I am in a bit of disbelief that it is already time to write this newsletter again. The month of August went by quickly. I spent a lot of time driving this month. My kids went to spend a week with my parents in Arizona, and it happened that the weekend when we needed to pick them up was the same weekend in which my husband flew to New Zealand to surprise his father on his 75th birthday. So I made the six hour drive on my own. In the days before podcasts, that might have made me crazy. The drive from San Diego to Phoenix has bits of great beauty (I'm quite fond of Saguaro National Monument, for instance), but I've driven it so many times that it has lost some of its charm.
I loaded up my podcast playlist with more than six hours worth of podcasts and actually enjoyed the drive. Some of the management-relevant podcasts appear in the links below. My absolute favorite podcast from this drive, though, was about a Supreme Court case I had never heard of, but which is one of great importance and which essentially broke two Supreme Court justices: The Political Thicket, from Radiolab's More Perfect podcast series.
On the drive home from Phoenix, and on the drive up to LA to pick up my husband the following week, I had my kids in the car with me. They weren't interested in my podcasts and insisted on the music playlist instead. They both really like an old New Zealand song called Poi E, so that has been stuck in my head for most of August, thanks to repeated listening. There is a great NZ documentary about the making of that song, which we also happened to watch this month. As I watched that documentary, I thought a lot about how you don't necessarily know what your life work's going to be, even quite late in life. It is also a great teamwork story.
In other news: after a long period of dithering about whether or not to offer an online version of a seminar about job searching that I've given several times... I have finally decided to do it. The Navigate the Path to Industry seminar is enrolling now! It is a two hour seminar about how to prepare for and conduct a search for a job outside of academia. The content in the seminar is complementary to the content in my book about job searching, Navigating the Path to Industry (yeah, coming up with names is not my forte, so I reused the name.) Job searching isn't really what I talk about in this newsletter, so I won't belabor the details of the seminar here, but if you or someone you know is in academia contemplating a search for a non-academic job, you might want to check it out.
I do have some classes more relevant to this newsletter, of course. You can see the details of those on my classes page. I have also been dithering about whether to make a recording of my project management class (Better Projects through Better Planning) available for purchase. I am now leaning towards doing that, but I am out of time to make it happen today, so it will have to wait until next week... and the next newsletter.
For now, let's get on to the links!
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