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My favorite books 📚

Montaigne's EssaysHamletThe Secret Chord168 HoursThe Elements of StyleGetting to YesFour Thousand WeeksHarold Kushner booksGeraldine Brooks' booksAlain de Botton's booksA Pigeon and a BoyButcher's CrossingCloud Cuckoo LandCaleb's CrossingEnduranceCrossing to Safety
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I work best as a…

Some mix of execution and strategy. I love doing tasks and the high-level strategy conversations.
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My workplace

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I love being with students and fellow teachers and exploring new ideas collaboratively and creatively. 

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The best environment for me is:

time for deep work in the AMno swiss cheese calendarlots of in person collab
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My core values

AuthenticityBalanceCreativityLearningMeaningful Work
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Favorite work memory

Jeremy Caplan's favorite work memory

This global gathering for journalism educators in Paris was a blast! It was a pleasure getting to meet teachers from around the world and to learn how journalism schools are thinking about the future of our field creatively. 

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My favorite movie

Terms of EndearmentRockyGroundhog DayETRashomonLa La Land12 Angry MenSilence of the LambsBack to the Future
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Things I'd love to learn

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What's in my dock

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10 Tools I rely on for deep work: https://wondertools.substack.com/p/deepwork 

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My happy place

Jeremy Caplan's happy place

I love swans 🦢and I love this pond. Far from the city, it's quiet, serene, and gorgeous. Life moves at a slower pace here, and the swans go about their daily routines with heads held high regardless of whatever chaos is going on in the human world around them. 

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I really admire teammates who are…

It's a pleasure working with people who care about the quality of their work, who are thoughtful about how they do what they do, who listen and pause and collaborate and create and iterate and who are at peace with themselves. 

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I like to get feedback when its given…

1:1with contextwith examples
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I'm energized at work by…

getting sh*t done.solving problemshelping others succeedjam sessions
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Things that deeply motivate me…

Helping others ❤️Getting things done ✅Work to make the 🌎 a better placeBeing my most authentic self 🎨Learning as much as I can 🤓

I like setting and meeting high standards

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You will make my freakin day if you…

private praise / thank you!slack shoutouttake something off my platejam with meshare an idea