Entrepreneurship and MBA Education The first issue of Kaizen for this new academic year features my interview with Jeff Sandefer. I met with Mr. Sandefer in Austin, Texas to discuss his meteoric entrepreneurial career in oil and gas and his ambitious plans for MBA education. Also featured in this issue of Kaizen [pdf] are student […]
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And symphonies discriminate against the deaf. I mocked that view in criticizing last year’s lawsuit against Chipotle: Chipotle Mexican Grill versus egalitarianism. Turns out, though, that it’s cutting-edge civil rights law based on the Americans with Disabilities Act: “Justice Department Settles with Sacramento, Calif., Public Library Authority Over Inaccessible ‘E-Reader’ Devices”. The library had acquired
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I’ll be giving an invited talk at The Representational Art Conference in Ventura, California, from October 14-17, 2012, hosted and organized by California Lutheran University. My talk will include themes from my essay “Why Art Became Ugly,” first published in Navigator magazine and subsequently translated into in German [pdf], Korean [pdf], and Spanish. Other invited
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Megapixels are so last year. Ramesh Raskar’s TED talk on imaging at a trillion frames per second:
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Over the spring and summer I read three enjoyable books, all by first-time authors of fiction. Looking forward to more from them. Pietros Maneos, The Italian Pleasures of Gabriele Paterkallos. A lushly Romantic series of letters by young American poet on an odyssey to Rome — both contemporary Rome and the idealized and historical city
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I learned this week that my Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault will be used this academic year as a textbook in philosophy courses in New York, Canada, and South Africa. How cool is that.
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Over the years I’ve enjoyed and learned from many of Carlin Romano’s articles in The Chronicle of Higher Education. He can do good philosophical reporting. So I picked up America the Philosophical, and I was disappointed. Romano’s thesis is that the United States is a nation of vigorous philosophical activity and — contrary to the
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Subject: Emanation of Zarathustra… Dear Professor Hicks, I’ve noted in your “Overman” piece: “Nietzsche gives a name to his anticipated overman: He calls him Zarathustra, and he names his greatest literary and philosophical work in his honor. “Zarathustra will be the creative tyrant. Having mastered himself and others, he will exuberantly and energetically command and
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