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Consider the potential sale of a music college (small) to a Chinese education company. Should we care who owns our educational institutions? Should we care who are the students? Should we permit all educational institutions to be bought by the highest bidder (moving them from being non-profit I assume to for-profit)? What is the role of the accreditors? What recourse do the students/professors/staff have, if any? See: https://lnkd.in/dFm9hRa #educationpolicy …see more

Consider this piece as a statement about the importance of public service. We need quality public servants -- even when things are tough. As the old saying goes, when things are tough, the tough get going.

Are you ready to be introduced to Angels, #VCs , #Investors ? Pitch your #startups here to find out:

"Engagement largely comes down To whether people have a manager who cares about them, grows them and appreciates them." A must-read on how to really inspire cultural change (and it doesn't involve ping-pong tables.)

Connecting with your audience is vital to your business' success. Start by connecting with yourself first.

France transposed the EU’s copyright reforms into a national law that takes effect October 1. There’s only one small problem: Google says, “Non, merci.” Think about this...

Gotta interview Henry Rock , Founder and Executive Director of #Charlotte's City Startup Labs project.

You don’t know Taboola , and according to its CEO Adam Singolda, it doesn’t really know you either — but it does know your digital reading habits really well. And using that, strong compliance controls and a novel platform for consumer content publishers, they are turning the tide on the fake news wave — and powering V.1 of #Android news.  Details: https://bit.ly/2GNF4e1 …see more

Forest is an app that encourages you to stay focused by planting a digital tree that dies if you check your phone before your tree is fully grown. It works!

A special thank you to Lily Sanabria. I hope the discussion on trauma and reopening schools helps many educators and their students. The book referenced is sadly apt: Trauma Doesn’t Stop at the School Door ( https://lnkd.in/eCgEc8J June 2020). Available as ebook and paperback. @Amazon too. …see more

“Nobody will ever want to read what you write at work.” Here are 8 tips to help you get what you need out of your work communication.

With new technology and the democratization of music production comes a new challenge: making sure independent musicians get paid for their work. In theory, it’s simple, Richard Burgess, CEO, A2IM tells me, but there are a lot of factors throwing discord into the mix. Here’s why it’s so tough, and the part that A2IM is playing in helping indie musicians make music, be discovered and get paid, in real time, for their work. …see more

Want to clear your mind? Escape the dark corners of the internet for a bit? A new app called Tonic wants to help find 5 things each day you'll enjoy online. The good stuff you wouldn't have otherwise known existed. Here's how it works.

As a follow-on to this week’s “I believe in science” theme, I will ask you to do three things today.

Did you know that the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic is believed to be responsible for a wave of “sleeping sickness” that Oliver Sacks chronicles in his book “Awakenings”? I learned so much from this interview with neuropsychopharmacologist Dr. David Nutt. …see more

Check out Shantanu Dev from New Jersey pitching http://www.examd.co / to @sramana at #1m1m roundtable for #entrepreneurs : http://ow.ly/h3EF30rdYdu PASSWORD: startup

i am at point where when Facebook espouses a perfectly rational idea i endorse, i become immediately defensive & skeptical. #data #portability #fintech #gdpr #psd2

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up. Benjamin Franklin

The word "transcendent" does not begin to describe this hauntingly beautiful performance by Patti Smith during the Nobel Prize ceremony. The harrowing, elegant lyrics to Bob Dylan's "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" would be challenging enough in any setting, but Smith's vulnerability, and the way she recovered after nervousness, will stick with me. Legends are human, too...I dare you to not be moved.. …see more

2020 has beyond awful in so many ways but lots of us have found a welcome respite from this annus horribilis in video games. Whether you played Animal Crossing: New Horizons, The Last of Us Part 2, Among Us or Hades there's no denying there were a bumper crop of games to play this year. Here's Polygon's top 50. #videogames …see more