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In Never Stop Learning this week I will be covering the following 1-2-3: Well, I know you’re not really hiding under your desk. Well actually I don’t know that as I haven’t rigged your house full of cameras. You could be under your desk right now for all I know. Anyway, I digress but only a little. Would you sit in a meeting in the office and hide under the desk so people couldn’t see you?

It has become common for pundits and other sundry political commentators these days to talk about their “priors.” As in, “that confirms my priors” or “my prior is that…” It’s everywhere. It’s the new lingo. But what, you might ask, is a “prior?” What are these people talking about? The answer is simple. “Prior” means “belief.” That’s all. Whenever anyone talks about their priors, they’re just talking about what they believe or what they think.

Social media is pretty cool. It’s also a tremendous time-drain and personal-potential-draining-succubus. But it’s the infinite scroll that’s rightly to blame. Many of us get drawn in to the black hole of infinite scrolling with only tingly legs from the toilet seat and missing productivity to show for it. So how do we stop the scroll? (I’m not going to say “doom scrolling” that’s too trendy and dumb.) Definitely continue reading this post but also watch the latest ParkNotes video where I cover this very post in detail (even more detail than this post): First, you may need to do some literal soul searching and find out what’s got you so twisted up that you’d rather throw your time in the toilet (on the toilet?

How do you give feedback to a CEO who’s twice your age? I was 25, a new professor called in as a last-ditch, Hail Mary effort to save a dying company. They had already fired three consultants, so why not try me? The CEO had been leading longer than I’d been alive. After several weeks of watching him in action, interviewing his senior team, and gathering data from his employees, it was time for me to bring down the hatchet.

When I finished reading the eponymous opening story of Things Remembered And Things Forgotten by Kyoko Nakajima, I was as if struck by lightning. I was at Singapore’s Changi airport, unable to share my experiences with anyone. When I was back home in Saratoga, however, there was the right kind of audience, a young man who is both a sensitive reader and writer. My son, who can exasperate me many a time, astounds me at other times with his insights and observations.

Thanks for checking out Unruly Figures! I’m able to keep these transcripts free because of the amazing people who help support this work. Want to support independent and in-depth research? Subscribe now for just $6/month or $60/year! Hello, hello friends! Today I’ve got the transcript and bibliography for Unruly Figures episode 14, Stormé DeLarverie. At the beginning of each paragraph is a time code for where you can find that in the episode.

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Flannery O’Connor (1925-1964) was one of the greatest fiction writers of the 20th century, and her essay, “Writing Short Stories,” from her collection of essays, Mystery and Manners (New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1997), is a master class in storytelling. Below I’ve distilled what I take to be the ten most significant points from O’Connor’s “master class.” If you would like to do a deeper dive on O’Connor’s approach to storytelling, note that I am currently preparing a free eBook on O’Connor’s approach to comic fiction, which will include elaboration of the points below.

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