Career Advice: New Year, New Habits | Inside Higher Ed “Because the beginning of the academic year is filled with fresh starts, I want to encourage you to make this week a fresh new beginning in your relationship with your writing. The best way to start is to…”
What does it take to be happy? About $75,000. | Chicago Tribune “The study found that people’s evaluations of their lives improved steadily with annual income. But the quality of their everyday experiences–their feelings–did not improve above an income of $75,000 a year. As income decreased from $75,000, people reported decreasing happiness and increasing sadness, as well as stress.”
Women Lead in Doctorates | Inside Higher Ed “But the fields in which women now make up a majority go well beyond arts and humanities, and include health sciences and the biological sciences.”
Affirmative Action for Dead People | FemaleScienceProfessor “Looking beyond the traditional definition of noteworthy for selecting candidates for obituaries in the Times is not affirmative action for dead people. You can’t right a historic wrong, but you can stop participating in the perpetuation of bias by focusing attention only on those who have succeeded in traditional ways in business, academia, government, journalism etc. Don’t wait for the day when women and minorities succeed like white men in positions that were formerly the exclusive province of white men. Death to inequality!”
letting go of fake needs | mnmlist “Our lives are filled with things we need to do. Until we look a little more closely at those needs…Examine one of your made-up needs, and ask yourself why it’s such an important need. Would you have more free time and more space to concentrate and create, or less stress and fewer things to check off each day? What bad things would happen — or might happen? And how likely is it that these things would happen? And how could you counter-act them?”