Food for thought
"Words are things. You can put a few words together and make people want to go to war. Put a different set of words together and make them long for peace." --Maya Angelou
On perfection…
"Work hard, rest deeply, and let go of striving for perfection; the world desperately needs you to be something better than perfect....we need you to be you." --Paul & the Ripples Project Also everyone who is alive should watch this. "When you know better, you do better." --Dr. Maya Angelou
RELEVANT READS: “Millenials Aren’t Lazy: They’re F****d
"The problem with all this job-creation is the new jobs are all worse than our previous jobs, which, to be honest weren’t all that rad in the first place. Some jobs, they don’t even pay money, which is still a thing you need some of to live." Read the full article.
Every artist needs a critic
A continuation from yesterday's topic on the changing landscape of journalism... Gisele Regatao reports on Why Art Critics Matter
Is entrepreneurship the only way to make it as a journalist?
With the advent of the 24-hour news cycle, news-on-demand, breaking news on social media, bloggers, and the free market of ideas and news that the Internet has provided, it is safe to say that traditional print journalism will never be as it was before. The days of graduating from college, getting a job at a paper, and working your way…
Praising the best, or highlighting the achievement gap?
Newsweek's list of the 2000 best high schools in America was released this week. As I was browsing through the list I started looking at my home state of Georgia to see if I recognized any of the schools on the list. I went to high school in Gwinnett County, which has long been one of the best, if not…