Category: Wisdom

  • In a University of Southern California graduation address, Snoop Dogg offered a statement that feels increasingly urgent in the age of artificial intelligence. The world does not need more copies. It needs originals. What might sound like cultural commentary is, in fact, strategic advice for navigating a rapidly changing economy and technological age. As AI…

    Will AI Kill Originality and Creativity?
  • Yesterday, my daughter Lucia was admitted to the University of Michigan, and I cried for hours. I did not expect that kind of reaction, but it came anyway, uninvited and unstoppable. It was not a single wave of emotion. It was layer after layer of memory, relief, fear, pride, and gratitude colliding all at once.…

    Carrying Fire: Why My Daughter’s Michigan Acceptance Broke Me Open
  • I recently had a colleague who liked to joke about inappropriate topics in executive meetings, often in ways that made the room tense, or at least made me uneasy. The comments were always framed as humor, and my boss seemed to really, really enjoy them, but her humor never quite landed for me. Over time,…

    When You’re Joking, You’re 70 Percent Serious?
  • Rick Hess recently published a satirical post about education, schools, and teachers that quickly circulated through policy and media circles. The piece featured a recognizable figure and advanced well-worn critiques: a caricatured dean and a vision of education heavy on jargon, light on evidence, and seemingly more committed to political ideology than better outcomes for…

    What Rick Hess Got Really Wrong about Teachers and Education
  • When I read Chris Lund’s social media post publicly declining the idea of moving to the United States, his words landed not as provocation but as clarity. I did not know who he was at the time, but he is an artist living in Norway. His post surfaced in response to Donald Trump’s widely reported…

    Leaving the Spa for a Burning Hot Dog Stand

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