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Do you manage/teach with a stick or a carrot? I thought of that question this week while driving past a speed camera. sensibletalk.substack.com/p/leadership...

Leadership lessons from the road

Do the streets in your neighborhood have speed cameras?

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What is Walt Disney World's best roller coaster? And what is its worst? Here is my latest ranking of the roller coasters at the world's most popular theme park resort. www.themeparkinsider.com/flume/202605...

Ranking Walt Disney World's roller coasters, from best to worst

Today is the official opening day for Rock 'n' Roller Coaster Starring The Muppets at Walt Disney World's Disney's Hollywood Studios. I was invited by Disney to preview the ride last week, so today I ...

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Teachers do not teach subjects. They teach people. I was reminded of that lesson this week by an epic new article about NBA coach Steve Kerr. sensibletalk.substack.com/p/how-to-win...

How to win in teaching

Here’s a great read that I would like to recommend – and use to make a point about learning and education.

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All I ask is the strength to be amused when managers and administrators lecture their employees about technology, based on what they heard from salespeople.

The wheat is getting separated from the chaff at some point in the college football business. Just for fun, here's a plan for a 64-team top division that promotes classic rivalries such as USC-Notre Dame, Nebraska-Oklahoma, Penn St-Pitt, and Kansas-Missouri. sensibletalk.substack.com/p/fixing-col...

Fixing college football

Here is my plan to bring back USC-Notre Dame, Nebraska-Oklahoma, Penn St-Pitt, Kansas-Missouri and other great college football rivalries.

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Want another dirty little secret, from a former local government newspaper reporter and political science major? U.S. government elections are rigged. All of them. Here's what to do about that: sensibletalk.substack.com/p/what-to-do...

What to do about rigged elections

Want another dirty little secret, from a former local government newspaper reporter and political science major?

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An evening with Scooby-Doo and the Mystery Inc. crew reminded me how much I miss old-school, in-person experiences in this digital world. I suspect that others feel the same. www.ocregister.com/2026/04/28/n...

Niles: Did Scooby-Doo just help solve Hollywood’s biggest mystery?

The Universal Fan Fest Nights attraction pitting the crime-fighting canine and his crew against classic Universal monsters showed the value of nondigital, old school entertainment.

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Sick of toxic social media feeds? Here is how to bypass the algorithm and see only the voices you want to follow: sensibletalk.substack.com/p/how-to-qui...

How to quit toxic social media

Several weeks ago, I decided that I had had enough with social media.

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