Unofficially Tracie Cantu

Any book recommendations on the topic??

And now your moment of zen.

oh it's going to be a Recession recession

A really good funnel cake might fix me

Agreed! Art is power.
My mom wouldn't even let me stop at the Kent State booth when I was college shopping in the mid 90s. No college that allowed soldiers to kill students would ever be ok with her.

Hang in there, y’all.

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

Just remember: historically the vast majority of technologies entering the Trough of Disillusionment just…disappear.

The Hype Cycle is astrology for business bros. It has no predictive or analytical value.

Good sales tool, though.

For readers who are about to lose care, I have been told that the Trans Youth Emergency Project is helping the families of trans youth contingency plan to access that care.

www.transyouthemergencyproject.org

The old world is dying. The new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters

Doing some cute calligraphy

📚🎁 Reminders for everyone looking for specific books to purchase online as gifts:

1. If you haven't called your local independently-owned book shop, try there first. (If you don't have one, try Bookshop.org)

2. Don't put it off - shipping time for Media Mail can be 12 days. Priority is 5 📦

After episode 1 of Ken Burns' American Revolution, I'm left with two takeaways:
1) The Great American Experiment has been a hot mess since day one.
2) You don't fuck with Boston.

May I recommend a new end of year holiday tradition?

In this season of email onslaught, join me in my annual celebration of The Great Unsubscribing.

Do 2026 you a favor and help unclutter your Inbox!

You didn’t have to hear anybody’s opinion about literally anything unless they were within slapping distance

If sandwich shops don’t start offering a sandwich named “the acquittal” then what are we even doing

From your mouth to every deity's ear!

It’s been said that everyone should work a service job for a year after high school, and I think that’s true but I think it should be a five-year plan including…

- living in another country for a year
- caring for the elderly for a year
- teaching for a year
- surviving as an artist for a year

Black people have been asking this question for a very long time.

Bluegrass
Coal

We don't have the talent! Our nation has let its education system be defunded a little bit more each budget cycle for the past 40 years.

Damn it! Now that song will be stuck in my head for days! And let me tell you people at the grocery store really cast some side eye when ya sing that one up and down the aisles.

Imagine being a political party and not immediately getting on every outlet possible to scream about how the opposition party just got a show with 1.6 million viewers canceled because a president with a 30% approval rating didn't like it.

a man in a suit and tie is sitting in a chair with his hands in the air Alt: Obama is sitting in a chair, gesturing with his hands outwards with palms upraised, a giving shrug, and a head turn that conveys WTH?!?

Well, that was a new one - I wrote overdue and spell check changed it to ovaries. That would have been a really F'd up business email.

Hey if the witches were thinking about maybe gathering in the wood at all, now would be a good time 🤞

No. F#ck heroic. Don't romanticize this. We allow our kids to be killed because our country values the 2nd amendment more than a life itself.

Don’t outsource confusion.

Before you outsource, name the constraint: Capacity/skill/churn/speed/compliance/ETC.

Act strategically, not reactively. Learn more from @thetraciecantu.bsky.social on Modern Learning on the Air.

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#learninganddevelopment #outsourcing

Fiction: Rivers of London Series by Ben Aaronovitch
Non-fiction: "Whose Middle Ages? Teachable Moments for an Ill-Used Past." and "A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Spy Who Helped Win World War II"

Americans spend less time reading for fun and more time on screens: Study Fewer Americans are opening a book for fun each day, with reading for pleasure in the U.S. down 40% over the past 20 years, a new study published Wednesday found.

In response to this, name the last book that you read that you would recommend.

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So the freshman has debilitating social anxiety, to the point she had to do all of 8th grade online last year.

We thought things had gotten better with medication and some therapy.

Day 2 of high school in a new state just showed us how deluded us parents were.

In the original box too!