Category: Wisdom
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Audiences can always sense when a speaker is recycling a talk or going through the motions. The slides look generic, the stories do not quite connect, and the message hovers above the realities of the room. That is why I never give the same keynote twice. Every audience, whether teachers in Santa Barbara, community advocates…
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I was angry when someone who reported to me in the provost’s office wanted nix our funding commitment to the Native American community on campus. His justification stopped me in my tracks. He said, “There are only four or five Indians on our campus.” I was incensed. The comment was not only inaccurate, it was…
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Donald Trump wants to rewrite history by silencing museums that teach the truth about slavery. That is not leadership, it is dictatorship. When Trump rails against the Smithsonian and other museums as “woke” for teaching how brutal slavery was, he is not just throwing around a campaign insult. He is signaling that he wants to…
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Recently, billionaire investor Charlie Munger died at the age of 99. Known for his decades-long partnership with Warren Buffett at Berkshire Hathaway, Munger built a legacy not only through financial acumen but also through a set of principles he insisted were deceptively simple: live below your means, keep learning, act with integrity, and avoid toxic…
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By now, most people have heard the news. U.S. District Judge Stephanie Gallagher, herself a Trump appointee, ruled that the Department of Education acted unlawfully when it issued two guidance documents directing colleges to dismantle their diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs or risk losing federal funding. “The government cannot proclaim that it ‘will no…
Cloaking Inequity 