Nuance, context, facts, culture: 10 terms to (hope to) define America and Americans as we move forward
I propose en emphasis on ten terms as we move forward and live together. If you feel like you "won" with this election, you should…
Author: Josh Shear
Stop cursing 2016 and go make something great
I see a lot of people on social media cursing 2016 for taking some of our greatest creative minds. A lot of one-of-a-kinds died this…
Regressing toward a higher mean, or, there’s room for everyone to be great
There’s a phenomenon in statistics called regression toward the mean. You can read a good explanation of it here, but the short version goes like…
DAPL, public input, permitting processes and regulation
In case you don’t follow stories that many media outlets largely ignore, here’s a brief overview of what’s been going on in North Dakota the…
Lessons in leadership from Jocko Willink: Extreme Ownership and beyond
Thanks @CourtneyHendo_ for taking pictures of training today. Dean and I going to war again. It never gets old. pic.twitter.com/vUVe4Y4sod — Jocko Willink (@jockowillink) March…
Parsing the 2016 US presidential election
#vote or shut yer trap. #election2016 A photo posted by Josh Shear (@joshuanshear) on Nov 8, 2016 at 6:25am PST Donald Trump will be the…
Election reform and the evolving myth of Two Americas (hint: there aren’t just two)
In 2004, John Edwards gave a convention speech about two Americas, drawn along economic lines. We’ve since developed the notion of The 1 Percent. This…
What’s the way out? Research in media, racism and lobotomies
“Are you a cop, too?” “No, I’m just a reporter,” I said, grabbing my notebook and recorder, climbing out of the front seat of the…
Holy crap, we’re an amazing species
The photo at the top of this post was taken with a cell phone on a plane while I was listening to Tchaikovsky on Sirius…
Thoughts on Charlotte, #BLM vs. #ALM and implementing movements
Demonstrations last week in Charlotte in the wake of the shooting of a black man by a police officer were not unexpected. Our memories are…