Tag: Terry Gross

Would you lie on your Resume? – Reflections prompted by Timothy Olyphant (Justified)

News Item:  Justified (the program on FX) just won a Peabody Award The entertainment programs selected included The Good Wife, a CBS dramatic series about a political spouse’s life after her husband’s scandalous downfall, and Justified, FX’s modern-day Western set in the wild, wild hills and hollows of Appalachia. People distort reality.  (Out of 1,000… Read More Would you lie on your Resume? – Reflections prompted by Timothy Olyphant (Justified)

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“Finish with Power” -The Presentation Tip of the Day (from the Great Bill Monroe)

Here is the presentation tip of the day.  When you speak to a live audience, in any setting, the first and most simple rule is this:  speak so that your audience can hear, and understand, your words. I teach speech at the community college level.  I can’t tell you how many students will “trail off”… Read More “Finish with Power” -The Presentation Tip of the Day (from the Great Bill Monroe)

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A Quote for the Day from C.J. Chivers, author of The Gun – “The Junior Varsity’s all dead”

Terry Gross interviewed C.J. Chivers earlier this week, The AK-47: ‘The Gun’ That Changed The Battlefield (transcript, and audio, here).  Chivers is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist for the New York Times, a former Marine, and the author of The Gun, a book about the AK47.  In the interview, Mr. Chivers said this: Well, you know,… Read More A Quote for the Day from C.J. Chivers, author of The Gun – “The Junior Varsity’s all dead”

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“You Cannot Do More Than One Thing At A Time” – Science Comfirms The Advantage Of “Single-Tasking”

This is from a recent interview by Terry Gross on Fresh Air.  (Listen, and read transcript, here).  I did not hear it live, and my wife “encouraged” me to listen to it.  (I wonder why?!) The interview is with NY Times technology journalist Matt Richtel, who writes the series Your Brain on Computers, and his… Read More “You Cannot Do More Than One Thing At A Time” – Science Comfirms The Advantage Of “Single-Tasking”

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Accentuate the Positive — Johnny Mercer’s Anthem for Difficult Days

You’ve got to spread joy up to the maximum Bring gloom down to the minimum Have faith or pandemonium’s Liable to walk upon the scene — Johnny Mercer On the Wednesday, November 18 broadcast of NPR’s Fresh Air, Terry Gross had a wonderful concert of Johnny Mercer music.  This would have been Mercer’s 100th birthday.… Read More Accentuate the Positive — Johnny Mercer’s Anthem for Difficult Days

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