writing – Embrace the Absurd

From Homer to Ho: Let’s Talk TACs

Two recent posts by Andrew Ho spurred my thinking about Technical Advisory Committees (TACs); specifically, the role that the committees and their members play in our field. Perhaps even more important than their role as advisors, problem solvers, sounding boards, psychometric therapists, and human guardrails, TAC members are storytellers, passing on through oral tradition the key tenets of our field.

The Current Life of A Former Me

Listening to The Life Of A Showgirl while snacking on the last of the Taylor Swift chai sugar cookies I baked for my class and drafting the submission for my 45th college reunion class report, it occurred to me: there’s a lot of similarity between a Taylor Swift album and my class report submissions.