Charles Cooney, the Robert T. Haslam Professor of Chemical Engineering at MIT, explains the importance of accepting failure as critical to the learning process. Failure is not fatal, and success is not final. An expert is someone who has made more mistakes than anybody else. A successful expert is someone who recognizes mistakes and … Read more
The title of today’s blog comes from the following quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. For many, including Late Show host Stephen Colbert, the end of our latest “national nightmare” can not come quickly enough. During his live broadcast following Tuesday night’s “State of the Trump” address, Colbert … Read more
I have heard more than one commentator over the last week compare the the raid on an Al Qaeda structure believed to house Yemen terrorist leader Qassim Al-Rimi to the failed Bay of Pigs invasion during the first days of John F. Kennedy’s presidency. The focal point for comparing the two is that both military actions were … Read more
On July 21, 2007, we were first introduced to Mad Men (Liongate Television, 2007-2015). The title refers to the staff of a fictional Madison Avenue advertising agency in the 1960s. Senior partner Don Draper (Jon Hamm) is the central character who struggles with both his professional and personal life when the sanitized world of the 1950s … Read more
Overlooked due to all the other chaos initiated by Donald Trump over the weekend was news that the first official movie screening in the White House theater since the inauguration was Finding Dory . This Pixar animated film, according to IMDB.com, is the story of a memory challenged blue tang who: somehow became separated from her … Read more