It’s been just over a year since I moved back to Austin. This was supposed to be an end-of-the-year post, but now it’s a beginning-of-the-year post. Last month I helped a client who needed a website, STAT. The business was going to be mentioned in an industry publication, and we had three days. To me,
I have a horrible confession to make: I once wrote a scholarly article on Linear B (the oldest form of Greek, written in cool-looking hieroglyphs). I never even put it on my CV because it’s an embarrassingly obscure topic, even in the world of dead languages. Michael Ventris is the genius who proved that Linear
A former student of mine wrote in asking what we could do to save Classics in the wake of program after program being cut; they included a questionnaire of sorts and because I spent way too much time on it this weekend, I figured I’d share the answers. FYI, I also told them that we
On Sunday I set out to answer the following reader email: I need some advice on how to advise my 17 year old daughter. Like so many kids her age, they have heard that going to college and getting a degree is the path to personal and professional success. As events in the last few
Dr. Karen Kelsky, my guest author today, not only left after getting tenure, she left after becoming the head of a department. And she’s even willing to admit that there’s some good in academia, but has no tolerance for delusion — which is why I asked her to post here. She’s also started a business,