{"id":8185,"date":"2015-11-23T17:14:50","date_gmt":"2015-11-24T00:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=8185"},"modified":"2015-11-23T11:20:00","modified_gmt":"2015-11-23T18:20:00","slug":"gnostic-utterings-for-academics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=8185","title":{"rendered":"Gnostic utterings for academics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a period of years, my friend Gwen Knighton had entries in her blog she called\u00a0<em>gnostic utterings<\/em>, which were comments about the world prompted by some-distance-removed events, and to which she appended the warning, &#8220;If you think this is about you, you are probably wrong.&#8221; Each entry\u00a0was a collection of statements she did <em>not<\/em> utter to the people who deserved them. In a different way,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/blogs\/confessions-community-college-dean\">Matt Reed<\/a> is especially good at describing higher-ed issues at some remove, either by time or circumstance, and discussing the general principles at heart. I am far less efficient in time management, and so I will be stealing the privacy-preserving distance of both Knighton and Reed, and the aphorism-length quality of Knighton&#8217;s entries.<\/p>\n<p>Warning: If you think your own actions motivated my writing an item, you are probably wrong. But these are still true.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Find a time to celebrate before you charge up the next mountain.<\/li>\n<li>You are fretting about a process that inevitably invites fretting. You&#8217;re normal.<\/li>\n<li>You are struggling with what requires struggling.<\/li>\n<li>Give yourself a night or two to sleep on the problem. Then move\u00a0ahead, because you can&#8217;t build the rest of your life on facial tissue.<\/li>\n<li>Most of your\u00a0students did not follow <em>your<\/em> path to the classroom. They probably need something different from what helped you thrive.<\/li>\n<li>You are exceeding my\u00a010:1 reality:buzzword limit. Inject more reality or delete buzzwords.<\/li>\n<li>Making more foolish decisions\u00a0will not get you out of your current hole.\u00a0You are not a small country,\u00a0and foolish decisions are not a currency.<\/li>\n<li>Yes, yes, your enemies are conspiring against you. So what did\u00a0<em>you<\/em> do to bring you to this moment?<\/li>\n<li>An effective group is not the same thing as an echo chamber.<\/li>\n<li>If you successfully put that target on your enemy&#8217;s\u00a0back, no one else competent may want the position.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a period of years, my friend Gwen Knighton had entries in her blog she called\u00a0gnostic utterings, which were comments about the world prompted by some-distance-removed events, and to which she appended the warning, &#8220;If you think this is about you, you are probably wrong.&#8221; Each entry\u00a0was a collection of statements she did not utter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-academic-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-281","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8185"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8191,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8185\/revisions\/8191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}