Tag: 07.30.17

Why Using Shame As A Management Tactic Is A Bad Idea – The Ultimate Example

Lila MacLellan takes a terrifying recent near-miss at SFO as a departure point for a discussion of what’s called “just culture” or “psychological safety” in the workplace. “It turns out that no one wakes up in the morning and jumps out of bed because they can’t wait to get to work today to look ignorant, intrusive, incompetent or negative.”

American English Is Swallowing Up Britain, As The British Shrug And Say ‘Whatever’

“As we approach 2020, the American words the British invited into their homes are in danger of taking over. It has become possible to imagine a time – 2120 would seem a plausible and arithmetically neat guesstimate – when American English absorbs the British version completely. The child will have eaten its mother, but only because the mother insisted.” Peter Preston blames the telly TV and Netflix.

The Poet-Scientist Who Laid The Foundation For The Information Age

In 1937, at the age of 21, Claude Shannon showed how binary circuits could do logic, could even appear to “think”—the discovery behind all of our digital computers today. In 1948, at the age of 32, he published “A Mathematical Theory of Communication,” a paper that has been called “the Magna Carta of the Information Age”—in other words, a founding document that inaugurated an era.

Arts Journalism Is Disappearing. Can Arts Organizations Do Anything About It?

“Arts organizations and journalists need each other. Yet, to work together effectively, we need to change the mantra from ‘butts in seats’ to ‘civic discourse’ and work with media and the community in a mutually beneficial way. We can be conduits and facilitators, a constant resource to journalists, giving them the ability to experiment. We need to ensure our organizations are building relationships with journalists, editors, bloggers, and influencers, and researching media outlets before pitching.”

Here’s How The Internet’s Culture Wars (And Memes) Led To This Presidency

The so-called “alt-right” didn’t go for National Review style (not in any way). Instead, “they have adopted the fetishism of transgression that marked the Cultural Studies left: they embedded themselves in subcultural styles repellent to mainstream, middlebrow liberal sensibilities and they call on their armies to attack the tastes and sensibilities embodied by n00bs and ‘normies.'”

A Museum Plans To Sell 40 Paintings To Fund Its Renovations, But Here’s Why That’s A Bad Idea

Using artworks in the collection as fundraising sources a terrible message for potential art donors, not to mention the public. “One of the most fundamental and long-standing principles of the museum field is that a collection is held in the public trust and must not be treated as a disposable financial asset … Two of the works the Museum is currently planning to sell are important paintings by Norman Rockwell, given by the artist to the people of Pittsfield.”