Must Reads
There is so much to read, so much to know, so many sources to follow. And the volume of news and information just keeps growing exponentially. How to keep up? Even more, how to rediscover the serendipity of learning something new and interesting for its own sake?
Here, for your enjoyment and interest, are the articles Temin and Company considers “must reads.” They are primarily on the topics of reputation and crisis management, the media, leadership and strategy, perception and psychology, self-presentation, science, girls and women, organizational behavior and other articles of interest.
They are listed below with the most recent articles first, and to the side, by category.
We hope you enjoy them and would appreciate your comments. And whenever you have any favorite articles for us to add, please let us know so that we might include them for other readers to enjoy.
There is so much to read, so much to know, so many sources to follow. And the volume of news and information just keeps growing exponentially. How to keep up? Even more, how to rediscover the serendipity of learning something new and interesting for its own sake?
Here, for your enjoyment and interest, are the articles Temin and Company considers “must reads.” They are primarily on the topics of reputation and crisis management, the media, leadership and strategy, perception and psychology, self-presentation, science, girls and women, organizational behavior and other articles of interest.
They are listed below with the most recent articles first, and to the side, by category.
We hope you enjoy them and would appreciate your comments. And whenever you have any favorite articles for us to add, please let us know so that we might include them for other readers to enjoy.
How to Create a Secure Password You Can Remember Later: 4 Key Methods
Kevan Lee, Buffer Open, June 25, 2014
We know that creating a safe password is paramount, but how does one actually go about creating and recalling all those essential, random passwords we need? This article’s author shares what he learned on how to create a secure password you can remember. […read more]
What your levels of sensitivity say about you
Scott Barry Kaufman, Salon, May 7, 2015
Do other people’s moods affect you? Do you tend to be more sensitive to pain? You may be a highly sensitive person – someone who tends to have intensified experiences and responses to their surroundings. […read more]
Digital Marketer’s 101 Best Email Subject Lines of 2014 (…and our 10 worst!)
John Grimshaw, Digital Marketer, December 9, 2014
Email is one of your best channels for staying in touch with and engaging customers. If your customers aren’t opening your emails, then you’re missing tons of sales and relationship-building opportunities. This article shares common elements that are found in subject lines and reveals 101 of the best and 10 of the worst email subject lines of 2014. […read more]
Podcasting embraces a new era of cool (thanks, Serial)
Lance Ulanoff, Mashable, August 29, 2015
Video may have killed the radio star sometime in the 1980s, but the podcast Serial seems to have resurrected him. The slickly-produced podcast that, over the course of 12 episodes, reported on and continued the investigation into the murder of a high school student in 1999 and her popular ex-boyfriend, who is in jail for the crime, was an unprecedented success. Serial was both a cultural touchstone and a pivotal moment for podcasts. […read more]
The uses of history
The Economist, August 29, 2015
The 70th anniversary of Japan’s second-world-war surrender has exposed what is almost an obsession with history both in Japan and among some victims of its wartime aggression, especially in China and South Korea. […read more]
Rethinking Work
Barry Schwartz, The New York Times, August 28, 2015
How satisfied are we with our jobs? Gallup regularly polls workers around the world to find out. Its survey last year found that almost 90 percent of workers were either “not engaged” with or “actively disengaged” from their jobs. Think about that: Nine out of 10 workers spend half their waking lives doing things they don’t really want to do in places they don’t particularly want to be. […read more]
India Virtually Eliminates Tetanus as a Killer
Donald G. McNeil, Jr., The New York Times, August 28, 2015
A year after eliminating polio, India has scored another public health victory. Following a 15-year campaign, the country has virtually eliminated tetanus as a killer of newborns and mothers. […read more]
Owen Labrie of St. Paul’s School Is Found Not Guilty of Main Rape Charge
Jess Bidgood, The New York Times, August 28, 2015
The prep school graduate accused of raping a younger student at the elite St. Paul’s School dropped his head and sobbed for the first time since the start of his trial: He had been found not guilty on Friday of felony sexual assault charges, but was convicted of having sex with a girl who was below the age of consent. The accuser sat in the front row, tightly flanked by her family, her father’s hand on her head, her mother’s arm around her shoulders. She cried, too, in the main hall of the drab courthouse here, before stepping out the back door. So ended the trial of Owen Labrie, 19, and with it a rare exploration of the backslapping sexual culture among some students at one of the nation’s most exclusive boarding schools. […read more]
New Math Could Reveal Hidden Sources of Chaos
Tia Ghose, Live Science, August 27, 2015
It’s that point when a smooth river turns into a tumultuous swirl of white water, the tornado that unpredictably changes course on a dime or the wild interactions of three planets under one another’s gravitational pull. It’s chaos. Although most people instinctively know chaos when they see it, there hasn’t been one, single, universally agreed-upon mathematical definition of the term. Now, scientists have tried to come up with a mathematical way to describe such chaotic systems. […read more]
Chinese Banking Giants: Zero Profit Growth, More Bad Loans
BloombergBusiness, August 27, 2015
The first two Chinese banking giants to report earnings this week have two things in common: zero profit growth and bad loans piling up at more than twice the pace of a year earlier. Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd. posted a 31 percent increase in bad loans in the first half, while Agricultural Bank of China Ltd. had a 28 percent jump, their stock-exchange statements showed on Thursday. […read more]