Hard agree. (Big fan of old fashioned core curriculum here; give everyone two full years of liberal education. Tough shit if you dont like history or philosophy or polisci.)

Know who knows how to manage budgets? All those research faculty in labs that they would never give tenure line jobs. Those are the folks who know how to get things done on a shoestring.

Crazy. All of it.

Sitting on my to-read pile and I think I can’t let it go any longer.

Make a little time each week for stuff that opens your world: read a novel on the side; go to a music or theatre performance. Think about the arts and how they help us be human.