The first-half of 2019 has been a most difficult year as my personal life transitioned through many changes. I won’t go into all that. On top of that has been my work with a heavy teaching load at the university: co-teaching a journalism course on multimedia storytelling design, co-teaching a neuroscience workshop, and teaching a first-year writing course. The last two courses are my first experiences teaching in those areas. The writing course was an 8:30am – 9:30am course while the others were held late in the afternoon. Often, I found myself coming into work before 6am and not leaving until after 6pm. The term was draining but, oddly, energizing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A one-week break followed Winter Term and then our 4-week Spring Term rolled into action during which I taught a course on innovations in publishing. Near the end of Spring Term, I faced almost complete exhaustion (both physically and mentally). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’m having some time to recover now that summer is here. No courses, no students to mentor. I can focus on rebuilding my life and preparing for my fall courses. And, along the way, I have my job at the library but that’s largely now defined around teaching and leading the academic minor in digital culture and information. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
As part of my recovery process, I’m listening to a lot of podcasts. I have some time to do that as I drive up and down the highway. One of the best that I enjoy is The Tim Ferris Show<\/a>. Someday, I’ll write more about Tim Ferris. I’m also picking up again on the a16z podcasts<\/a> from Andreessen Horowitz. Through both of those I’ve come to know about The Moment with Brian Koppelman<\/a>. (I appreciate how Koppelman consistently recognizes his privilege.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n From Tim Ferris, the recommendation list is huge. Perhaps to get started, please listen to one of the following: Tara Brach<\/a>, Sharon Salzberg<\/a>, Maria Popova<\/a>, Jack Kornfield<\/a>. If you only listen to one, I recommend Alain de Botton, How Philosophy Can Change Your Life<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The first-half of 2019 has been a most difficult year as my personal life transitioned through many changes. I won’t go into all that. On top of that has been my work with a heavy teaching load at the university: co-teaching a journalism course on multimedia storytelling design, co-teaching a neuroscience workshop, and teaching a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,16],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1333"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1339,"href":"https:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333\/revisions\/1339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}