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Michael Wolff On *His* Type Of White House Journalism Versus That Of Newspapers

Says the author of Fire and Fury and Siege: Trump Under Fire, “I’ve said many times: I’m not a Washington reporter. And Washington reporters, they do a great job. They do their job. I approached this as, that the more significant factor here, beyond policy, was buffoonery, psychopathology, random and ad hominem cruelties. In a way, my thesis is that this administration, this character, needed a different kind of writer.” – The New York Times

This Man Has To Be Ready To Play Any One Of 14 Roles Any A Given Night

“As what’s known in Broadway parlance as a ‘swing,’ [Angelo] Soriano is paid to master a head-spinning 14 roles, though he is never certain he will go onstage in any of them. With … [injuries,] vacations, and the flu, and the complexities of running a multimillion-dollar Disney show, you need agile replacements who can sing, dance and not trip over one another while brandishing scimitars in one scene, nailing an exuberant nine-minute tap-heavy number the next.” – The New York Times Magazine

‘How The Seuss Stole Graduation’: Why ‘Oh, The Places You’ll Go’ Became A Cliché Gift For Commencement

“For the first generation in U.S. history to do worse than their parents, Oh, the Places You’ll Go is just right: It celebrates young adults’ dreams of escaping from home in the warm embrace of a children’s book they associate with home. … Oh, the Places You’ll Go may not tell us much about the way the world works, but it tells us a lot about how a certain set of Americans wish it worked.” – The Washington Post

Study: How Twitter Might Be Undermining Your Intelligence

The finding by a team of Italian researchers is not necessarily that the crush of hashtags, likes and retweets destroys brain cells; that’s a question for neuroscientists, they said. Rather, the economists, in a working paper published this month by the economics and finance department at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan, found that Twitter not only fails to enhance intellectual attainment but substantially undermines it. – Washington Post

Burnout Is Declared An Official Medical Diagnosis By World Health Organization

“Burnout now appears in the [WHO handbook] ICD-11’s section on problems related to employment or unemployment. According to the handbook, doctors can diagnose someone with burnout if they meet the following symptoms:
1. feelings of energy depletion or exhaustion;
2. increased mental distance from one’s job, or feelings of negativism or cynicism related to one’s job;
3. reduced professional efficacy.” – CNN

Why Boston Ballet Star Kathleen Breen Combes Made A Point Of Moving Into Administration

For the retiring dancer, who’s about to become executive director of Festival Ballet Providence, it was a definite choice: she got a degree and interned in Boston Ballet’s administrative offices when not dancing. “As much as I love being in the studio, I knew that after I stopped dancing, I didn’t want to continue that rigorous in-the-studio lifestyle. … I became very interested in what the art form could offer as a whole, rather than just personally what I could offer as an artist.” – Dance Magazine