#Practice

A frequent question I get when talking with senior designers: Will my growth as a designer stall if I start managing? There is often a second question underneath that, which
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Cal Newport offers useful strategies in his books like 'Deep Work' and 'So Good They Cannot Ignore You'.He offers no non-sense advice that can help you create a meaningful and
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people who are against single-payer/socialized healthcare will tell you it's both way too expensive (it's not—unless you're really rich + your idea of 'too expensive' is paying justly proportional taxes)
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If soldiers were carrying arms during Monday's clashes, why did they not open fire? I answer that question which is far more complicated than just a border agreement or two
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Small thread. So our girls spent a week at day camp. It was our first foray into the girls being away from us and in contact with other children outside
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Right. A wee explainer for anyone who would like to understand why cancelling all the exams in Scotland will cause a massive extra workload for teachers. Feel free to ignore
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When lefties say that British history isn't taught properly, omitting huge gaps about colonial crimes, this is what we mean.I'm teaching Life in the UK history towards my refugees' Citizenship
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"His life inspired in me a joy that shall outlast eternity". These are the words that Dorothy Sale chose for her husband's epitaph. Lt Richard Sale was just one of
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I think maybe Grant’s is not a statue worth toppling. But I also understand after decades of shrugs when people spoke of the hurt of having been demeaned by public
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the lancet just published this piece claiming that heat deaths are up 54% in over 65's in the last 20 years.not only is it not even real data (it's a
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Getting close to finally writing this paper:1) The obs/RCT dichotomy is false and harmful2) RCTs are obs studies w/ VERY plausible exogenous variation in X3) All practical CI studies (RCTs
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The lack of academic discussion on here re: the cont’d brutal exploitation of athletes’ bodies whose teams have returned to practice & are getting sick - and these are primarily
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The passing of Larry King has me reflecting on the art of the interview and how the best questions are 1. Lean. Avoid the conversational temptation to load the question
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After ~10 years of academic research, I have learnt that presenting well & selling your work is as important as doing research. You need to communicate well, and doing so
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People: please don’t assign one sign language interpreter an event that goes on for more than 45 minutes and has multiple speakers. It’s not the best practice, and the interpreter
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RETWEETING IN ALL CAPShttps://twitter.com/robertslavin/status/1296417137754550273 Seriously though, this has big implications for both how we assess students this fall, and, more importantly what we do with the data. Students will backslide
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