When we do our co-working sessions on the Mighty, we always set an intention for how we want to feel while we are doing the work. Today, I’m getting the stories that I am working on for chapter three of my upcoming book ready to be shared with the people who shared them with me. […]
Category Archives: Resources
Online course: Linguistics for Grades 9-12
Please help us get the word out to any highschoolers or parents or teachers of highschoolers about this brand-new resource created by CL Mighty Network member Serena Williams: Linguistics for Grades 9-12! In this 8-week online course, students will engage in the scientific study of various aspects of human language.
Book Review: Taking the Work out of Networking
As we gear up for next week’s networking meetup in San Francisco (am trying out the name Community Connection Events – would love to know your thoughts!) I thought I would share three tips from Karen Wickre’s excellent book. THREE THINGS for you to do at a networking event: Find common ground quickly. If you […]
Book review: Designing Your Life
In their book, Designing Your Life, Bill Burnett and Dave Evans bring “design thinking” to the “wicked problems” of career and life design. Reading the book, I was struck by the parallels between design thinking as defined and explored here and the ways that linguists approach problems, and specifically, how we approach bringing linguistics to […]
Should I stay or should I go? Either way, community is key
Lots that’s great about this book, not least of which that it was written at the same writer’s retreat that I attend (and that included among the list of possible careers is “writing retreat host in rural, VA!”). I really love that the book is designed to be read over five lunch hours – a […]
Book review – Outliers
Now that I have finally gotten around to reading Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers, I see why people have been telling me for years that I should read the thing! The book examines story structure, interrogating our ingrained ways of telling and hearing stories about success (and also failure). The big message: what we take to be […]
Top pages and posts from 2018
It’s that time of year again!! With 2018 drawing to a close, as is our tradition here at Career Linguist, we are taking some time to “look back to look forward,” making some time and space to reflect on this past year and think about what should come next. Without further ado, here are the […]
Call for Applications: 2019 RWJF Culture of Health Prize
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS PRIZE COMPETITION Call for Applications: 2019 RWJF Culture of Health Prize Application Deadline: November 01, 2018, 3:00 p.m. ET PURPOSE: The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Culture of Health Prize (the Prize) recognizes communities that have come together around a commitment to health, opportunity, and equity through collaboration and inclusion, especially with historically marginalized […]
Book Review: What Color is Your Parachute 2018
Every year, a new edition of What Color is Your Parachute? is published, and every summer, I re-read the book and am inspired an reinvigorated anew. Additionally, something different jumps out at me every time I make my way through. This year it is “The Remedy” section, the solutions presented to job-hunters in facing the […]
Book review: How to Be Everything
It’s been a while since we have reviewed a book over here on Career Linguist, but a conversation over on the CL (Mighty) Network today reminded me about how much I appreciated Emilie Wapnick’s book How to Be Everything and I thought I would share some of my thoughts by way of kicking off a summer […]
