#TypeWriterThought FourTwoTwentySeventeen
I hadn’t used my typewriter for a while, so, given that tomorrow is Monday: A Note to my Future Self: The only next step is to take it. Good job. Sincerely, Present me. typed dankleinman […]
Life Lessons
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Community Representative for the Local School Council of Nicholas Senn High School Chicago Public Schools June 2012 – February 2014 (1 year 9 months)|Education • Elected Official: served as Community Representative for the Local School Council of Nicholas […]
Typewriter thought one eight seventeen
Free advice can be costly to those who give it.
A closing thought, to enter 2017: Hope.
This story starts in 2011, when a very proactive, newly-elected alderman, Alderman Ameya Pawar, commissioned me to help establish block clubs in his ward. We agreed that the process should be organic. The answer was […]
Just finished reading: SOUL ON ICE
At the height of my collegiate career, I would read one book and one play each week, writing essays for each. I became engulfed in literature; its theory, its criticisms, its style, and its experience. […]
A Bakery for T-Day, #BuyBlack
I am very encouraged by the responses I received yesterday for my first #BuyBlack post. Thank you for your words, comments, questions, and even critiques. Onward: Tomorrow is Thanksgiving, and here is where I went to pick […]
#BuyBlack
I am making a decision. Starting this Black Friday and through this Holiday Season, I am committing to complete my holiday shopping exclusively at Black Owned Businesses in my city of Chicago, Illinois. This year […]
How to say ‘I’m Sorry:’ Apologizing Professionally.
I was talking with a media and marketing professional months ago, during this past Oscars’ season. A celebrity talk show host made very insensitive and ‘arguably’ racist remarks about an actresses live on TV. The next broadcast, the talk show […]
Communicate like a Pro
Though the concept of empathy might contradict the modern concept of a traditional workplace—competitive, cutthroat, and with employees climbing over each other to reach the top— the reality is that for business leaders to experience […]
The way I see it
My argument states that not everyone has had the same opportunities, no matter how hard they may have worked; and despite equally hard work, not everyone has earned the same.
The way I see it: it is a Wound of History.