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Jeff Schechtman

Jeff Schechtman talks with authors, journalists, newsmakers and opinion shapers, and sheds light on the issues of the day, from local stories to national and international headlines and ideas. jeffschechtman.substack.com

news & politics

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24:53

An Idea Whose Time Had Come

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2014/05/03

Few events truly define the complexity of the American experience. Yet the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, comes very close. At its core, it address the founding flaw in the American republic, in taking up the issue of race itself. It incorporates the moral underpinnings and power of religion, faith and morality in the American character. And further, its shows the best in the system of self government, designed by our founders, to allow conflict, and compromise and the better angels

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18:45

You Are Not Special

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2014/05/03

This is the season in which high school seniors start receiving college admissions, and begin the run up to High School graduation. Given that gallons and gallons of self esteem have been poured into these kids, every one of them thinks that they are special. David McCullough, Jr has a bit of a different idea. Those ideas were a part of a High School commencement speech that he gave back in 2012. The YouTube of that speech has been viewed over two and a half million times. David McCullough, Jr

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19:33

Pencils of Promise

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2014/05/01

When we hear the word, or hear about “non-profits,” we often think about organizations that seem like they are fighting the oncoming wave in order to try and do good. Often with noble purpose, sometimes the mission seems too big, the emotional pull too intense, or success too fleeting. Today all of that is changing. We have a whole new group of organizations, perhaps the Gates Foundation being the penultimate example, that look to the ideas and metrics of the for profit world. They realize the

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26:15

The Rise of Superman - Ultimate Human Performance

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2014/04/30

For those who are regular viewers of sports, Olympic level or professional, extreme sports or even golf, you know that what human beings are capable of is constantly increasing. What we are learning, is that the extension of human performance is not just about higher, or stronger, or faster, it's also about the mental component. It's the mental performance we are able to achieve, that makes the physical possible. This has been called being in the zone, or flow. The idea of "flow" has been

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25:34

What is The Confidence Code?

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2014/04/29

In the movie The Talented Mr. Ripley, Tom Ripley, played by Matt Damon, says that, “I always thought it would be better, to be a fake somebody... than a real nobody.” This insecurity, this lack of confidence in who we are, is such a critical part of life, that it has been immortalized repeatedly in movies and literature. But, beyond that, it has real life consequences that go beyond art and definitions in the DMS. For women in particular, this lack of confidence and yes, even our confidence

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24:42

Black Power

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2014/04/28

Donald Sterling and Cliven Bundy notwithstanding, the past year has seen us engaged in a celebration of the passage of the Civil Rights Act, the March on Washington and Freedom Summer. All seminal events in the amazing history of the Civil Rights movement. But what we sometimes forget is that the movement itself, mostly because of its scope and inclusiveness, started a bigger revolution. One that took up opposition to Vietnam, the fight for social and economic justice and the movement beyond

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30:06

Our School: Searching for Community in the Era of Choice

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2014/04/26

It’s always good when we are having legitimate debates about public policy. And when the subject is education, it’s even better. However, amidst all the debate, we should not forget that there are people deeply engaged, every day, in the effort. The children, the parents and the teachers have real experiences that often trump the ideas of policy makers. That’s why it’s so important to look deeply inside the system and see what’s really going on. This is what education consult and researcher Sam

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28:33

How the Rise of Working Women has Created a Far Less...

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2014/04/24

Except perhaps for brief periods of historical time, there have always been cultural divides in America and in the world. Sometimes it’s been about race, or about ethnicity. Sometimes about gender or status. Today, that divide is fueled by education, class and economic attainment. Is it any surprise then, that we have completely shuffled the deck on success and that modern marketing and media reinforce those ideas. Those with means, with college and postgraduate education, have similar goals,

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23:36

A Life Lived in Restaurants

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2014/04/22

For many people, particularly in urban America, restaurants represent the place where they live life. Spending time with friends, memorable meals, socializing and simply being a third place, not home, not office, but an urban extension of their lives. For some, those third places become like songs or great books. Simply mention them and they become triggers of thought that short circuit time and make yesterday's events, today’s reality. That's what Colman Andrews has done with his memoir My Usual

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20:36

Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers

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2014/04/20

There once was a time when technology was sold just to business to help create new and “softer” consumer products. Today, we know there is a mass market for technology itself and it’s often sold directly to consumers. Given that new, particularly disruptive, technology usually begins with a blank page, an audience of zero for products that did not exist, how has the market for these products changed and what’s the nexus with our habits and adoption of the technology itself? Geoffrey Moore’s book

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30:42

All the President's Bankers

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2014/04/17

At this point in our history, it should come as no surprise that the adage “follow the money,” applies not just to tracking down criminal activity, but to virtually every aspect of our economic and political system. In a world where free markets are expanding, where economic and political stability are closely linked, where nations compete for the free flow of money around the globe, where bankers cozy up to leaders and leader cozy up to bankers, sometimes those relationships can be out of

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18:42

How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern...

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2014/04/17

When we talk about drugs, or see the myriad array of pharmaceutical ads, we usually hear about a whole range of unique side effects. These are not just side effects, they are real effects with real medical consequences. This is true not just for the complex, highly marketed drugs, but even from our most basic antibiotics. While we’ve come think of this class of drugs as almost free from consequence, the truth is they may have bigger and more far reaching consequences than the drugs that may cause

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24:53

How to really create a culture of innovation

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2014/04/16

In almost every way, today's workplace is very different than the world of Mad Men. Yet one thing seems to be consistent. The nexus between the culture of an organization and its performance, is direct and powerful. But what constitutes that culture, and how can it be changed? It’s ironic that corporate culture often seems both immutable and fragile. One jerk can seemingly ruin it, and yet CEO’s often spend whole careers trying to change it. How can both be true? We look inside organizational

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30:17

Class, Cultures and Social Movements

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2014/04/15

Progressive and social activists are too often portrayed as latte drinking, sushi eating, Volvo driving, arugula eating, white wine sipping, Birkenstock wearing, NPR listening, New York Times reading, tofu eating…etc. You get the idea. This isn’t just another ordinary line of attack, because what it does, what it means to do, is to drive a wedge between classes. Class groups that often have common goals, shared values, and a true desire to solve real problems. But the attacks often work

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28:41

The making of a monster in wartime: How Torturer Happens

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2014/04/13

The task of bearing witness to war and terror, even for a journalist, is not to reduce events to our own understanding, but by acknowledging and reporting them, to serve both the dead and the living. Thierry Cruvellier has done this as one of the only journalists to have attended the trials of all of our contemporary international war crimes tribunals. Yet few such trials are more powerful than that of a mild mannered math teacher who was one of the principal executioners of the Killing Fields of

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30:03

Money is not what you think it is

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2014/04/13

Few things are more ubiquitous than money. Yet what seems so simple, can often become so complex. Money is far more than just the notes and coins we carry in our pockets. It’s part of a complex system of debits and credits and clearing. Just look at the workings of Bitcoin and you start to see how those notes and coins are really just tokens and symbols that represent a much larger and more complex world of money. That's the world that Felix Martin ushers us into in Money: The Unauthorized

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23:27

Advertising and the Golden Age of Radio OR Everything...

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2014/04/11

During what was once considered the “golden age of radio," from roughly the late 1920s until the late 1940s, advertising agencies were the most important source of radio entertainment. Most nationally broadcast programs, on network radio, were created, produced, written, and/or managed by advertising agencies. For those old enough, you might remember something like Kraft Music Hall, or Maxwell House Showboat. When television came along, again it was the advertising agencies that produced and drove

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23:09

Jared Diamond on Evolution and the Future of the...

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2014/04/10

From High School biology class, to treating the most complex diseases, evolution lies at the core of our existence. Whether we’re trying to figure out world conflict, medical breakthroughs or even what might happen if we encounter alien beings, evolution provides the foundation. Today, with the world moving so rapidly, with technology so much a part of shaping that world, it seems more important than ever, that we all, especially young people, understand our roots, where we came from and what it

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29:44

All Joy and No Fun

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2014/04/09

Think for a moment about how much has changed about life, just in our own lifetime. Everyday there are new ideas or new products that disrupt existing paradigms. Is it any wonder then that parenthood today is very different than in our parents or grandparents time? Where once children were looked at as economic units to the family, today we live in a child centered society, where the rules, the expectations and the impact on parents have all changed. Are we better off? Are we having more fun, are

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22:10

How Paris became Paris

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2014/04/08

Bogie reminded us “that we’ll always have Paris.” Indeed, we will. Paris defines what a city should be. Beyond it’s being a City of Lights, a Moveable Feast, and so many other things, it is a model, the model for what urban life should be. And that’s how it grew up. From a desolate, war torn landscape to one of the first cities to embrace street life, to welcome pedestrians, to be lit at night, to have public gardens and where, as Joni Mitchell said, “they kiss on main

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