s2e8 — do a turtle roll.
The last dispatch of the Capital Scholars summer: on failure, the turtle roll, and knowing which wave not to climb.
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Between the lines — dispatches, essays, and stories from wherever I am. A serial journal by Blaise Alexander Kern, new post every Monday at noon UTC.
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s2e7 — painful phone calls.
Career Connections at the Foreign Service Institute, and the case for copying a colleague's skill rather than earning it slowly.
s2e6 — rigidity is the enemy of a good habit.
Too much rigidity is the enemy of a good habit: on habit chaining, area habits, and a paper that might outlive the program.
s2e5 — eight hundred fifty-one thousand fireworks.
851,000 fireworks over Washington, watched from the Netherlands Carillon, and the calendar habits that keep appointments.
s2e4 — naïfs and sophisticates.
Naifs, sophisticates and commitment devices: on procrastination, planning tools, and two goals for the second half.
s2e3 — reading in parks.
A month into Washington, on the short-term sacrifices long-term goals ask for, and carrying internship reading to a park.
s2e2 — i started taking the bus.
The shape of a week in Washington: oral briefings, a fifteen-minute policy essay, and a surrender to the bus system.
s2e1 — fifty-one family lines.
A Medal of Honor recipient's fifty-one rescues, a first week of Washington internships, and a book about changing yourself.