Critical Success Factors
In my Business Management class we are practicing the identification of critical success factors in various markets. It is a fun exercise, to see what defines success and also how that success can be achieved, but…
Tag: social change
Resistance
One of my courses this semester is on social change. Our first set of readings and class discussion consisted of building a vocabulary, from an ethnographic perspective, to discuss the topic of resistance and change.…
The end of the world
They say that the world will end tonight. No one believes it. We have gotten over prophecies, at least on the cosmic scale. We might throw our tarot cards or cast a few bones on…
Birth Control Thoughts
Every night around eight, for the past three weeks, I began to cower. I consider myself a strong woman, and this cowardice frustrated me. At 8:20 I bravely swallowed the pill. Some nights were good…
Why I don’t REALLY miss Burning Man…
This is an interesting article that I stumbled upon about bringing your Burning Man experience into your real life. Do I miss being in the States? People ask me this all the time, and I…
Whatsoever
A Meta-Vacation along the Black Sea
I originally intended to come to Turkey at the beginning of September. I thought that I would take a train over on the first, and spend ten lazy days doing nothing until I had to…
Will you forgive me?
“They” say that it isn’t a good idea to share the private details of your life on the Internet. Once it is uploaded it is impossible to erase. There is always some hidden cache, or…
The Scream
This morning I woke up and checked my email as usual, and as usual there were a few stories on my homepage with varying degrees of worthiness to actually be called news. The one that…