Dear God
/Dear God. No use tryin' to kid You ... You know I done it. -Denise the Menace
ideas that challenge / comfort / inspire
Avoiding the Transitions
/Individuals will walk out of relationships, rather than letting go of the approach to the relationships that made them unsuccessful and unsatisfying in the past. Individuals will look for new jobs rather than face the attitudes and behaviors toward work and toward authority-figures that made them unsuccessful in all of their past jobs. They don’t ask what it is time for them to let go of. Instead they say they need to start over. Individuals will decide to move to a new house or a new town, rather than letting go inwardly of the old way of living that lacked meaning. They make a change rather than making the more profound transition, which would put them on a genuinely new life-path.
William Bridges, The Way of Transition
Genuine love
/Genuine love is an active striving for the growth and happiness of the loved person, rooted in one’s own capacity to love. -Eric Fromme
Determination
/Determination is often the first chapter in the book of excellence.
How instead of Why
/When life is hard, we often find ourselves harping on “why” questions: “Why is this happening to me?” In those moments, Elaine Fox (author of Switch Craft: The Hidden Power of Mental Agility) suggests letting go of the “why” and asking “how” instead: “How can I change this situation?” Or perhaps you’re already asking a “how” question, but the wrong one: Instead of “How do I stop working so much?,” she explains, try an easier question: “How can I find time to go to the gym?”
Kira Newman writing in Greater Good
The Present with a Twist?
/Because time is such a slippery concept, we tend to imagine the future as the present with a twist, thus our imagined tomorrows inevitably look like slightly twisted versions of today. The reality of the moment is so palpable and powerful that it holds imagination in a tight orbit from which it never fully escapes … we fail to recognize that our future selves won’t see the world the way we see it now.
Daniel Gilbert, Stumbling on Happiness
7 Media Webinars this week about media law, sports, ChatGPT, interviews, and more
/Mon, April 3 - Media Law Office Hours
What: Journalists with legal questions to help find answers with an attorney who specializes in this area.
Who: Attorney Matthew Leish
When: 5 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: New York’s Deadline Club
Tue, April 4 - SPJ Sports Zoom
What: We will discuss Adam's groundbreaking career, plus participants may have the ability to ask Adam questions about his journey to ESPN.
Who: Adam Schefter, ESPN Sr. NFL Insider
When: 7 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Society of Professional Journalists
Tues, April 4 - Benefits and Risks of ChatGPT and Other Generative AI Technologies
What: Examples of generative AI technology, then panelists will critically evaluate benefits and risks of ChatGPT and other generative AI technologies.Will generative AI technologies change the practice of law, and if so, how can legal education adapt?
Who: Amy Milligan, Assistant Director of Legal Writing, UofSC School of Law; Jack Neil, Founder and CEO, Hank AI; Eve Ross, Reference Librarian, UofSC School of Law; Seth Stoughton, Professor of Law, UofSC School of Law; Bryant Walker Smith, Associate Professor of Law, UofSC School of Law.
When: 7 pm. Central
Where: Zoom
Cost: $25
Sponsor: University of South Carolina School of Law
Wed, April 5 - Rethinking the Interview
What: In an Unequal World, Do We Need New Rules?
Who: Freelance science journalist Tara Haelle who frequently speaks and writes about ethical dilemmas in journalism. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, NPR, the Washington Post, etc. Naseem Miller, a senior editor at The Journalist’s Resource, a project of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University.
When: 6:30 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: NYU
Wed, April 5 - How to develop and manage collaborative investigations
What: Attendees will receive information, tips and resources on how to develop and manage collaborative investigative projects. The webinar will include information for both news organizations and freelance journalists.
Who: This session will be led by Dianna Hunt, Senior Editor at Indian Country Today and a member of Fund for Investigative Journalism Board of Directors, and Bridget Thoreson, Institute for Nonprofit News Director of Collaborations.
When: 11 am, Central
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: The Center for Cooperative Media
Wed, April 5 - How to Explain Data Through Visualization and Storytelling
What: Learn key strategies, tools and processes you can use to make data storytelling and visualization a reality.
Who: Rachel Leventhal-Weiner, Director of Evaluation and Impact, State of Connecticut, Office of Policy and Management; Eva Pereira, Chief Data Officer, City of Los Angeles; Stefanie Costa Leabo, Chief Data Officer, City of Boston; Ty Caldwell, Tableau Developer, The Management Performance Hub, State of Indiana; Gabriel Mullen, Principal Sales Engineer – SLED, Snowflake
When: 2 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: GovLoop
Thu, April 6 - Customer Experience in the Age of AI
What: How leading companies are using “intelligent experience engines” to assemble high-quality customer experiences using AI powered by customer data.
Who: David C. Edelman, executive adviser and senior lecturer at Harvard Business School, and Mark Abraham, managing director and senior partner at Boston Consulting Group.
When: 12 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Harvard Business Review
The Inbetween Times
/Unexpected solutions to difficult problems and creative ideas in general come out of a murky state where purpose and focus are temporarily suspended. Many of the decisions that change the direction of our lives are made during in-between times, after something has ended but before our lives have taken a definite new shape.
William Bridges, The Way of Transition
29 Data Science & Geospatial Articles from March 2023
/Smaller, simpler neural network models are always more suitable for real-world applications
US vs China—a video about the race to launch the next generation of space telescopes
Pentagon Prepares for Space Warfare as Potential Threats From China, Russia Grow
Remote sensing companies try to capture bigger piece of satellite imaging market
What data scientists need to know about machine learning
The value of predictive models — cartography when data is very scarce
Space Force Wants $60 Million for Ultra-Quick Satellite Launches—with just 24 hour notice
China launches second classified high resolution remote sensing satellite
China’s secret naval base in Cambodia, through satellite imagery
Four machine learning trends to watch in 2023
Valuable GitHub repositories for data engineering
OpenAI’s price cut is “a warning sign that this may be a business with few producers"
31 Generative AI Tools for text, images, & more with descriptions
Debating the rules of a conflict in orbit
Data Cleaning with Python Cheat Sheet
The difference between the roles of questions versus decisions in data science
Happiness is
/Happiness is not a feeling; rather, feelings are evidence of happiness. -Arthur C. Brooks
Leadership in Times of Difficulty
/Even if they don’t have immediate solutions, emotionally intelligent leaders are able to maintain calm in the face of difficulties. This can help their team focus their energy on coming up with solutions, rather than needlessly squandering time and effort on fear and worry.
Harvey Deutschendorf writing in Fast Company
The Job
/Don’t do the job you want to tell people you do. Do the job you want to do. -James Fallows
The Motivation behind Fake News
/Fake news may be a fight not over truth, but power, according to Mike Ananny, a media scholar at the University of Southern California. Fake news “is evidence of a social phenomenon at play — a struggle between [how] different people envision what kind of world that they want.”
Ideological fake news lands in the social media feeds of audiences who are already primed to believe whatever story confirms their worldview.
Brooke Borel writing for FiveThirtyEight
Choosing the Misery
/Force yourself to make a different choice for a short time, for at least an hour. Do something physically hard that, under different circumstances, you can easily do and that you usually enjoy, perhaps a brisk walk or a short hard run. If you can do it with a good friend who is not overly sympathetic, so much the better. While you are walking or running, especially with a friend, you will notice you are not depressing. For a short time, you are not thinking about your unhappy relationship, and you feel much better. But as soon as you finish, you tend to go back to thinking about the relationship that has gone bad, and the feeling comes back. To depress, you have to keep thinking the unhappy thoughts. To stop these thoughts, change what you want or change your behavior. There is no other way.
William Glasser, Choice Theory
7 Media Webinars this week about investigative journalism, diversity, sports, public records & more
/Tue, March 28 - 'Nellie Bly: The Investigative Journalist Who Reformed America'
What: A brief overview of Nellie's upbringing, a discussion of her two most high-profile accomplishments, including tales of her exposés, interviews, ordeals, and activism.
Who: Dave Gardner, a licensed New York City tour guide.
When: 8:30 pm, Central
Where: Zoom
Cost: $10
Sponsor: New York Adventure Club
Tue, March 28 - Diversity in News Leadership
What: How to break into news management and help others from marginalized communities grow in their careers as news leaders.
Who: Cristina Silva, Managing Editor for USA Today and Sharif Durhams, Deputy Managing Editor for The Washington Post; Sara Kehaulani Goo, Editor-in-Chief of Axios; Dorothy Tucker, Investigative reporter, CBS Chicago; Tim Archuleta, Editor-in-Chief of El Paso Times; Migdalia Figueroa, President of Telemundo Orlando.
When: 5 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free (RSVP by March 27)
Sponsor: Society of Professional Journalists, Los Angeles Chapter
Tue, March 28 – SPJ Sports Zoom
What: Suzy Kolber will talk about and answer questions about her award-winning career
Who: Suzy Kolber, ESPN Monday Night Countdown Host
When: 7 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Society of Professional Journalists
Wed, March 29 - Accessing Public Records that Governments hold close to the Vest
What: A panel discussion and Q&A on common and more investigative Freedom of Information requests, why certain public records are difficult to obtain and what newsrooms can do to hold governments accountable.
Who: Carolyn James, editor and publisher of three weekly newspapers, Timothy Bolger, the editor-in-chief of both the Long Island Press and Dan’s Papers, Charles Lane, a senior reporter focusing on special projects at WSHU Public Radio, an NPR member station serving Long Island.
When: 7 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Press Club of Long Island
Wed, March 29 - "Under the skin": A conversation about health and racism
What: Linda Villarosa will talk about how a story she wrote for the New York Times evolved into a book that exposed how race and ethnic prejudice in the medical system and society at large have contributed to the deaths of generations of Black women and children. Learn more about the people she interviewed, how to find people who will share their experiences, and how to bring context when writing about local and national public health trends.
Who: Journalist and author Linda Villarosa, former health editor at The New York Times.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: The Association of Health Care Journalists
Wed, March 29 - Blogging Best Practices for Nonprofits
What: Current trends in nonprofit blogging; Blog writing and formatting best practices; How to blog to boost SEO for your website; How to design your blog to maximize call-to-actions; How often your nonprofit should blog and the top five blog content ideas
Who: Heather Mansfield, Founder of Nonprofit Tech for Good
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Nonprofit Tech for Good
Thu, March 30 - Journalism's Role in Democracy Webinar
What: Explore journalism's role in American democracy during a time of widespread disinformation and misinformation.
Who: The Washington Post's Christine Emba
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Lorentzen Center for Faith and Work at Concordia College
The exchange
/Exchange your unlived-in face for lines of character.
an unlived life
/Destructiveness is the outcome of an unlived life. – Eric Fromm
Earnest was right, but no on listened
/As legend has it, Ernest Duchesne was a student at a French military medical school in the 1890s when he noticed that the hospital’s stable boys who tended the horses did something peculiar: They stored their saddles in a damp, dark room so that mold would grow on their undersurfaces. They did this, they explained, because the mold helped heal the horses’ saddle sores. Duchesne was fascinated and conducted an experiment in which he treated sick guinea pigs with a solution made from mold—a rough form of what we’d now call penicillin. The guinea pigs healed completely. Duchesne wrote up his findings in a thesis, but because he was unknown and young—only 23 at the time—the French Institut Pasteur wouldn’t acknowledge it. His research vanished, and Duchesne died 15 years later of tuberculosis (a disease that would someday be treatable with antibiotics). It would take 31 years for the Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming to rediscover penicillin, independently and with no idea that Duchesne had already done it. In those three decades, untold millions of people died of diseases that could have been cured. Failed networks kill ideas.
Clive Thompson, Smarter Than you Think
What a TikTok Ban Won't Do
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While Congress has been up in arms about TikTok, it has failed to pass even the most basic comprehensive privacy legislation to protect our data from being misused by all the tech companies that collect and mine it.
The even deeper problem is that putting TikTok under state control, banning it or selling it to a U.S. company wouldn’t solve the threats that the app is said to pose. If China wants to obtain data about U.S. residents, it can still buy it from one of the many unregulated data brokers that sell granular information about all of us. If China wants to influence the American population with disinformation, it can spread lies across the Big Tech platforms just as easily as other nations can.
it would be much more effective for China to just hack every home’s Wi-Fi router — most of which are manufactured in China and are notoriously insecure — and obtain far more sensitive data than it can get from knowing which videos we swipe on TikTok.
Investigative journalist Julia Angwin writing in the New York Times