Category: Observations
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Will Unvaccinated Denialists Close Schools This Fall?
Cincinnati writer Jack Jose explores the irony that the unvaccinated people who protested closed schools last fall might be the reason that schools can’t reopen this fall.
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Give the Gift of Memorable Experiences
A few words from his barber changed life for Cincinnati writer Jack Jose and his family. You can learn from this same transformative advice and change your life with experiences.
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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.
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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.
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Get the Name Right (D’ante’s Badge)
Was it just a mistake, or was D’ante’s badge error evidence of something deeper? Cincinnati writer Jack Jose explores the importance of getting a person’s name right.
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The $1,000 Thank You Letter I Didn’t Write
Failing to write a thank you letter cost me $1,000. Learn from my mistake, and write the perfect thank you note every time. It was 1989. I was a freshman in college. I was raised by a single mother who had only gone to college for one semester. She worked as a secretary in a factory…