The New Academia: "Wages of Security"

For those of you in the new academia—no tenure, no budget, no promotion track, growing workload, diminishing returns, no administrative staff, angrier students, and greater expectations from department heads and deans. This episode of Back to Work is worth a serious listen... all the way to the end. If your deparment, university, program, center, lab, whathaveyou is tanking... you aren't going to turn it around.

Back to Work Zen & Hsin-Hsin Ming

The latest Back to Work I heard, #46 is outstanding on meta-distraction and more importantly the widespread misuse of Zen. Back to Work is a show by Dan Benjamin and Merlin Mann. Listen. I tend to be a practitioner whose inclination is to hit people with a stick.

Also, check out the Hsin-Hsin Ming. Someone pointed me to this page with the original text and a detailed discussion of the characters.

Could Not Stop Laughing: Roderick on the Line

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