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Beyond Alt Ac And Post Ac
Higgins, Sabrina C., and Megan Daniels (2015). “Alternative Academics: Moving beyond the Academy.” Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology & Heritage Studies 3:3: 238–246, 239. Story behind the Passage In a conversation with a colleague today I learned a new word: “alternative academics.” As always, I love learning new concepts, especially if they describe things that I…
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Blended Academics Live Your Career Narrative
“How Nonlinear Careers Are Becoming the New Normal” (2017). The Atlantic. Story behind the Passage Today I received an inquiry from a graduate center at a German university. It contains an introduction explaining why there is a need to provide career guidance for junior researchers, particularly postdocs. And then it ends with the question whether…
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Bureaucratic Bullshit Avoiders Save Lives
Bolzen, di Stefanie, and Antonello Guerrera (6 Feb. 2021). Kate Bingham: Why UK strategy on Covid vaccines has been a great success. La Repubblica/Die Welt. Story behind the Passage Yesterday, I happened to watch a report about the British vaccination success story. I had not followed up on this closely. But as soon as they…
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Trust
Black, John, Nigar Hashimzade, and Gareth Myles (2017). Oxford Dictionary of Economics, 535. Story behind the Passage Sometimes I think about trust a lot. Obviously, other people do that as well, especially because of the impact of the virus on people’s overall life situation. Yesterday, they ran an entire talk show on the topic. It…