Ponder this frog for a moment. This little dude Donkey Konged his way up the brick wall to this perch. Here the tree frog is safe from all but the most industrious bird. Kong Frog can see the world. And when the light is on, it draws insects.The light draws dinner TO THE FROG. Pretty… Continue reading 2021.6.7 The Best Words Weekly Email – Things Are Better Than You Think
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Things Really Are Better Than You Think: Lessons from Factfulness
Cincinnati writer Jack Jose looks at Hans Rosling’s book Factfulness and what Rosling called the negativity instinct. We can learn to see things as they are, which is not always so bad.
2021.5.31 BW Weekly: Surprisingly Normal
Cincinnati author and educator Jack Jose introduces the Bureau of Suspended Objects + the startling comparisons between factories and US classrooms.
I was 51 the first time I worked in a place that runs like an American factory-model school classroom
Cincinnati author and educator Jack Jose examines the parallels between factory work and many American factory-model school classrooms.
Hans Rosling’s Factfulness and How Our Gap Instinct Fails Us
Cincinnati educator and writer Jack Jose discusses Hans Rosling’s Factfulness and describes how our gap instinct fails us. When we think we’re exceptional, we’re often tragically wrong. And we pay the price.
Why a writer hired me, a freelance writer, to write her cover letter
Freelance writer Jack Jose explains why another writer hired him to write her cover letter.