I love that @LinkedIn suggests I should follow people instead of connecting with them, but then only offers up the easy option to connect.
Hot take: even LinkedIn doesn't believe following someone is more valuable than connecting with them.
Phishing emails are notoriously bad at looking legitimate. Why? Because only the most gullible will be suckered and the scammers filter everyone else out.
Similarly:
I’m working on my Master in a Legal Studies and most of the student alerts for law students are about “applying” - scholarships, student reps, moot courts, journals, internships, volunteering, etc.
Everything is gated.
My tween daughter told me a story about how she's a spy and she found out her boss is a villain.
So she fired her boss and was going to hire a new boss, but realized she would make a great boss, so she hired herself to be the boss instead.
That's my girl!💪
"The fluidity with which rights can be bequeathed and taken away, in fact, reduces rights to privileges. In a truly democratic society, civil rights should not be contingent on a fortuitous combination of Supreme Court Justices." -@KeeangaYamahttanewyorker.com/news/our-colum…
Just hear us out, we'll make it quick. @EdwardNorton has a message for all Americans: Defend your public lands and tune in LIVE to the YouTube premiere of 'Public Trust'.
TOMORROW, 9/25, 5pm PST:
TOMORROW, 9/25, 5pm PST:
TOMORROW, 9/25, 5pm PST:
youtube.com/watch?v=OGjnIG7p…
18 USC §1865(a), 36 CFR §§1.4 & 2.16(a) make it a federal crime to use animals other than horses, burros, mules or other hoofed mammals to carry equipment in a national park.
My new blog post: "All of Us Are Smarter Than Any of Us" - the cost (especially to students, and perhaps most especially to working-class students) of our society's extreme individualism: alfiekohn.org/blogs/cl
Related, competition is also detrimental to success (and often is what people are doing if the activity isn't cooperative).
alfiekohn.org/article/case-c…