seanessay.com The Straight Dope dug up memorable public service vaccine cartoons, … I like how folks back in my home town will say collar bone, and shoulder blade. Leave it to the aloof professionals to say clavicle and scapula. From boyhood, I remember well a public service television commercial, animated, with diseases personified, urging us […]
A University Class as an Oasis in the Desert
seanessay.com (Having passed the 300 essays mark, I’m entitled to do one about me) …It’s up to you, oh future business-world person, what you learn in university,… When I was to become a university student, over the summer before I started, I had to go to the education building and see Sylvia. “You need two […]
What Does Working Hard Mean?
Society always advised me to heroically have a success ethic and to keep on keeping busy. This I never questioned, as I’d rather not be Tarzan but Clark Kent, as in Superman’s Song, “… he would not be caught hanging around, in no jungle scape, dumb as an ape, doing nothing.” (By the Crash Test […]
Old Man Miffed at Young Radical
seanessay.com …that many people will find shocking. If writing down your ideas always makes them more precise and more complete, then no one who hasn’t written about a topic has fully formed ideas about it. And someone who never writes has no fully formed ideas about anything nontrivial… Paul Graham Putting Ideas Into Words November […]
Report From the Trenches on Tariffs
seanessay.com Who can you ask, if you live in the US, about the effect of tariffs? And why do I stress “trenches”? Last week, by way of illustration about “who to ask,” someone posted that our big creative building, C-space, would be closed for both Good Friday and Easter Monday. I responded, “Do you know […]
Purely and Truly in the Arena
seanessay.com I worry about being “good enough” for meeting the writing standards of a mysterious “they,” the authorities in my head—and the standards of my harsh parents, who would today despise my academic clutter and my unmanageable piles of books that aren’t shiny, that don’t fit on my available shelves… As a schoolboy, when my […]