Tonight’s damage to our wine cellar…
Category: thought
Parenting teens is hard. Rewarding, yet too often heartbreaking. And, sometimes, you are the one having to break their hearts and yours at the same time in order to teach valuable lessons.
Secret Internet Friends — Bethany Gladhill
My wife writes a wonderful ode to online forums and the lasting IRL friendships they spawned for her.
Looming Enrollment Cliff Poses Serious Threat to Colleges | BestColleges
If you’re not in the group of people currently in the college search process, you may not have heard about “The Cliff”:
Enrollments have been dropping for a decade and cratered during the COVID-19 pandemic.
To make matters even worse, a dangerous precipice looms on the near horizon, a demographic phenomenon known as the enrollment cliff. Many colleges won’t survive the fall.
This will have wide societal ripple effects for decades so important to pay some attention to.
My wife has thoughts…
Daft Social lets you post and share notes, links or images by email subject only. From any email account.
Doesn’t even seem to be a timeline. Thus it’s kind of more of a micro blog than Micro.blog. Very interesting. (W00t)
With poetic lyrics that feel both staggeringly prescient and of sweeping timelessness, this buoyant hymn of optimism ripples against the current of our time as a mighty countercultural anthem of resistance and resilience, worthy of Whitman.
Worth your time.
The blessing of uncertainty – annie mueller
To understand someone else’s perspective (even a little), you’ve got to acknowledge that your own is limited. That your views come not from absolute truth but from subjective experience.
Yep. So much this.
If you’re in the startup world or are a entrepreneur, my friend and mentor Garrick van Buren has been killing it with helpful advice in his newsletter For Starters. Well worth your consideration.
Ordering my Day One Journal as a book is one of my favorite annual traditions. So cool to be able to pull past years off of the bookshelf and remember the incredible life we have.