Many people suffer from a peculiar affliction. They believe that complex problems can have simplistic solutions. Like infomercial products, these solutions are usually too good to be true and there is a name for people who buy them. They are called suckers. A few months ago, I finally got around to reading Daniel Pink’s best-seller, A [...]
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Graduate Programs are Broken. Only Your Advisor Can Save You.
Image via Wikipedia It took exactly one semester of graduate school in 2005 for me to realize that pursing a PhD was not going to be the intellectual journey I had hoped it would be. As the semester progressed, the farce they called a PhD started to unravel. In one class with a lofty title, “High [...]
