By: Noel Liemam on February 9, 2024
With regard to this week reading, “How to make the World Add up,” by Tim Harford, it is very interesting how he used those real-life stories to make his points how information can be twisted into different meanings, or to one’s advantages. I like the way he used real stories to bring out is point,…
By: Jana Dluehosh on February 9, 2024
Do you know what cancel culture is? Have you been mysteriously ghosted after a night out? Have you had a long-lost relative jump out of the woodwork and begin to attack your latest post? Well, The Canceling of the American Mind by Greg Lukianoff and Rikki Schlott may be the book for you. Lukianoff comes…
By: Kari on February 9, 2024
I love numbers. Numbers make sense. Numbers add up. Numbers give objective data. Numbers do not lie. People on the other hand do lie. People do not always make sense nor add up. People often hide or lie about things, including numbers. These are principles I live by and found myself teaching to my employees…
By: Dinka Utomo on February 8, 2024
It’s time to bring back the old adage “Everyone is entitled to their own opinion.” -Greg Lukianoff and Rikki Schlott- Two delicate matters cannot be handled carelessly in our country: first, politics, particularly the election of the President and Vice President. Second, religion. However, it is more harmful if the two are combined. In a…
By: Julie O'Hara on February 8, 2024
Back in the days before I received the smackdown call from God to prepare for vocational ministry, I was a sales manager in the sporting goods industry. The sales reps were pretty competitive and there was a lot of strutting around by the ones with the biggest territories. In a straight commission game, the biggest…
By: Erica Briggs on February 8, 2024
I don’t like numbers, but not because I loathe math. For me, numbers are those random roots that pop up in the middle of a hike and trip me up. It’s not the fault of the roots, they’re simply existing as they were designed. Nevertheless, I judge and blame them for being in my…
By: Adam Harris on February 8, 2024
When it comes to the First Amendment and freedom of speech, so many conflicting thoughts run through my head concerning “Cancel Culture”. I’m a huge fan of Jonathan Haidt, who wrote the forward for this week’s book, The Canceling of the American Mind by Greg Lukianoff and Rikki Schlott. In fact, I would put Haidt’s…
By: Todd E Henley on February 8, 2024
In the book, Rethinking Leadership, Annabel Beerel said, “Leading in a time of crisis requires multiple skills. These include a calm demeanor, the courage to speak to reality, an ability to find clarity amid chaos, a capacity for deep empathy, and sensitive timing.”1 And we are in a crisis. The crisis of cancel culture. It…
By: Jonita Fair-Payton on February 8, 2024
“Think of the dumbest thing you did as a teenager. Now, imagine if that moment were preserved forever in the permanent record, available for anyone to see.”[1] I am so grateful that social media was not a thing when I was in High School or in college. My high school days were filled with…
By: Daren Jaime on February 8, 2024
As sports fans have their sights on Super Bowl Sunday in Las Vegas this weekend, one of the components that brings heightened anticipation to America’s most watched sporting event is the week preceding kickoff. Everyone, from football die-hards to non-football viewers, finds some way of getting in on the action. Watch parties, food, drinks, and…
By: Chad Warren on February 8, 2024
We got a puppy this week. A routine trip to Walmart resulted in some potato chips, toothpaste, shampoo and a 9 week old Mini GoldenDoodle named Sullivan that we purchased from a nice lady in the parking lot. In light of reading How to Make the World Add Up by Tim Harford I decided to…
By: Christy on February 8, 2024
I’m a data nerd at heart – always have been. When I was a kid, I had to do the dishes as my chore. I would have fun timing myself to see if I could beat my previous record of loading or unloading the dishwasher. Today, I’m still tempted to collect data for household chores,…
By: Cathy Glei on February 8, 2024
“Gone are the days when dumb, insensitive, or offensive teenage mishaps were forgotten or simply disappeared. Their extensive digital record makes Gen Z the most cancelable cohort, and that makes modern adolescence kind of nightmarish. The ever-present threat of being canceled harms friendships, undermines trust, and fosters paranoia. And it’s certainly not helping the record…
By: Jennifer Eckert on February 8, 2024
My professional career was launched at a state-level public health agency where I was part of a small team that led Oklahoma’s anti-tobacco movement. For thirteen years, I worked alongside thousands of allies to collect and analyze data to pass public policies that would reduce tobacco use and improve health. In How to Make the…
By: Jenny Dooley on February 8, 2024
In the early 1980s when I was an undergraduate student at a large state university, I had several unsettling experiences in which it felt unwise to express a different point of view. To publicly disagree, raise alternative perspectives, or refer to my faith was risky. In my naivete I thought university would be a respectful…
By: Akwese on February 8, 2024
In a world where we tend to be either overly suspicious or not suspicious enough of the research and statistics at the core of many of our beliefs, Tim Harford’s “The Data Detective: Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics” offers a solution for how to find a healthy balance where we learn to…
By: Mathieu Yuill on February 8, 2024
Do you have a personal story – or a story of someone close to you who has been on the edge of being canceled? Anecdotally in my world it seems everyone can either tell of a moment they were on the verge of being accused of something or know someone who was accused of something…
By: Elysse Burns on February 8, 2024
As I mulled over Tim Harford’s How to Make the World Add Up, I was transported to my undergraduate classes when I was a naïve business student. Sitting in a business law class, we had just finished the documentary Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room and I felt physically ill from the information learned.…
By: Debbie Owen on February 7, 2024
I had been listening carefully to my spiritual directee for most of the last half hour. Let’s call her Paula. Paula had had a lot of challenges in her adult life. Because of this, she was struggling to think of God as a Father she could trust. She felt like it was always “me, myself,…
By: Chris Blackman on February 7, 2024
The pastor of a mega-church that Nancy and I once attended was a phenomenal speaker (although, with 20 years gone by and seminary under my belt, I would push back on many things he said). The one thing I appreciated about him was that at the end of every sermon, he would look out at…
