I’m a millennial academic.
As a millennial, I have participated in the entire gamut of online bloggery: Xanga, LiveJournal, Blogspot, Blogger, Tumblr, Wordpress (which is still floating around out there), and the like. As an avid consumer and producer of long-form writing, I love blogging. And with the ubiquity of today’s short-form media, I think that blogging is a lost art form – yes, one that is self-centered and kind of cringe, but an art form nonetheless!
As an academic, writing is a slow process. And this is by design. Papers take years from first idea to publication, and by the time a paper is out, the questions that made it interesting have moved on. Hence, this space is for shorter, half-formed ideas: what I’m reading, what has surprised me, what I’m puzzling over, and random snapshots from my civilian (read: non-academic) life’s rhythms that may or may not factor into my research. All views, of course, are mine and mine alone.
Most of what shows up here will fall into four buckets:
- Research: thoughts, findings, or implications that did not fit into a paper; methods questions I’m still figuring out
- Teaching: what works and what does not in the strategy classroom; working through my ideas about AI in the strategy classroom because we’re all just trying to figure it out
- Practice: lessons from social ventures and the organizations that try to help them out; this is straight from the field, from first-hand interviews and observations, as well as from second-hand sources
- Life: elements of faith, family, friendships, and community – aspects of life that are honestly more important to me than what’s listed above but get much less airtime in professional spaces
As an FYI: I don’t track this site. If you are reading this, I have no way of finding out. If I wanted followers, I would write on LinkedIn or Substack. But I’m mostly writing for myself, and I’m using the general, faceless public as some sort of accountability to get nebulous thoughts articulated into sensical words. If any of it is useful or amusing to you, then that is a bonus! Mostly, I am writing to think.